Day 7 of the cruise - Tuesday, August 9, 2022 Agadir, Morocco

Today we arrive in Agadir, Morocco, a major city with a population of around 924,000 as of the 2014 census growing from 346,000 in 2004. Based on the Atlantic Ocean as a beach community it boasts a great weather year round with the winter temperature average around 69 degrees Fahrenheit in December and January.

The shuttle bus took us near the city center where several taxis were available for hire. For $25 per person we could get a 3-3.5 hour tour of the city, the Kasbah atop a hill overlooking the city, camel rides, a mosque, a large market with handmade items (120 booths/stalls), a huge market (35 acres), and an old seaside town.

We had a unique tea in the first market and our tour guide/taxi driver had fair English language skills.

The taxi driver took as to a small seaside town. When we were ready to leave there was a very irate woman who demanded our taxi driver take her as a passenger. She shouted she had been waiting over an hour for a taxi and none would take her and she was there first.

Eventually a policeman had to be called to sort things out. What she didn’t understand was most of the taxi drivers she saw where carrying passengers from the ship and had been hired for hours. Until that was sorted out she stood behind our taxi and argued with our driver and the others so we could not back up and leave; fun in Morocco.