A trip to Fez

Today’s post written by Bella

Our day began with breakfast at 8:45. I'm told there were delicious peaches- anyone who knows me knows it's incredibly unlikely for me to be up by 8:45, so my day actually began after 9 with a granola bar. After breakfast, we made our way to Fez- about an hour and a half long drive from Azrou.

It was brutally hot- about 107°F at the height of the day. Still, we were excited to explore Fez. First things first, we met our tour guide Mohamed at the entrance to the Medina- the old city where the streets are crowded with shops and stalls. Among the many vendors, we stopped in to see the weavers who create beautiful fabrics on their looms and bought pillow covers and pashima scarves, explored the old dorms of Fatima's university, and the bronze workers who create jewelry and metal dishes. We stopped for lunch around 2pm, escaping the heat to the fifth floor of a restaurant smack dab in the middle of the medina, where we devoured meat skewers and fruit platters.

After the medina, we drove to the pottery cooperative where we learned the process of creating ceramics, from spinning tagines on the kick wheel to the craving of tile pieces to create zellige mosaics. After our tour through their workshop, where we learned how they prepare the clay, fire and paint it, we got to look through their store and buy some of their work to take home with us. 

On the way back to Azrou, we stopped briefly in Ifrane and bought ice cream, before continuing back to Khadiga's house for dinner, which was lovely as always. And with that, our third to last day in Morocco came to a close.