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Morocco is an Islamic nation. Some sources on the web we have read say it is 99 percent Muslim. This alone has made our visit so unlike any place we have been to on this trip. But you add in some African culture and a totally different climate, and Morocco becomes quite the amazing and informative experience. Medina means town or city in Arabic. But when people refer to it in Morocco, especially tourists, they mean the old walled city that has a high population density. Every place ...
On the road to Morocco
... later was starting to feel better. I ended up needing another tablet an hour later but that stopped the vomiting. We got to our hotel at about 11 pm. I collapsed into bed. And slept. The next morning all my rib muscles were sore. I got on the bus and I did not recognize a single person except the doctor. I had had my eyes closed for e entire trip and had seen nothing of Tangier or the trip to Fes. So there are no photos of this section. But I can still remember that ...
Voloubis and getting to Fez
... going to Fez! Wow this really excited me! We drove down into the valley and along to Ouzanne (the birthplace of my grandmother Aisha whom I never met). I felt a bit sad and nostalgic but knew she would have been so proud of my dad and hopefully she would be proud of me too!
On we went and at lunch time we stopped in a town on the way to Meknes! |the market there reminded me of Khartoum ...
Camel for dinner?
... managed to snatch a couple of actual sightings of the mosque, as they’d opened the doors for prayers, so I managed to catch different glimpses from different doors. Fatima and her sister in AD 859 were Tunisian refugees, who started the whole concept of having somewhere for culture and learning in Fes. What they started was expanded in the 12th century by the Almoravids, with it supposed to now be the largest mosque in Africa and the oldest ...
Ftur x3
... the 12 year old who reminded me so much of my brother Tyler, had just been punished -physically- for drinking milk without permission (huge no no when the rest of your world is fasting) and at first he was very shy, sad and embarrassed but the moment I showed him pictures of my siblings and Canada, he opened right up. He told Mohammed he wished I were staying longer so he could go out into the medina with me and show me around and then I could come ...
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