Fezelas
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007By the end of the trip, I am sure the Brazil to Morocco move will be one of the strangest taken. My head spun for a week afterward wanting to be on a beach in Brazil and having difficulty making the adjustment to the ancient medina of Fez. It has 9000 alleys none of which can honestly be called a street and 800,000 residents. I don’t recall seeing any alleys wider than 5 meters, but I certainly did not see all 9000. Many were less than a meter wide in places. There are few instances where the alleys ran straight for more than a few meters and there are many locations where you cannot look up and see the sky. The medina was supposedly designed… designed to protect the residents and confuse the attackers. Damn… the place is sounding better to me just reading this! Unfortunately, add in the hordes of people (mainly locals), the vendors and their overflowing wares, the beggars, the million sickly cats, the smoke and all the smelly waste left behind and you have what I “affectionately” (not) call The Rat Trap.
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