Ferry from Algarve to Africa

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Ferry from Algarve to Africa

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Does anyone know if there are ferry links from the algarve to north africa , like Tangiers or somewere? If so how long is the crossing?
I know there is from Spain.
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Also Gibraltar. Best bet
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From Tarifa. Run every couple of hours. Takes 30min
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Hi, were is Tarifa and were do they sail to please?
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Al Garb, many thanks for that. not sure how far into spain tarifa is.

It's hard to believe that portugal ( Algarve ) has no sea links to northern africa!! Or is it?
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Post by Misty »

Tarifa is very close to Gibraltar.

http://www.directferries.co.uk/tarifa.htm
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There are plenty of fast small boats that come to Algarve from Morocco but it is usually at night and you have to help haul the cargo ashore a bit sharpish :D
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cough cough, splutter splutter. good stuff - yes.
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Post by lizzieh »

You can also fly from Gibraltar to Morroco, its about a 15 minute flight and is the shortest international flight in the world or at least it used to be. Liz
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