Fes, Morocco March 26, 2019

We traveled to Fes from Chefchaouen next.  (From the Intrepid description)  Fes is the spiritual and cultural heart of Morocco, vibrant, noisy, fascinating and overwhelming - a visual and pungent feast for the senses.  We had a tour of Fes with a local guide, stopping by a royal palace, and then heading into the old city (medina), known locally as Fes el Bali, arguably the world's most fascinating and confounding old city.  Medievel Fes was one of the world's great centers of education and culture, both Islamic and Jewish.  Its religious institutions and libraries are legendary, its mosques of great renown.  We walked through the twisting streets and alleyways, passing amazing stalls selling all kinds of goods (for the locals mostly not really for the tourists) in the specialty sections that divide the souk.  Filled with historic khans, redresses and dye-pits, stalls loaded with fruits, herbs and soups, and where the squawk of chickens, smell of spice, and sound of hammering of copper fills the air, its not hard to imagine yourself back in the Middle Ages. Tonight finished with all of us going out to "dinner and a show"  which although geared to us tourists was a lot of fun for everyone.