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. A young boy “adopted” us and offered to guide us to…
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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 nooks and crannies. Mohammed gave us basic pointers on how to…
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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. We purchased tickets to Fes from Barcelona on Ryan Air. Uneventful…
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Morocco trip Birthday time coming for Dilshad, so had to go somewhere; Morocco it is Destination Moroccan Sahara desert Planned to get to Casablanca by going from Dallas to Miami; then to Barcelona and finally onto Casablanca. Our adventure started before we even left the US. Took a mid-day flight from Dallas to Miami, and…
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We slept well in our hut in the night; no strange surprises. Since the sides of the hut are built with cane sugar stalks, they don’t fit very well, so there are small gaps between the stalks, resulting in good air circulation and breeze, from the steady breeze on the islands. To provide privacy, they…
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