This post is part of a series called Morocco May 2017 Plan is to drive most of the day to Merzouga, to visit the Sahara Desert in south-eastern Morocco, via the Middle Atlas Mountains, towards the Algerian border. At night, slept well except for the call to prayers from the ever present and nearby mosques….
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This post is part of a series called Morocco May 2017 Next day, plan was to explore Meknes. Meknes is about 60kms west of Fes, and is another old city (1000ys old) that was an Arab capital. Meknes is smaller than Fes, and is home to the Moroccan Ismaili’s. Meknes was the capital of Sultan…
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This post is part of a series called Morocco May 2017 Fes Tanneries and Sufi Music festival Another area of interest in Fes is the Tannery’s, where animal hides are processed and dyed. There are several around Fes, the biggest and most accessible/interesting is the Chouwara Tanneries in the old Medina in Fes el Bali….
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This post is part of a series called Morocco May 2017 The next morning, we were fed typical Moroccan breakfast of fresh squeezed orange juice, mint tea /coffee, bread with butter/jam/marmalade, and small fried paratha’s. Very nice. Moroccan’s don’t eat eggs for breakfast. Then we made our way into the Medina to explore it various…
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This post is part of a series called Morocco May 2017 Arrived in Barcelona after our adventure with flights in Miami. We then changed our flight to Morocco, to get to Fes directly since we had lost 1 day and so had to keep Casablanca at the end of our tour instead of the beginning….
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