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Cap Spartel Café
& Restaurant
( 0539 93 37 22; Cap Spartel Rd; breakfast Dh22, paninis Dh30)
This restaurant next to the light-
house is popular on weekends. Set in a lovely garden overlooking the sea, it serves good
juices, crêpes both savoury and sweet, paninis and pizza.
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Getting There & Away
Grands taxis from Tangier are the best way of getting to Cap Spartel. A round-trip charter
should cost around Dh200, including waiting time. Taxis leave from the rank in front of St
Andrew's Church (
Click here
)
in Tangier.
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Road to Ceuta
The scenic road from Tangier to Ceuta is worth taking: green patchwork fields, alluring
mountain roads, rolling hills, rocky headlands and good sandy beaches reveal a different
side to Morocco. A complete grand taxi to Fnideq, the town before the border, will cost
Dh250.
The road begins at
Cap Malabata
, the headland opposite Tangier and some 8km from the
city. There is a new corniche with expensive apartments, a golf course and hotels. Here
you'll find the large M'nar Park (
Click here
)
, a great place for children. It has everything
from waterslides to boating, and there's a restaurant with superb views back towards
Tangier.
There's no more development until
Ksar es-Seghir
, 25km further around the coast. This
small fishing port, dominated by the remains of a Portuguese fort, has a new yacht basin
and the beach is popular with locals in summer. Just beyond you'll spot
Tanger Med
, the
massive container facility and ferry port, 48km from Tangier.
The great crag of
Jebel Musa
, one of the ancient Pillars of Hercules (the Rock of Gibral-
tar being the other), rises up 10km or so further on, and views along the pretty mountain
road are spectacular, particularly as there's no development here.
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