MOROCCO'S FAMOUS BEACH DESTINATION! 🇲🇦 AGADIR

good morning everyone, once again here from morocco. we've just arrived in agadir which is the famous resort city of morocco. i think it's the most famous beach destination in morocco. so we came here from tagazu, pretty packed bus. yeah we got the local bus and it was 7 dirhams per person. i think the taxi would have cost like 300 or something which is like 30 euros. that's a big difference so that's why we decided to get the bus. it wasn't too bad though. no it was like 30 minutes as well so not that bad. we've had worse buses in rio. yeah in brazil. we're used to packed buses. so already the moment you get off the bus you can see big hotels here, since it's a big resort city. there's a casino over there and there was also a nightclub here, so very different vibe tagazu where we were in the last video is just like a sleepy fishing surf town on the coast so it's going to be very different. and this area here is the corniche, a nice big walking area loads of cafes and restaurants on the side. seems to be mainly a public beach but they do have some private areas, i guess that this belongs to the cafe over there. man that is one wide beach. yeah it is, it's a lot different to the beach in tagazu as well. yeah the beach in tagazu are nowhere near this wide, this one's massive. so at the end of the beach back there there's a marina too that's supposed to be really nice and you can also see a fort on the top of that hill so that's where the old city, the original city of agadir would have been. so we're planning to go there also later on it is a weekend today so i guess there's more locals around, i don't see locals around this part here. so i don't think we're going to be doing any swimming here, it is pretty ice cold the water we've been going in but with a wetsuit when we've been surfing, not really that many people swimming around here, only a few. so we just saw the weirdest thing ever, some guy was swimming in his swim trunks, i think he's a european, tall white guy and then he comes out and then he just gets completely butt naked, like completely naked in front of local women too, like local muslim women. probably the craziest thing i've ever seen and it was just to switch out from his trunks and put swimming shorts on but obviously you can't do that here. i mean we've seen it a on a public beach. yeah we've seen that in portugal and the portuguese people, the locals they also find it weird but i think it's maybe it's a german thing, somebody told me that for germans that's just normal. yeah basically when they get out of the water it seems they want to remove the swimwear and kind of change what they're wearing for the beach. yeah i think they have two types of swimwear but i don't know it's not normal for everybody. yeah so luckily the local women were actually just kind of laughing, i think they were still in shock though, they were like what the hell? but depending on the people that were around i think they'd got a bit of a different reaction yeah i can't actually believe that the guy did that just now. but here in the tourist destinations it's actually normal to wear a bikini from what we read before and from what we've been seeing. yeah apparently the locals don't wear bikinis but foreigners can wear, it's just fine we saw many foreigners in bikinis, more in tagazu but also here we see and it's just fine, not a problem yeah so from our travels that just changes depending on what muslim country you're in, we've been to some i think like oman where there's just no chance, we even went to places in oman where i wasn't allowed to wear a t-shirt, i had to hide my elbows and my knees but then you can go to other places like malaysia and stuff where they have many beaches where it's normal for women to wear bikinis so yeah it just depends, you just gotta read up before you go to the places to make sure you're not being disrespectful or anything, that's it. now we're heading into the marine area, looks like a bit of a rich area i don't know if these are apartments pretty fancy looking buildings though. it's a pretty nice marina though, actually reminds us a lot of the marinas that we see in the algarve in portugal. some places around morocco actually remind me a bit of portugal, you got the palm trees, over there they also have like the olives and orange trees things like that, quite similar. they also have like the orangey rocks here yeah and the the constructions are kind of similar to the algarve, not too tall. be a good place to have a fishing rod here, like millions of fish here. they also have the gigantic seagulls there like you get in the algarve, they're like seagulls on steroids, they seem to be the exact same type and you have surfing in the algarve too so yeah it's just very similar but also completely different in many ways too. so just like many international beach destinations you get all different kinds of food options here, some pizzerias. we might actually go for indian food, we've been eating moroccan food every single day. and it's also easier to find alcohol around here, there's some places in morocco that don't have any alcohol at all i think in tagazu there's only a few places that would sell alcohol. so as i mentioned in the previous video, first i thought that we were going to stay here instead of tagazu but one of the things that i didn't like about this place was that the hotels or the reviews were always complaining about the noise from the bars and the discos. the nightclubs. yeah now we can see why, because there are so many bars and nightclubs around here. yeah that's a nightclub there. but if you want to party i think this is a good place to come. yeah it seems like it. i think many people from the uk come here to party and get drunk. some other places that you can visit looks pretty cool, won't be making it there on this trip. paradise valley. so the restaurant is bollywood pakistani indian restaurant. so it's right on the beachfront, the walkway. so as always we'll go with the papadums, we love that. at the indian place it's 30. i might get two samosas too meat samosas 55 and we always get a naan too, plain naan is 15. and then i might go for my favorite the chicken tikka masala 125. what are you thinking of? chana masala. chana masala? yeah my favorite. and that is 85, so delicious. yeah i love this. yeah the spreads are all great and i didn't realize the samosas were going to be so massive, look at the size of that they're usually small aren't they? yeah. so the feast has arrived, there's my chicken tikka masala it also comes with rice in that price, big dish of rice and then yeah you got the naan breads here just a nice amount of spice, that's always difficult when we order indians because sometimes you say mild and then it comes with like no spice at all or sometimes you can say mild and it's still super spicy. yeah it's hard to get the right amount of spiciness. that we can handle but this is pretty good isn't it? there's a little kick there. perfect yeah. just a good amount for us come to the medina now of agadir and it's pretty cool that in the middle they have the game going on, morocco are playing in the afcon, the african football cup, big screen in the medina everybody is excited for the game. yeah they're all watching. so already at the entrance it looks incredible here, it was 40 dirhams per person to come here. we got a local taxi here, they do the meter, i think it was only like 23 to get here so not much at all. it's been pretty quiet in agadir so far, i mean we have seen tourists but not that many really, i thought we'd see a lot more this place seems pretty empty, barely anybody here. so the original medina was destroyed in 1960 by a big earthquake that they had here, it actually destroyed the majority of agadir i think a third of the population died, around 15 000 people, so really really bad earthquake and some of you might know that morocco just had another bad earthquake recently it seems like they have a hard time with earthquakes around here big amphitheater. yeah they're like having something here maybe at night i don't know some kind of event. yeah it looks like they have speakers, microphones, even big cameras. oh yeah some sort of show here going on. yeah literally everywhere you look in this place looks amazing so this was built in 1992 so it's not an old one but obviously they've made it look like an ancient medina. in a way it actually looks nicer than a lot of the medinas that you can visit, the real medinas because everything's kind of perfect, the designs. even got the medina cats like in marrakesh. the cows already took a hundred photos. yeah everything's so beautiful. yeah so sunday is probably not the best day to come because there's loads of restaurants here but they seem to be closed. it looks like the rooms were really beautiful where the restaurants are i'm not sure if it's like that on saturday too, i have to read about it. so i ended up going for a coffee 20 dirham. okay i've got some orange juice 18 dirham. nice and quiet now, it's halftime so they put it on pause. and we've been to some reconstructions like this before in dubai and abu dhabi but this one is way way nicer, way more picturesque so we're gonna head up to the fort now and you can actually get there by a cable car that good french? yeah. dania land, so that's cool because i always like getting on the cable carts yeah so it's 120 per person, she said we could also get a private one for 800 overall but it's private anyway because nobody's here. i think the other one had some fancy stuff. yeah the cabin was better, they had like wi-fi inside the cabin. and lounge access before i don't know but we don't want that. also on the way back from the medina we got a different taxi this time called gran taxi and it's not meter it's like a fixed price so this one was 70 so a lot more expensive than the smaller taxi that we got for, the orange one. so if you're on a budget go for the the orange taxis, the meter taxis. we were going to get the petit taxi which is the small one but there was none available. yeah there was none waiting. yeah so we had to get the bigger one more expensive. so that was a really smooth ride to get here, might actually be the smoothest cable cart that we've ever been on. and definitely the best place to come for views of agadir, that was the beach we were on, got the marina here and this is a fishing port, i think it's the biggest fishing port in morocco. and this is the casbah, the fort where you had the the old city, also reconstruction because of the earthquake, unfortunately it destroyed this place too. so the original one was from the 16th century, so really old, one of the first settlements around here. here they have some images before the earthquake and after the earthquake, you can see the difference, all damaged oh yeah so that was before. yeah it's completely destroyed in this one, like collapsed everything you can see in the photo once again before the earthquake it was like the minaret of a mosque but i think everything got completely flattened inside. so i was just reading on google maps about the reviews of this place and apparently the earthquake of last year 2023 affected the inside of this place and that's why you cannot go inside anymore. but before i think one year ago you could go inside so maybe in a few months it will be open again. yeah i guess they're repairing some things would have been cool to see how it is on the inside, seems to be a nice walkway along the outside though at least. it's kind of worth coming up here just for the views anyway so even at the back of the casbah you can still see some of the walls down there so i guess it would have been protected at the bottom too. and i read that before this was built there was actually a portuguese settlement here, the portuguese had settled here in the 1500s and they also had some sort of fort here at the bottom so there was a time where both forts were here and then eventually the locals here conquered the portuguese and they all fled so in the reviews this is another one of the places that it says that the vendors are a nuisance and they keep bothering you but once again that just hasn't been happening to us at pretty much nobody spoke to us and we think that might be because of carol. yeah i think they think i'm moroccan maybe and i've had a few people come talk to me in arabic and also even here at the cable car station the lady asked if i was moroccan because i would get a better price but i said i'm not moroccan but she said i look moroccan so maybe they don't bother me as much bother us as much because they think i'm moroccan. yeah they think you're a local. yeah. yeah it's really happened a lot like people at the hotels have thought carol was moroccan when we were going to hand over our passports and stuff so you do kind of look moroccan though, you look similar to the locals. yeah that's cool. so we're back in tagazu now, we ended up coming back by taxi it was 1.50pm and this is the beach in front of our place where we're staying back there never actually seen it so low tide so far, been here quite a few days never had this much beach area. i think every time we had a drink and ate at these places this was just covered in water yeah the tide is extra low but i think that means that it's going to be extra high so we're going to sleep with the sound of the waves even stronger. that's good. yeah. there seems to be way more people on the beach here too today maybe because it's a sunday. the beach is not usually this busy. overall i'm definitely glad that we decided to stay in tagazu though over agadir oh yeah yeah we like the tagazu a lot more than agadir, it's mainly because of the vibe very laid back and relaxing so it's our type of place. it also seems a bit more authentic i guess the buildings, i just like the layout overall. so that's going to be it for this video, we actually have two more days here but we're not really going to be doing any filming, just going to do some work on the laptop and hopefully learn to surf a bit more. hopefully the waves are good for us to try surfing over the next two days. and in the next video we're going to be in ezewiren which is another very popular destination here in morocco, so if you like this video just drop a like as usual to support us, subscribe to see more videos like this, follow us on instagram and facebook and we'll see in the next one