hours), Oudja (Dh180, nine hours, three daily), Tangier (Dh95, four hours, eight daily) and Taza
(Dh111, five hours).
Getting Around
Bus Some useful bus routes (Dh4) are listed below:
Buses 2 & 4 Ave Moulay Hassan to Bab Zaer, for the Chellah.
Bus 3 Rabat Ville train station to Agdal.
Buses 12 & 13 Place Melilla to Salé.
Buses 17 & 30 From near Bab al-Had to Rabat’s gare routière via the map office; 17 goes on
past the zoo to Temara Beach.
Bus 33 From Bab al-Had to Temara Beach.
Taxi Rabat’s blue petits taxis are plentiful, cheap and quick. A ride around the centre of town
will cost about Dh15 to Dh20. There’s a petit-taxi rank near the entrance of the medina on Ave
Hassan II and at the train station.
Tram The tramway system links Rabat with Salé and serves stations across the city. The fare
is DH7.
NORTH OF RABAT
Salé
POP 500,000
Still a long way from its lively counterpart and old rival on the other bank of the Oued Bou
Regreg, Salé is a quiet and traditional kind of place, where time seems to have stood still. But
all that is about to change with the massive project to bring the city into the 21st century that
was about to be completed at the time of research: the new tramway, new bridge and a new
development with apartments and shopping malls.
The centre of Salé feels more like a typical Moroccan village with its narrow alleys, old
medina houses and beautiful monuments, but beyond it lies a sprawling town with characterless
apartment buildings, mostly home to Rabat commuters. People are noticeably more
conservative here, and the dress code is a lot tighter.