Riad Damia
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"How about that ride in..."
"How about that ride in" pretty much sums up how we finally made it to Fes. We started off great, landing in Casablanca on time. Our plane was a little ghetto – imagine an old school delta plane with only 3 seats in a row. We were planning to train to Fes, which took approx. 2 hours from the Casablanca airport according to whatever Heather …
Middle Atlas
We had another breakfast of yummy corn crepes and yogurt and met our driver, Abraham, to go to the Middle Atlas of Morocco. The Middle Atlas is in the mountainous area of Morocco, where a lot of Berber people live in small villages. The Berbers speak their own language, not Arabic or French like the majority of people in Morocco and the language is …
Farewell Fes!
Friday, our last full day in Morocco, we went on another tour around Fes with Abdul and his wife came along. She only spoke French, so it was harder to communicate with her but I tried to remember some of the French I learned in lower school to understand what she was saying. Abdul had another tour planned with an Australian so we went with his …
Fes
... that we stayed in has had a medina, but the one in Fes is the biggest in Africa! The medinas were built around the 1300's by the Moors. The roads were purposely made very narrow and maze-like to deter and confuse any invading armies. It works well on tourists now. Medinas are full of mosques, but the medina in Fes has over 200 of them. At the top of the mosques are four speakers pointing in every direction, used to amplify the prayer call that happens five times a day. It is like ...
We figure out the Fez Medina
... 150 dirhams for you”. Oh Crikey, I’m thinking. We thank him, wish him well and start heading off further up the hill. “Only 125 dirhams! I have others too” as we are making a rapid exit.
We explore the ruins, wander around a few grazing sheep and past a hillside full of tanned hides drying in the sun. It’s been about 30 – 45 minutes since our encounter with the hill-side carpet seller but as we are almost ...
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