We spent four great days exploring a very small part of Morocco. Kazaio crew, Rolf and I rented a car with a driver, what a great way to move around! We went to Fes first, where we also hired a guide to show us around. We stayed at a traditional Moroccon home, called Riad, and had dinner at a semi-private, family-run restaurant. Great food!
The second day we continued to Meknes via Ifrane. Ifrane was weird, as the whole city looks like a town in Switzerland - well almost, I guess... the style of the buildings anyway. We couldn't find accommodation - our driver turned out to have no sense of direction (and no GPS), so we continued on to Meknes. What a lucky move! We stayed in another Riad (Riad Lahboul), run by a British-Moroccon couple. Had the best food in all of Morocco right here as they luckily served dinner. And what an outstanding building! Very traditional. And as a special treat, the couple, both musicians, gave a little private concert one night. On our last morning, we explored the Medina of Meknes - the nicest one we have been to, relatively clean, well put together and just fun to explore - from the smelly butchers' stalls where they cut a cow's head in half (yuck!) to the stalls offering spices, or olives or sweets of all kinds, to the clothes, yarn, ceramic and shoe stalls. Luckily, none of us suffered from Montezuma's revenge, something to be expected as we were told. Though very interesting, the trip was also tiring and we were all happy to get back to the boat for some well deserved rest and home cooking. Nevertheless, we felt like we had spent at lest a week, so much did we see, and it was nice to be on "vacation" away from the boat for a change.
In the end, it was too far to go to the desert and we only saw the mid-Atlas, which wasn't all that exciting, so we actually should come back for a longer visit. Maybe we will.
Today, we spent one more day at Sale/Rabat and will head out with the high tide tomorrow at 6 am, going towards Lanzarote, a three nights-trip.
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Fes' Medina - between 9,000 and 12,000 little alleys - believed
to be the largest contiguous car-free urban area in the world |
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| Those Medina alleys can get pretty narrow... |
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| Tannery in Fes |
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| Tannery in Fes |
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Meknes market - Meknes was capital of Morocco in the
17th to 18th century |
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Meknes Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail, who is noted as one
of the greatest figures in Moroccan history (not only because
of his alleged 888 children) |
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| Meknes market |
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Private concert by Simon and Mouna
at the Meknes Riad Lahboul - check out their
web site www.riadlahboul.com to see their lovely place |
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| Surprising Moroccan scenery - so green!!! |
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Volubilis, a partly excavated Roman city,
developed from the 3rd century BC onwards |
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| Volubilis |
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| Volubilis |
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| Hand made mosaic tables |
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