Fes, Morocco Travel Blogs

Fes (the city...not the hat)
Jul 25, 2006 (1 photos)

... ride, but we learned a very important lesson in that short amount of time; never buy second-class train tickets in Morocco! Unlike first-class tickets that have reserved seats, they sell an unlimited number of second-class tickets for any given train. So ...

Welcome to Morocco!
Jul 5, 2004

... to London. So, after a brief stopover in Malaga we were off to Melilla and possibly all the way to Fes, depending on how travel in Morocco was. The ferry was overnight and not all that restful. We arrived bleary-eyed in Melilla, still a Spanish ...

Volubilis and Fes
Sep 28, 2005 (9 photos)

... day. The alternative of taxis for our Fes touring worked very well and we were taken to various artisans workshops around Fes before commencing a guided tour of the Medina. We definitely needed our wonderful guide as the Fes Medina has some 9,000 twisting ...

Fes
Sep 11, 2009 (45 photos)

text to come

Fez - Chaotic, Mesmerizing and Annoying
Jun 9, 2008 (16 photos)

... out of this fairly well; the whole thing left a bad taste in our mouths. So far; this fits in with our experience of Morocco: the first impression is rather bad, then we grow to find the place very interesting and even somewhat pleasurable, only to end up ...

Final choice green photo
Dec 12, 2005 (1 photos)

so this is the final pic i chose for the LP thorn tree december photo contest. to see a larger version of the pic just click on the thumbnail of it in the gallery above... and to see the other green pics i decided not to use, go to the previous ...

Weird vibes and Azimut, the guide
Apr 23, 2007 (17 photos)

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Medinas, masoleums, mosques.......
Mar 7, 2006 (11 photos)

... same place for dinner, another pretty early night.... Fes - another easy train ride, beautiful rural setting...train travel in morocco really is very cruisey. - also an imperial city of morocco; probably the biggest in fact. - big of a trek ...

Exploring Fes's Medina
Aug 16, 2006 (32 photos)

... is to embrace everyone like a brother or sister... to love everyone. I have definitely been on the receiving end here in Morocco and I am happy to say that this destination beats any and all of the western places I've ever visited... In terms of the ...

Fes
Aug 27, 2000 (15 photos)

Fes was an extraordinary place to lost amongst the hillside bazaars, workshops, restaurants, mosques, markets, schools and dye pits inside the medina of Fez El Bali that acts as a giant labyrinth. At first we were content at making our way cautiously ...

We finally left rabat on the 8th dec and ...
Dec 14, 2002 (3 photos)

... to prayer was so noisy it was unbelievable. All in all we found Casablanca to be fairly unremarkable. As the largest city in Morocco it was modern (at least by Moroccan standards) and didn't have much of an atmosphere to the place. We did the touristy ...

Imperial City
Aug 14, 2006 (42 photos)

... are the indigenous people of North Africa. 70% of Moroccans have Berber in them. Most of the successful people in Morocco have their start in Fes. What we heard about Fes was that the Medina was huge and confusing and that the people here would hassle ...

Fes for the weekend
Feb 23, 2008 (20 photos)

Went to Fes for the weekend to pick up Steve's friends who are studying in Rome and Sadie's cousins from Cambodia. Hung out in the medina, ate, drank, a usual trip to the 1200 year old city (this year! Happy birthday Fes!)

Aug 28, 2009
Aug 28, 2009 (7 photos)

Eventful weekend
Jan 27, 2008 (21 photos)

... ...in north africa...and you're eating at McDonalds..." well yes but only because it is a completely different culture being in Morocco and Macky D's here is THE cool place to hang out and eat, apparently especially on saturday nights. All of the chique ...

Fes
Aug 31, 2006

... was impressed. He explained how his brother lived in the LA and we began talking about the differences between the states and Morocco. Khalid explained that his brother was not all that comfortable in LA, because the people are always in a hurry. Also, ...

Getting Lost in the Medina
May 13, 2009

Aggressive tour guide Third story penthouse Medina Portuguese traveler Trying to opt out of the third night Aggressive kids Drinks at Le Bar des Voyageurs

Back from Morocco
Feb 14, 2008

... Well since I've contacted you last we've done our third continent in four days. On Monday we left southern Spain for Morocco. The fast boats weren't running because the winds were horrific and the water was rough. We arrived in Tangier and got right on ...

3 days trip to the Sahra
Jan 24, 2007 (9 photos)

zuerst mal nur fotos, da ich keine Geduld habe auf diesen bloeden Tastaturen lange Texte zu schreiben....

Fes, Morocco
May 25, 2009 (8 photos)

... ;for handicrafts - everything from leather goods to scarves, woodworking and carpets.  There is an art to shopping in Morocco and haggling is expected.  We had to learn as we went, but fortunately our guide helped us out.  We're ...

Update: P
Oct 11, 2008

... ago and I was woken up at various times of the night with cracks of thunder that would make Zeus cry for his mammy. In Morocco houses don't tend to have roofs.....they have a kind of canope which prevents water coming in but which also lets the cold air in ...

Desde Fes - From Fez
May 6, 2006 (5 photos)

Morocco is heavy. The atosphere, smells (open-air cooking, contamination, perfumes, garbage, spices, donkey dunge, deisel fumes, rich incense) the language, the look on men's faces, the history, the ensuing sense that you must constantly watch your ...

Authentic Morocco
Jul 21, 2008

... many surveys in the UK that say we are getting less happy as a nation. I dont know if similar surveys exists in Morocco but I'm guessing that the average Moroccan has not got the time to think about it.....or the inclination. From the outside they look ...

Fezzzzzz
Mar 23, 2009

... as we left Chefchaouen in a hurry we were we filled with excitement and the hopes of falling in love with the biggest of all Morocco's imperial cities. We arrived shortly before it got dark and shared a cab to the center of the old city with a German ...

Arriving In And Exploring Fez, Morocco
Nov 4, 2009 (84 photos)

... experiences are more authentic.  We have had an amazing day today. We arrived in Fez (sometimes spelled “Fes”), Morocco, about 2:30am today, after a 7+ hour train ride from Marrakesh.  The journey was quite enjoyable, given the 1st ...

Fès the maze, pride of Morocco
Oct 10, 2006 (4 photos)

... than 600 mosks. However, the most famous sight of Fès is certainly the unbelievably stinky tannery where the finest leather of Morocco is still produced according to centuries old procedures and a total disregard for the health of workers. All day long, ...

Update : October 2008
Oct 11, 2008

... ago and I was woken up at various times of the night with cracks of thunder that would make Zeus cry for his mammy. In Morocco houses don't tend to have roofs.....they have a kind of canope which prevents water coming in but which also lets the cold air in ...

Achmed from the Fez Medina
Mar 23, 2009 (6 photos)

... Tajine with couscous. Most of the group are on a very tight budget and  didn't want to spend that much. A lunch in Morocco bought at the markets costs between 10c and $1. It would appear that we are a cheap group of people because on mass we got up ...

Fes: Moroccan Medina Maze
Jun 20, 2008 (35 photos)

... for foreigners, 5,000 of the streets are dead ends.  Another thing that struck me was how there were cats all over Morocco, literally hundreds walking through the medina, presumably to keep the mice away.  Seeing some of them was sad, made me ...

Finding our way
Sep 6, 2008 (9 photos)

... on the table in jewels and had lots of tangine pots with special dishes (tangines are the cone-shaped pots that they use in Morocco). A man played sitar music and it was very cool. But Lu and I both fell asleep before dessert, again! Today we walked ...