Old Fes is one of the most amazing places i have ever been to .
how did we get to Morocco ?.. a cheap flight from London to Portugal , then after sleeping the night at the border in field and being eaten alive by mosquitos .. we hitched down western Spain and then took the ferry over to Africa , arriving in the hassle City of Tangiers ..
I really like all the different people in this scene .. and the woman in the background inside the mosque
Fes el Bali is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Its medina, the larger of the two medinas of Fes, is believed to be the world's largest contiguous car-free urban area.
Fes’s importance as a spiritual city was immediately evident by the sheer beauty of the three-gated Bab Boujeloud, outshone only by the full amber moon that dominated from above. Gas lights past the gates glowed and the nightly ritual of cruising had begun. Food stalls wafted spices and it was bewitching.
As if under the spell of an ancient seeker, I was drawn into the medina - the Arab word for city.
Within 50 feet my first choice of narrow alleys to follow forced a decision; all paths looked promising. I simply followed the one with the brightest propane lanterns. As lost as Alice in Wonderland, I gazed at stalls filled with product. Fes has always been a trading city.
Progress was slow walking down the narrow alleys as donkeys laden with goods climbed up, clearly the city’s version of goods distribution. As in the souks of Marrakech, certain areas are for certain products and the most amazing were the food stalls, an endless path of edibles
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