Hotel Mounia Fes

We had breakfast and headed out by 8:30 since this drive was expected to be 6-7 hours. The scenery changed drastically as we entered the Middle Atlas Mountains. It's strange how different these mountain passes are compared to the ones over the High Atlas. This was a lot of farmland - very rocky farmland - but very green as we worked our way nort...

Today we left Meknes on board a train for Fez. The journey was around an hour, and quite comfortable. The landscape is incredible; it looks more like Europe than Africa. It's hard to believe that in such a small country there can be desert, lush expanses of olive tree groves and farmland, and mountains topped with snow. The scenery today was mos...

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11.4.09 Arriving In And Exploring Fez, Morocco

Disney World is to Florida as Marrakesh is to Morocco – it's an inherent part of the territory, and you’ve got to see it in all its glory and craziness while you’re visiting – but then get the hell out of there!!! After being in Fez for less than 24 hours, I think I ...

I take the bus from Chefchouen at 2.30pm. the bus cost 50 dirham and is supposed to take 4 hours. When the bus arrives, the man selling the tickets introduces me to the bus driver who puts my bag away, after I didn't realize to tip him, he repeats his name, I catch on and give the guy a tip. I get on the bus, and I think I am the only foreiger. ...

Fes is a town and it is also a hat. In fact, it is that funny hat that old men wear when they drive small cars in parades back home as part of their duty as shriners or Freemasons or some other old-school club. This use of the ancient headpiece that originated from one of the greatest capitals in the world is a bit ironic as at one point the fes...

We are up for some more punishment so we had decided we wanted to do a more extreme Sahara Desert experience by roughing it nomad style with a five day camel trek. The Merzouga dunes were great but we wanted some more genuine desert time. We also decided that we would go directly to the source, to the isolated town of M' Hamad in the South near ...

Here I am at the Moroccan border with the tiny Spanish enclave of Ceuta. There is mass confusion - cars, trucks and vans, touts, several types of people in uniform - police, army, customs officers. I have no idea what the process is and I have a few potential problems, eg: the car is registered in my cousin's name, I don't have the official pape...

At about 9 o'clock we awake to the brand new and unfortunately the last day here. We do some repacking in order to meet the 15kg baggage limit of Ryanair and the hotel room is empty again. Today we start the morning by exploring the vicinity of Royal Palace on SW of Fes el Bali. The palace itself is closed to public, but has a fabulous main gate...

Fez is sometimes characterized as one of the world's most magical cities, a place that even today is like something out of 1,0001 Arabian Knights, so I was eager to judge for myself whether it lives up to its reputation. Unless your tolerance level for messy, noisy, dusty places with narrow pedestrian alleyways and crowds of people and donkeys i...