Day 6 - Fes

Now we're in the Morocco we expected, Fes is a 1200 year old living & working city with many aspects unchanged from the way they were done hundreds of years ago. This is the place you may have seen in the brochures (and on Getaway as they'll proudly tell you!) especially the leather tannery with it's colorful pools, like an enormous painting set.

The Medina (old town) was established for the camel caravans on the trade routes from Africa to Europe, carrying spices, slaves, gold and such. While there were no camels in the many kilometers of narrow alleyways,  there were plenty of people, shops, cats, chooks, and very well behaved donkeys! We again got suckered in as tourists and had to sit thru a carpet flog, but we managed to resist tempatation. I'm afraid we can't say the same for the leather and ceramics, at least the bargaining was fun.