MOROCCO fes
i love the feeling of my first steps on a new continent! even after a long journey, these steps re-energize me as i look forward to the days ahead on foreign soil. this was especially true for morocco because it is my first muslim country. so stepping off the ferry onto the dock was, well…exhilarating. especially since it was a trip and a half to get to morocco! i don´t know why but i thought it was going to be far more efficient than this! we took a coach from sevilla to algeciras (which took about two and a half hours) and then another coach (a half hour or so)to tarifa, and FINALLY a ferry (another half hour of so) across the straight of gibralter to tangier, morocco. whew! it also took longer at each stop since we tried asking around for the cheapest deal…too bad all the companies more or less charged the same price!
tangier, being a port town is really busy with traffic and people bustling about. the very first thing i noticed was the lack of women. all the cafes and restaurants were pretty full with customers, but with male customers. there were enough women walking wherever they had to go, but none sitting down enjoying the night. i didn´t feel threatened at all and i don´t think sue did either, but it was definitely a surprise.
chris had been to morocco last year and warned us of the moroccan transport system, so we should have been ready for our almost six hour coach ride from tangier to fes. (the guy at the ticket counter said about two) we even stopped for some sandwiches around hour four, and i knew then it was going to be atleast two more hours. and at last, after one in the morning, we arrived in fes.
we got lucky with a patient taxi driver who drove us around the new city looking for cheap hotels. most were charging too much or were full at this time of night, so we headed over by the medina and found a place at the main gate for only 150 dirhams a night! (roughly 5 euros a person!) the location could not have been better, and we settled in for the night ready to start our morocco journey!
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