Tour day 3. Today marked the end of ramadan. As such many things were closed. However we still managed a guided tour of the Fez medina, the worlds largest medieval medina. This included a tour of a pottery factory, a visit to the famous tannery and a explanation of the silk weaving production. Of course much shopping was expected after these "free" tours, which meant hours of bargaining and waiting. At dinner, as the city was pretty much dry throughout Ramadan, w...

Tour day 2. After the best breakfast all you can eat of our lives we began a 4 hr drive to Meknes. This meant plenty of time to meet and greet the rest of our group. Leaving the coast also meant a crazy increase in temp, resulting in constant sweat that was to remain for the following week. We had a city tour of Meknes, a former imperial city of morocco. Then back on the bus to volubilis, a UNESCO world heritage site, of the largest roman ruins in Africa. Beautif...

Hello from Africa! This evening we flew into Casablanca airport at about 7pm and by the time we caught a train then taxi to our hotel, it was pretty late, so we called it a night with the first day of our tour ahead tomorrow (though not before catching a bit of jaws 3 with Arabic subtitles. Turns out its as terrible in Morocco as it was in Australia; what was Dennis Quad thinking? Anyway...) The next morning at breakfast we had our first experience of one of th...