Here's a wee map for your reference.
We arrived in Fez on the Saturday afternoon after a 4am start at Luton Airport. After checking into our hotel in the Ville Nouvelle (new town) we went for a wander to get our bearings. We also organised a guide to show us around the Medina (the old town) on the Sunday. You pretty much need a guide as the Medina of Fes is a bit of a labyrinth...
In front of the massive bronze and mosaic gate near the entrance to the Medina
The most amazing doorway/gate I have ever seen - I love the colours and patterns and the contrast between the blue and gold.
One of the shrines to the local saint.
Inside the Medina
The Medersa Boub Inania. Fes apparently had the biggest university in the world during the middle ages. The medersas were basically student quarters where they lived, studied and prayed. Each medersa incorporates its own mosque. This one is the most intact and oldest medersa in Fes. The craftsmanship and detailing is amazing.
A cute Moroccon donkey - these animals are still widely used and commonly refrred to as the 'Fez Taxi'
A cute Moroccon donkey - these animals are still widely used and commonly refrred to as the 'Fez Taxi'
Another shot of the medersa
The Fez tannery - one of the most interesting (and smelly) industries in the city. Leather hides are cured in pigeon excrement (the white troughs in the background) and then dyed using (supposedly) natural dyes: saffron for yellow, opium flowers for red, mint for green etc etc.
Getting weighed the old-fashioned way
View from terrace at the pottery/mosaic workshop we visited, towards the Middle Atlas mountains which form the backdrop to the city
Graham posing as a desert warrior at one of the local silk weaver shops
Overlooking the city from the Merenid tombs
Graham tucking into some vege/chicken couscous 'Fassis' - style
The Fez tannery - one of the most interesting (and smelly) industries in the city. Leather hides are cured in pigeon excrement (the white troughs in the background) and then dyed using (supposedly) natural dyes: saffron for yellow, opium flowers for red, mint for green etc etc.
Getting weighed the old-fashioned way
View from terrace at the pottery/mosaic workshop we visited, towards the Middle Atlas mountains which form the backdrop to the city
Graham posing as a desert warrior at one of the local silk weaver shops
Overlooking the city from the Merenid tombs
Graham tucking into some vege/chicken couscous 'Fassis' - style
(i.e. the Fez variation on couscous)
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You guys looked like you had lots of fun in Morocco, good pics.
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