a weekend in africa...

so Emma and I went to the airport to pick up my friend Rachel and then we all met at the bus station to grab a bus to Tarifa, the southernmost point in spain. Well turns out that there are only two busses a day that come close to going there, and then next one was at 9 at night. we then decided to take the train down, which took us to San Fernando, still a two hour taxi ride to Tarifa, and we had five people, an illegal number to fit in one taxi. We luckily got a taxi van to take us and spent the next day lounging on the beautiful beaches of Tarifa. On Friday morning we got up with all of our stuff and hopped on the ferry over to Tangier, Morrocco. We forgot to get our passports stamped on the voyage and then had to get back on the boat, wait for half an hour before finally leaving and getting heckled by a hoard of taxi drivers all wanting to take us to our mountain city of Chefchaouen. we finally arrived in chefchaouen which is a beautiful city in the moroccan mountains, found a hostel for suuuper cheap, and spent the day walking around looking at artisania. we met two moroccan boys who showed us around, and then we realized that we would have to pay them for it, but we got henna tattoos and saw a waterfall and then that night we went to this rug shop where we got the most amazing moroccan mint tea and learned a little arabic while drinking it!! the next day we swore off all 'guides' and spent the day wandering the beautiful blue streets and buying gifts. we went to a little castle there and fought off the rain and oddly cold weather. sunday morning we had the whole trip home planned out, we got up and ate a cheap breakfast, grabbed at taxi to Ceuta, the spanish owned port, and then took the ferry from there back to Algeciras where we would catch a night bus arriving in Madrid at 7 am. the problem arose when we got to the Algeciras bus station and caitlin got a call saying that her friend's flight wasn't on tuesday but was on monday, at 8 am, and the bus we were planning on taking was full. we then took a bus to sevilla where we had a bit of an adventure and took the next bus home. the transportation wasn't the best but the places we saw were amazing! i'll add pictures as soon as i can!