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Morocco Day 2: Chefchaouen, The Blue City

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The next city we visited was Chefchaouen (Chaouen for short), Morocco's famous "Blue City."  The city is located among the Rif Mountains, and gets its name from the shape of the mountain tops. Said mountain tops resemble two goat horns or " ichawen " (chaoua) in berber. It was surprisingly cold, and unfortunately raining almost the whole time we were there, but we still had a great time. The Blue City! Our bus left Tangier at around 12nn, but we couldn't do much in the morning as it was raining. We chilled a bit in our hostel, and then left after 11 to walk to the bus station (thankfully it was only drizzling a bit by this time). At the bus station we bought some snacks and lunch, then boarded the bus and were on our way. We had a pit stop at Tetouan, which we originally thought was just for dropping off and picking up passengers, but we seemed to be stationed there for quite some time. Almost 45 minutes later, we were told that there was something wro