Tarifa Travel Blogs

:) A little hard to find... not on many maps but worth the search... Windsurfing, beach parties, friendly horses and cows (and bulls?!) on the beach, camping, awesome place!!!

I arrived in Algeciras before dawn and decided to head straight to Tarifa to see an old friend--a Mexican fellow married to a Spaniard.  Took a bus on a twisty road under the shadow of hundreds of giant windmills (not the Don Quixote type, unfortunately).  There location is no coincidence…

When we disembarked in Tarifa and found out that we would be stuck there for most of the day I was upset.  I didn't know a thing about the own and we would have to find something to keep ourselves entertained.   We started by walking out of the Port and wandewr into what seemed…

Europe's Kitesurfing Mecca....I caught a 4 quid ryan air flight from London and arrived in Jerez in Andalucia Spain... As i'm still technically a "backpacker" my hire car (necessary for getting around kiting locations in tarifa) had to double as my accomodation to keep the budget under control. So …

Tarifa is a surf town. Or more correctly, a kite surfer town. There are dozens of surf stores selling the latest in hip surf gear. The old town of Tarifa is littered with small narrow alleys and back ways, where getting lost is easy. The highlight of this smal town is the long beach. At one end yo…

Typical spanish food, nice weather, and wonderful travelmates!

I loved it !! it was great .. fly to Malaga, rent a car or take the bus, you can hitchhike in tarifa. going out in tarifa is great aswell. it still has that surf vibe but also very hip places you can go out. surfing there is an onther story, you need to be a good surfer to surf there due to the wind. but the great thing about tarufa is that it has various spots you can surf if the wind is coming from a different direction! GO THERE YOU "LL LOVE IT !!

Fin de semana disfrutando del viento.

Great summer/fall, nice people and lots of whales and dolphins

I was standing at the Frontier Point of Europe I had already decided that I had to visit the most southern point of Spain; Tarifa. It turned out to be some 45 km from the Frontier Point but it ended up to take the most of two hours to get there mainly because of the border control in to Spain again…

Seville is to be our next stop and the weather is great.  Travelled by minor roads to Faro and note that the developement of the coast has gone onto steriods.  Massive appartment blocks under construction with cranes dotting the landscape like something out of a science fiction novel…

My initial thoughts on riding along a Spanish beach were mixed, as despite the fact that it sounded pleasant, I couldn’t shake the image of riding a flea bitten mule along a dirty beach, as can be found in any seaside resort in Britain. What I found however was altogether different. We saddled up…

some r&r in the south of spain, to partying it up in madrid for europride, and day trips to historic cities in central spain. (pix only. words might come later.)

Tarifa est assez surprenante; une ville de surfeurs qui detonne du reste de l.espagne. Il n.y a pas grand chose a faire la bas; attendre le traversier pour se rendre au Maroc. C;est assez etonnant de voir combien la cote du Maroc est pres de l;espagne: Paul et moi avons rencontre deux autres austr…

The big day: The day of the beachride. We had an early breakfast and went by car and the horses by truck to the atlantic coast. It took about 2 hours to get there. We rode for about 2 hours on the beach to a village: Zahara. There we tied the horses and had lunch at a hotel. From there we …