Driving Holiday In Morocco Day One: Fes (aka Fez), 8 November 1997

A placeholder and links for information about this trip can be found here and below.

We flew out to Fes (or Fez) on the evening of 7 November. We stayed at the Palais Jamai there – we liked that place, although it flattered a little to deceive with a flashy outward appearance – much of Morocco was like that.

We had arranged a walking tour of the Fes Medina (only feet and mules are allowed) for our first day in Morocco. Our guide, Abdl Jawl, arrived promptly and without ceremony.

A selection of the photos and yarns follows. More photos can be found in the Flickr albums, linked at the bottom of each piece about this holiday.

Examining the snails

Colour-co-ordinated Moroccan women

Zawiyya (mausoleum) Moulay Idriss II

Medersa El-Attarine

Kairaoine Mosque

Debating with Abdl Jawl in Seffarine Medersa

Little treasures in a Seffarine District school

You’ll be grateful that the tanneries are not shown on a smelly-vision

In the souk we were neither persuaded to buy a carpet, nor a Fassie outfit

Having failed my audition as a Klansman, we took some lunch back at the Palace – Pastilla (Moroccan pigeon pie).

Stop the pigeon…

Then off again on a taxi tour to Fez Jdid.

Dar-el-Makhzen (Royal Palace)

Mellah (Jewish Quarter)

Then back to the Palais Jamai after a short stop in Fez New Town at the bank and book shop.

Me on our return to the Palais

Returned tired. Had Moroccan meal (kebabs, tajine lamb & couscous) at Palais Jamai

The diary is silent on this aspect but I think this was “afters”

All the photos from the first part of our journey (40 of them from that first day alone) are on this Flickr album – click here or below:

001 8 November 1997 - Only mules and pedestrians allowed in these Fes streets M_J1_Photo (2)

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