Last night there was talk about a hike this morning, however Jaimen was unable to get in contact with the local guide. Therefore, instead of getting up nice and early, today we slept in. At around 10.30am we headed down for our Moroccan breakfast, before packing and checking out around 11.30am. From here we headed back down into the town. We did consider doing our own little hike for a while but we quickly decided that it was way too hot… shopping it was instead. There is not much to say about the town that I didn’t say yesterday – it is still very blue and hot! We did wander into the town museum – there wasn’t much there in terms of artifacts but we did head up a tower with a very pretty view, staying there for quite a while and just relaxing.
After the museum, there was some more browsing of shops and a couple of earring purchases. Then to lunch – I had a salad, roast beef and an apple tart, nothing particularly out there. Andy was a little bit more adventurous, getting a beef tagine with prunes and then a crème caramel complete with a live bug crawling on it. We also ordered a bottle of Moroccan wine which was not very good at all… I guess it’s not their speciality here!
Back to the hotel after for some air conditioning – it was already 3pm, a very lazy day today! At 4pm our transfer bus to Fes arrived – this bus was amusing, big, black, with tinted windows and doof doof music. Jaimen described our driver as a ‘mafia driver’, a big guy with big sunglasses and no smiles for anyone. The bus took around three and a half hours and wasn’t particularly pleasant… the ride was curvy, very bumpy and the driver was a slight lunatic. We all just retreated into our own little worlds to get through it all!
At around 8.30pm we arrived in Fes. Clearly already it is dramatically different to the little blue village we just left – this is a big, busy, dirty city and tomorrow’s tour through it will be very interesting indeed! We arrived at our hotel just as some sort of celebration was happening in the street, with drums and lots of people clapping… almost a welcome parade for us! Our hotel is nice enough… it was never going to match the last place.
Dinner was at a very fancy modern place next door. Most people ordered pasta, hamburgers or other comfort foods but I wanted to stick with something traditionally Moroccan – this meant a really bizarre pastry thing. The pastry itself was very sweet and covered in icing sugar and cinnamon but inside was chicken mince? Very bizarre. I liked it, I think. After dinner we took a quick stroll around the beginning of the market here, lots of fresh produce and other weird things… a small taste of tomorrow! In bed before midnight – tomorrow I think shall be a bit epic!
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