Chefchaouen eSIM

Getting into Chefchaouen

• Mountain road access through the Rif from Tetouan and Ouazzane
• CTM coach, Tangier city to Chefchaouen (TNG), about 150 minutes
• CTM coach, Rabat to Chefchaouen, about 360 minutes
• Strait of Gibraltar crossing to the Tanger Med passenger port, about 45 minutes

Worth knowing about Chefchaouen

• Chefchaouen has no airport of its own and sits at roughly 600 m in the Rif mountains, between Tetouan and Ouazzane, so arrival is always by mountain road.
• The airfield with scheduled service closest to the region is Tetouan's Sania Ramel (TTU), which flies to Barcelona, Brussels, Madrid, Paris and Amsterdam.
• Tangier Ibn Battouta (TNG) is the other international airport serving northern Morocco, offering only bus and taxi ground transport from the terminal.
• CTM lists Tangier to Chefchaouen as 112 km and 2 hours 30 minutes on average, with more than four departures a day, the first at 08:15 and the last at 20:15, from 55 dirhams.
• CTM lists Rabat to Chefchaouen as 254 km and about 6 hours, with more than 11 departures a day, the first at 05:30 and the last at 15:00, from 135 dirhams.
• CTM states that apart from a private car the coach is the only way to reach Chefchaouen without changing en route, because there are daily direct services from the big cities.
• CTM sells tickets on ctm.ma, at its own agencies and bus stations, and through partners M2T and Mazma. It says printing the e ticket is not necessary, so a phone screen is enough.
• Onboard wifi is not standard across CTM. Free wifi and USB sockets at the seats are listed only for the CTM Premium range, which also has its own boarding lounge.
• CTM shows the Tangier to Chefchaouen line running its CONFORT range, whose listed equipment is reclining seats and air conditioning only, with no wifi and no USB sockets.
• CTM says its agency boarding halls are fitted with electrical sockets and benches, so the station is where you charge before the Rif mountain leg.
• Moroccan operator inwi states that identifying a mobile line in the holder's name is mandatory under the regulations in force, and requires a copy of an identity document.
• Orange Maroc names three documents it accepts to identify a line: the national identity card, a residence card, or a passport. A visiting foreigner uses the passport.
• The Tanger Med passenger and vehicle port has annual capacity for 7 million passengers and connects to six European cities across Spain, France and Italy.
• Tanger Med states the Strait crossing takes under 45 minutes and that the port sits on a multimodal network of rail, motorway and expressway links into the rest of Morocco.
• UNESCO describes Chefchaouen as an aspiring Global Geopark of 42 sites of geological significance, sitting inside Talassemtane National Park and the Intercontinental Biosphere Reserve of the Mediterranean.
• Chefchaouen was founded in 1471 and had 46,168 residents at the 2024 census. It is the seat of Chefchaouen Province in the Tanger Tetouan Al Hoceima region.

Sources for this page

• en.wikipedia.org
• ctm.ma
• ctm.ma
• tangermed.ma
• en.wikipedia.org
• en.wikipedia.org
• ctm.ma
• ctm.ma
• ctm.ma
• inwi.ma
• orange.ma
• tangermed.ma
• unesco.org

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