Ouezzane 20 1½
Rabat 85 5
Tangier 40 3
Tetouan 20 1½
Other companies run a number of cheaper services to the same destinations, including a daily
departure for Oued Laou (Dh30, 1½ hours).
Taxi
The fixed price for a grand taxi from Tangier airport to Chefchaouen is Dh600, and from Tanger
Med Dh500. Unless you can find several people to split the fare with you, it is far cheaper to go
to Tangier first, then hop to Chefchaouen via Tetouan. Even if you buy two places, you will save
over Dh500 and add less than an hour.
Grands taxis north leave Chefchaouen from just below Plaza Mohammed V. Most just run to
Tetouan (Dh30, one hour), where you must change for Tangier or Ceuta – direct taxis are rare.
From Ave Allal ben Abdallah you can catch a grand taxi to Dar Ackoubaa (Dh6, 20 minutes)
from Ave Moulay Abdesalam, the junction for Oued Laou.
Grands taxis headed south gather below the central market. Catch one to Ouezzane (Dh30,
one hour), where you can pick up onward transport to Fez and Meknès. There is very little
transport heading east to the coast. The best option is to take a grand taxi to Dardara junction
(Dh8, 15 minutes) or Bab Taza (Dh15, 30 minutes) and hope for the best from there.
Getting Around
Chefchaouen’s 37 blue petits taxis congregate on Pl el-Majzen and near the market. They’re
unmetered; most fares shouldn’t top Dh10. The safe and convenient Hotel Parador car park (Pl
el-Majzen; per night Dh10) can be used by nonguests.
Chaouen Car ( 0539 98 62 04; Ave Hassan II) A couple of doors away from Preference
Voyages, this agency rents cars and also organises 4WD trips and quad bikes.
Ouezzane
POP 53,000
Ouezzane is a scruffy industrial town with little to offer the traveller, although the medina is
being ungraded. It might be unappealing, but Ouezzane is the home of the popular Ouazzaniyya
Sufi order, as well as being the centre for Riffian jellabas, the thick woollen, striped, sleeveless
garments with colourful pompoms on the shoulders.
The centre of town is a large triangle known as Pl de L’Independence. There are a few
restaurants and rough hotels across the street, and behind them, the medina. Uphill there are
several streets that form a commercial area, with numerous stalls, which are worth a walk
around. The green mosque here has an interesting octagonal minaret.
There is no reason to stay here unless you run out of petrol. Police checkpoints are common
both entering and leaving the town. There’s no alcohol available in the town.