Riad Alkantara
24 Oued Souaffine, Fes
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Riad Alkantara Fes

24 Oued Souaffine Fes, Morocco

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Last Stop: Fes (by Vienna)

A travel blog entry by kuhnglobaleyes

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... satellite dishes. (Apparently a satellite dish is a staple of every Moroccan household!) The variety in the medina was incredible. Every time we turned a corner, there seemed to be another specialized area of the market, specific to only one thing, like keys, for example!

In addition to walking around the souks, our guide brought us to a few cooperatives, including a tannery co-op, rug co-op, silk co-op, tile co-op, and even an antique co-op! My mom ...

Frantic Fes

A travel blog entry by mark.wilson

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... shower, we packed our bags and went to bed.


23rd May 2011

Started the day with yet another 4AM call to mosque. We both dozed for a few more hours before getting up at 7:30 in order to catch the 8:50 train to Marrakesh. Spent most of the train journey reading my book (finished that by 9:30), listening to music on my mp3 player (battery died by 13:30) and looking out of the window (got bored of that after 30 minutes!)

From around 13:00 onwards, ...

The market, the tanneries and some éclairs

A travel blog entry by heathalessleofo

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... but the main attraction was clearly a large balcony in front of us. We approached and came upon an amazing sight. Below us were the tanneries, which consisted of dozens of enormous vats of dye in many colours, with men inside and around them stirring the contents with huge sticks or up on rooftops laying out skins to dry. A huge rolling machine spun in the background, powered by the river and used to rinse the skins. And possibly the most striking aspect of it ...

Fez

A travel blog entry by morocco-reed

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... I want to tell you a story and what I learned from it. When we were walking around in the old part of Fez called the medina. It is 1,200 years old, very crowded and the streets are about the width of a man with his arms spread out. Then I felt someone touch my pockets. When I checked my pockets my money was gone!!!!!!! I learned that it important to have velcro pockets. I was quite sad to lose the money, but learned something, too.
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The city of Fes

A travel blog entry by antipodean

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... tour leader for the trip, had been arrested by the local police, and we needed to get him – literally – out of jail. In Morocco, to be a tour GUIDE, you have do some study and then register and get the relevant papers with the Ministry of Tourism. However, the new profession of being a tour LEADER has recently been implemented with the help of western tourism companies coming in and utilising locals more. It is now legal ...

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