Sunday, April 09, 2006

Fes

We visited the cultural heart of Morocco - and went shopping. Fes is an almost-intact medieval city, sprawling along a hillside in the centre of the country. We saw carpets being loomed, camel meat for sale at the butcher's, the old Jewish quarter, an apothecary, and the famous tanneries where men work in the sunshine dyeing fresh, reeking animal skins in pits of colour.

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