Fez hats aren´t from Fes??!

We were pretty upset to find out that Fez hats aren´t even from Fes - they´re Turkish! We hadn´t realised that the names were spelt differently, and lots of people in Fes still wear them, so when a local told us that they weren´t Moroccan it was a bit of a disappointment... but we bought some anyway... tourists!



Everything else about Fes was great though. We love that you can bargain on everything in Morocco - even accomodation - meaning that we got to stay in a very nice guesthouse (riad), which was a lovely change from the budget pensions and hostels we´d been staying in.

Fes has a great medina, with lots of tiny spiralling passages that you can get lost in for hours. In these passages you´ll find stalls selling lamps, carpets, clothes, jewellery and even coca-cola - which is all delivered on the back of a donkey! The "coke donkeys" wander the streets of Fes, taking deliveries and collecting empty bottles.



Another big attraction of Fes are the tanneries. These have been around for hundreds of years, and leather is still tanned in the same way. Skins are delivered from the abbatoir, soaked in limestone vats, then in pigeon poo (really!), and are then dried or dyed or oiled. The tanneries stink, but are really interesting to see.