Ferry boat from Tarifa, SP to Tangier, MO

We woke early in Algeciras, SP and left our hotel as we had to still travel to Tarifa, SP to catch the ferry.

Unfortunately we were doing this crossing one day later as we were not able to cross yesterday due to high winds (up to 100 knots) on the straight of Gibraltar. The boat was very full and it took them more than two hours to load it so we left one hour later than expected.

As we waited, we had the opportunity to start knowing better the participants in our trip.

Going up the ramp was not easy as there had been lots of traffic and it was damp. I did not see it but heard that one of the bikes of a previous group went down. Our group made it fine but there were some white knuckles.

The bikes were packed like sardines on the boat.

Some pictures of the Spanish side

Picture of the crossing

Some pictures of the Moroccan side. It was now starting to feel real.

Immigration in the boat was bit crazy as there was a line that took over one and half hours to get through. The crossing was 45 minutes so people had to be on the boat way after it had docked. Moroccans do not like standing in line and towards the end of the trip we had a number of them literally pushing in towards the front of the line. Some pushing a shoving for morning exercise was in order.

We then lined up for customs which took a very long time. Lucky for us it was great weather, sunny but not hot.

We finally made it out of customs and started our trip south. We had over 400 kms to do and it was already past 1pm. It was going to be a long day (at that stage we had no idea though how long).