Plains, Trains, and Automobiles…and Boats

We took the senic route from Morocco to Egypt. We left Chefchauen around 2 pm one afternoon on a three hour bus ride to Tangier, the clossest city in Morocco to Spain, where we would catch a train to Casablanca. By the time we got to Tangier the only train leaving for Casablanca that day was the sleeper train that would depart in 3 hours. We took a cab to a café on the northern tip of Tangier which overlooked the Straight of Gibralter. From the terraced seating we could even see Spain in the distant fog. We relaxed and watched a beautiful sunset before heading back to the train station and were on the way to Casablanca at last.


From Casablanca, we flew to Spain, where we connected on a flight to Cairo. From the Cairo airport we went directly to the train station where we took yet another night train, this one to Luxor. In Luxor we boarded our Nile cruise. After 48 hours of travel we were ready for a few nights of relaxing on a five star ship.