Fes, Morocco!

Hey everyone! My class had a trip to Morocco, so here is a series of photos outlining my experience there :)











My hotel room, we lived like princesses hehe.

Me standing on a hill over looking Fes.

The city of satelites.

The Merenid tombs that over look Fes.

Classtime! (Or rather, sketch time!)

The Bab Boujeloud gate into the old city (Medina)

What the average street/walkway in Fes looks like.

One of the gates at the palace.

Check out the timy doors! (Thats me, so you can scale it haha)

The Royal gates, with the guards...

Who are heavily armed.

The Mokri Palace that is being restored.

A bedroom in the Morki Palace.

Some mosaics and designs on the walls.

Yours truly, sketching.

We visited the eremics factory! (Check out all those bowls!)

A manually run pottery wheel (the man's feet spin it)

A man setting up the mosacis for a table... when we asked the tour guide how he knew where to put all the peices, the response was ,"He knows.".

No, he's not hammering it to break it, he chiseling off the top layer of clay of make a design.

I'm converting?

Old school... He's weaving things like the scarf I am wearing above.

Hawra found a friend!

The city of Bhalil. We took a field trip to cities outside Fes for a day to visit Bhalil, Sefrou, and Ifrane, the last of which we visited to see the cedar forest :)

Ladies in Bhalil are very flexible.. here seen washing clothes.

Urchins. They pester you for money. CONSTANTLY.

People in Bhalil live in caves. Here is a really nice cave.

An animal cave where they keep donkies.

Sanitation in Morocco is not like the US... Those are bees.

A waterfall :)

Which flows into the river.

Ok, so I am riding a donkey in a dried up lake. How many people can say that they've done that?

And Peej haha.

The dried up lake with its dunes.

A wild dog in a sand storm in the lake. Don't worry mom, the dogs are friendly, especially since I gave them food.

In the cedar forest there are monkies!

And they will eat out of you hands!

And they know not to eat the orange peels.

Very cute.

And very friendly.

And here is a REALLY cute baby one!

Scales in what used to be a place where caravans would come to the city to sell their goods.

It is now a wood museum (the wood in here is Cedar, which they swear the best treatment for cedar is olive oil!)

Christi, my teacher, looking up (I'm on the roof)

Ther are these strange dove/peacock birds on the roof.

These are dye tubs for leather at the leather working shop.