Emma, my house mate, and I explored the Medina or older part of Fez today. We met up with my friend from Michigan who is also studying with me, and an Australian and Columbian that she met at her hostel.
Here is us eating lunch together!
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| Some great Moroccan Beer! |
The Medina is a maze filled with a store for every need! The stores are packed full, and I often wonder how the shop keepers get in and out at the days end... there never seems to be any opening!
We ran into this young man that wanted to practice his English and he kept bringing us to different stores. Although I am sure he was paid or it was family stores that he brought us too, he did bring us to see some of the most beautifully decorated stores. Stores that were hard to find, but filled to the top with ceramics, embroidery, and bronze. It was always our choice to buy something, and the information they were giving us was free... so I saw no harm in it.
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A man engraving the bronze.
The designs are all by memory. |
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The beautiful Fez, blue embroidery.
It is done on special cotton that is combined with lemon. |
We also wondered into some jewelry and Argon stores. Argon is a special nut grown in Morocco that is pressed for its oil and used in everything from perfume, to cosmetics, to cooking oil.
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| The jewelry is from different berber tribes. |
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| Two women working on the nuts. |
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This is what I want my door of my
future house to look like! ;) |
Later we went into a museum. It had been restored to it's previous gory!
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| On the second balcony! |
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| Testing out the scales! |
