The last days in Fès we would like to relax and enjoy doing nothing. Enough of medinas and the busy life in town. Just reading, researching background stories and writing, away from noise and smell of the narrow lanes.
Short ride into the city for meals and snapshots. The rented car has proven to be a mean of independence.
Our suite ist on the right side of the left palm tree
Bab (= the gate) Boujeloud
Altogether Morocco is an interesting country to stay for holiday. Rich of culture and diversity of the nature. It has hosted various people from different civilisations: Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Jews, Arabs, Berber, Romans and Andalusians. Recent history of Morocco has intaken the French and Spanish influence. Ceuta and Melilla have been being two Spanish exclaves in Morroco since the 15th century and form the EU borders on the African continent.
Bab Chorfa
There is the Sahara desert in the South, the Atlas mountain in the North and further north the Mediterranian Sea beyond the Atlas, the Atlantic Ocean in the West, you will notice different vegetations and climates offering different outdoor activities. People are friendly and welcoming with great hospitality once you enter their house. In the streets, particularly in tourist hot spots there is another scenario which let you have a constant awareness of tourist trap and scam.
Fes in the twilight
Palais royal
Although stable politically one should not enter certain remote areas in the Sahara bordering Algeria and Mauretania. There is a high threat from terrorism and kidnapping. (British & German Foreign Offices, February 2017).
