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This is the airport in Casablanca. Absolutely beautiful.

This is the airport in Casablanca. Absolutely beautiful. We arrived in Casablanca from Spain and flew on to Fes. We were really jumping in at the deep end. This is a 17th-century Jewish cemetary in Fez Al-Jdid, which we found while we were lost, because we didn't hire a guide. We'd love to tell you where this was, but we were lost. Still lost. Hey - we recognized this from our guidebook! The entrance to the Medina, the Bab Boujeloud. Donkeys are still the main way to get goods in and out of the Medina. ASPCA really doesn't have much of a presence here. We bought a nice chess set here. A lot of the goods being sold were made right in front of our eyes. Hauling empty coke bottles. We escaped to the Dar Batha museum. We were primarily interested in some peace and quiet to have a picnic in the garden. We made our way back to the tourist information office and hired an official guide for the rest of the day. Our first stop with our guide was a pottery souk. Just outside the souk, we saw them drying pots. The furnace, where they fired the pots. Ok, this is the last pottery souk picture, I promise. This was at the entry to a madrasa in the medina. Inside the madrasa. Next stop was the tannery souk. We saw them drying skins, dunked in pigeon crap, and saturated in dye. The smell was bad, but fortunately it wasn't that hot. This shot is only interesting because you can see our guide, in the long robe in front of Ian. Ok maybe it's not that interesting. Anyways... This is the Bou Inania madrasa. The spice souk This is the Ville Nouvelle (new town) part of Fez, where we were staying. And of course, some under-aged carpet weavers to finish off the slideshow!