The Imperial Cities
We packed up our bags and went off to Morocco for Doug's final break break before graduation (yes, crazy that it is almost over - we know). We flew into Marrakech spend one night in an absolute dump before taking the train up to Fez for a couple of days.
The Medinas (walled old city) have different souqs in them each for a different type of handicraft. So we saw guys making tables and stuff in the woodworkers souq and guys making leather goods in the tanneries and guys making pots and bed frames and lamps in the medal workers souq etc...Fez was amazing, the neatest Medina of them all. The "roads" are so narrow everything comes in by donkey, making it the largest car-free urban area in the world. If it weren't for all the satellite dishes on the roofs and the Levis jeans being worn by some you could have stepped back a few thousand years. We stayed in a very cool (but more expensive then we were hoping) riad (Riad Dar Dmana) right in the Medina that was, as Sarah put it very adorable.
After wandering around, getting lost, trying not to buy more then one carpet and soaking up the crazy Medina of Fez we headed back to Marrakech to meet up with friends Jason and Sandra. We spent a day wandering through the Medina there (and yes buying more Moroccan goodies - a painting this time) and observing the crazy night market before boarding a night bus to take us down to the Sahara for 3 days in the desert...
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