But let's start from the beginning! We took a train from Rabat just after 8AM on Saturday and about 3 hours later we were in Fes. The first thing that I saw was this orange tree (with real oranges!) on the platform. Then we took a bus and went to the heart of Fes - the medina. We spent a lot of hours there. It's very huge and you would need days to explore everything. Also you can buy literally EVERYTHING there.
After dealing with some problems at the police station (hotels didn't want to check us in without passports so we had to go to the police station to get some papers) we (Kojo, Ida, Daisy and me) found a really cheap and nice hotel with a marvellous view on the roof (only some pictures under this link are taken from this roof). Thess and Sadia preferred another one. The police station was situated in the new districts of Fes, built during French times - first half of XX century.
The most interesting places that I saw in the medina (old part of city) was Bou Inania Medersa - the oldest university in the world. It was also a place to pray and there were also some rooms for students (dormitory). Another thing was a huge shop with carpets where we also saw the process of manufacturing them. Then we went to tannery (garbarnia in Polish) to see how leather is made. The smell was awful but the place was worth seeing it.
Besides medina we were walking on the hills around the centre and were taking great pictures of remains of some awesome plants as well as walls, towers and cementery! The view from the hill on the medina was really breathe-taking!Now, I really advise you to see all of pics that I took (it's almost 450!!). When you see all of them just tell me ;)
Enjoy it!
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