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Tannery! Tannery! Come! Come!
... phrase that they had learned in English: “Tannery is that way!” Great, now the kids were touting too.
As the maze of the alleyways was bewildering we started to feel a bit claustrophobic. Ignoring the “helpful” strangers eager to take us to another tannery we asked men seating in front of a house of a major landmark that matched our map. They were usually helpful, despite no command of English or even French language. We just ...
Wow, Fes Medina is amazing place
This morning had tour around Fes, through the old Jewish quarter. And then into the Medina. Maze of narrow streets through all the shops. Many donkeys also navigating their way through with loads, plus people with push carts. Barely room to stand aside to let them through as moving quickly and just seem to expect pedestrians to get out of their way. Guess we tended to ...
Fès
... un groupe de singes (macaques) sauvages. Ils vivent nombreux dans cette forêt. Ce sont les mêmes que l'ont voient à Marrakech sur la place Jemma el fna, mais là ils sont libres, sauvages mais attirés par l'homme . Belle rencontre !
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Camel for dinner?
... so I took her advice and got the local bus. In no time at all, I’d arrived at the oldest part of the medina.
Fes originally started out in AD 789, when the Moroccan Moulay Idriss I realised that the Roman city of Volubilis (Oualili – more later) wasn’t large enough. As his father died, Idriss II had the new capital built and by 809 it was thriving. Originally Berber, 8,000 Andalucians quickly arrived, along with Arabs from Tunisia. ...
Fes Medina
... price and further enticed us by including a free cold drink. The food was absolutely beautiful and very filling. People have told us that we will get sick of eating tagines and couscous but I cannot see that happening any time soon. To get back to our hotel we flagged down a petite taxi and as it turns out it was the same driver who drove us from the bus station the night before. Again he tried to overcharge us ...
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