Chefchaouen, the Blue City

This post is going to be mostly pictures, as it's late and the pictures really say it all anyway.

We left Tangier (after another amazing breakfast) and started the drive to Fes. It's a longish trip, and it was broken up with two breaks. The first was the stop at Chefchaouen and the second was a lunch stop. The drive was interesting in itself, as the terrain is varied as we drove. We went through mountains, saw reservoirs, a green farming area, and a dry farming area. There were lots of olive trees too.

I mentioned in the last post that part of the drive looked like a factory farm area. Well, it did and it didn't. There would be large green wheat fields with big tractors and combines (though nothing as large as I've seen in the states), and the next large field would have a farmer plowing with a horse. There were lots of sheep and goats, each flock with its shepherd.

Chefchaouen is on a hill (of course) and the bus let us off at the bottom. We walked up with Abdul telling us about what we were seeing, then had 30 minutes to wander on our own. As I said, I'm going to let the pictures do the talking.

As we left town, I looked back and saw the old city and its blue and managed to snap a picture.

We had another huge lunch, then made it to Fes at about 5 PM. We are staying in a Riad tonight and tomorrow night. It is an amazing building. I'll take pictures and write more about it later. Tomorrow we'll be exploring the old city all day. Tomorrow night, I've signed up for a hammam and a massage, so, if I'm still functional after that, I'll write about Fes and also about the black soap they use in the hammam.

Oh dear, that's three things to write about tomorrow night: the Riad, the hammam and the black soap, and all day in Fes! And I absolutely have to write a post about the cats of Morocco.