Zalagh Parc Palace Hotel Fez Fes

... the center, containing the Royal Palace and the Jewish Quarter (also called the &#8220;new medina&#8221;, although perhaps only in Fez can one find a &#8220;new city&#8221; that is more than 700 years old!); and Ville Nouvelle in the southwest (actually, the fairly &#8220;new&#8221; part of the city, containing Fez&#8217;s administrative area). Our riad is located just outside of the Medina &#8211; we spent today in both the Medina and in the city center.<br><br ...

... and won't leave me. I offer to give the kid a small tip and they get aggressive wanting a lot more. They start screaming at me, after I refuse to cooperate. After I get out of the medina I take a taxi to go see the gardens and the old Jewish district and temple. In the afternoon I go to the main square by the city gate and listen to some of the music from the festival. Suddenly my phone starts working and my mom is calling. She was worried about my situation and got ...

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... just kidding but it sounded good), pelts, hot oil, cured leather, metalsmith hammers, call to prayer, bells, drums, donkeys, beggars, and (somewhat ruining the age old ambiance) cd's. There are a seemingly infinite number of shops selling everything from belts to cd's to bronze lamps to combs to modern shoes to funny looking-upturned-toe slippers to burnoose's to pigeons to turtles (don't ask we don't know) to leather goods. Especially the ...

... to support the number of shops that were previously there. We were shown around by one of the locals, and visited the site of one of the old caravanserais as well as one of the bakeries where the locals take their own bread mix to be baked in the wood fire ovens, having only gas or electricity in their homes. If they take extra bread mix to make additional bread for selling by the bakery, they do not need to pay to use the bakery.

... bereber who takes him to his carpet shop and invites him to tea and talks to him about how they go out on fridays to the mountains and celebrate with music and dance, and how "women work and men do business".Gonzalo finally manages to get out of the shop without buying a carpet saying he is going to look for his wife (that's me) so that she can choose the carpet (it's difficult to ...

... were jostling to fill their buckets.We were given buckets which we filled, and a small bowl for scooping the water over us. The fat woman indicated I should lie on the floor and she began scrubbing me vigorously with the mit. The dead skin just peeled away and my skin felt raw with her rubbing. Next thing I knew she had flipped me over like a fish, onto my stomach while she set to work on my back. What I saw next will be imprinted on my memory forever. The tiled floor on which I was ...

... tiny staircase and onto rooftops overlooking the city. Mum isn't good with heights and her knees turned to jelly as we were led across buildings with dangerous drops. On the rooftops skins were laid out drying in the sun. We peered down into courtyards where men were wading in pools of filthy water, preparing and softening the leather. I attempted not to breathe whilst we were up there, because the smell was ...

... town) which was double the space for half the price. The one positive of medina-living was that we were only a short stroll from a little restaurant which soon became our regular haunt. On a strip of restaurants that shall be aptly termed rob-the-tourists-blind-street, his was a tiny hole in the wall with a small 6 seater table awkwardly resting on the uneven street. While the surrounding restaurants had shiny green chair covers, oversized white bows, matching ...