I absolutely loved Tangier, although it's hard to explain why. Instead of trying to explain exactly why I liked it so much in one post, I'll probably just try and post a number of smaller things that I did and liked.
We spent about an hour at the American Legation Museum and it was awesome. Morocco was the first country to officially recognize the U.S. as a country, and we got to see the first official recognition of the U.S.! Cool stuff. After taking this picture I was told I couldn't take any more pictures (but he didn't make me delete this one), but we also saw an original George Washington letter to the Sultan of Morocco. He (Washington) had really nice handwriting. Also, we saw a hilarious letter from some Department of State employee who was responsible for telling the Moroccans that George Washington could not accept a gift of two lions. It was a 3 or 4 page letter detailing to his boss how hard he tried to tell the Moroccans that the President could not accept a gift of lions. Then his Moroccan counterpart wanted to give the lions to Congress, but again he said no. Then his Moroccan counterpart asked him who founded the government, to which the guy said "The People," so the Moroccan said, "Well let us give the Sultans [i.e. the people] of America this gift," so I guess they just let these two lions loose on the streets. I was sort of unclear on how the story actually ended, but this guy detailing his plight was hilarious.
Then at the end we talked to the director, an American, with whom we had a nice conversation.
We spent about an hour at the American Legation Museum and it was awesome. Morocco was the first country to officially recognize the U.S. as a country, and we got to see the first official recognition of the U.S.! Cool stuff. After taking this picture I was told I couldn't take any more pictures (but he didn't make me delete this one), but we also saw an original George Washington letter to the Sultan of Morocco. He (Washington) had really nice handwriting. Also, we saw a hilarious letter from some Department of State employee who was responsible for telling the Moroccans that George Washington could not accept a gift of two lions. It was a 3 or 4 page letter detailing to his boss how hard he tried to tell the Moroccans that the President could not accept a gift of lions. Then his Moroccan counterpart wanted to give the lions to Congress, but again he said no. Then his Moroccan counterpart asked him who founded the government, to which the guy said "The People," so the Moroccan said, "Well let us give the Sultans [i.e. the people] of America this gift," so I guess they just let these two lions loose on the streets. I was sort of unclear on how the story actually ended, but this guy detailing his plight was hilarious.
Then at the end we talked to the director, an American, with whom we had a nice conversation.
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