Fes - The sights sounds and smells
Greetings and salutations from the world travellers. Morocco has definitely been a handful for us with very very helpful people at every turn. The day was not without its excitements, including us hiring a faux guide for a few dirhams and finding out that Lonely Planet was completely right about the whole experience. It wasn't bad, it was just exactly like they described it.
Mind you, Fes is an incredible step back in time when you look out over the medina, except now you see a satellite dish on top of every single roof. It is straight from another world.
We were simply intending on visiting the huge medina on our own, but after about 10 offers of help, we settled on the guy who was the nicest to us and didn't give us a convoluted story about a member of his family working at the CN Tower (one actually said that his sister worked in the rotating restaurant which I kinda find hard to believe). So anyway, we agree on a rate which works out to about $8 canadian for a few hours and he starts taking us around. I'm sure none of the official guides would have brought us into someone's house but the places he took us were just out of this world. Among them a bakery, brass works, wood carver's, tilemaker's, etc... Of course the end of the tour involved some convenient stops at various carpet, leather, misc shops which we were "not obligated to buy anything." Well, we didn't so poor Mohammed didn't earn any commission from us today. The tour took the better part of the afternoon so anyway, some photos attached.
The Tannery (smells like shit here, really)
Tomorrow, we head off for Meknes and Volubilis
Mind you, Fes is an incredible step back in time when you look out over the medina, except now you see a satellite dish on top of every single roof. It is straight from another world.
We were simply intending on visiting the huge medina on our own, but after about 10 offers of help, we settled on the guy who was the nicest to us and didn't give us a convoluted story about a member of his family working at the CN Tower (one actually said that his sister worked in the rotating restaurant which I kinda find hard to believe). So anyway, we agree on a rate which works out to about $8 canadian for a few hours and he starts taking us around. I'm sure none of the official guides would have brought us into someone's house but the places he took us were just out of this world. Among them a bakery, brass works, wood carver's, tilemaker's, etc... Of course the end of the tour involved some convenient stops at various carpet, leather, misc shops which we were "not obligated to buy anything." Well, we didn't so poor Mohammed didn't earn any commission from us today. The tour took the better part of the afternoon so anyway, some photos attached.
The Tannery (smells like shit here, really)
Tomorrow, we head off for Meknes and Volubilis
posted by Wally at 3:02 p.m.
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