Morocco day 3 – Fes via Meknes and Volubilius

Go go go! We over-slept:(
We ran 30 mins late for our driver 😦

After a fabulous buffet breakfast in a Western hotel – it was time to venture into the heart of Morocco – we were off..

through the outskirts of the city

The road was being lined with soldiers & flags as the King would be traveling to Fes some time that day…

past Technopolis
(every country has one!)

past local farmers

we felt at home when we saw the Eucalyptus trees

First stop – medieval Meknes

Lunch somewhere Western to ease the culture shock

A stop to admire the view over the Meknes medina…

The second stop was for the Roman ruins at Volubilus

View of Moulay Idriss…
(a holy town which is a common pilgrimmage destination for its mausoleum)

Gorgeous view of inland salty lake…
(with a family picnicing near by. We love that the Moroccan families love to picnic too)

This was beautiful farming country- we saw farms of olives, almonds, wheat, figs, oranges, poppies- to name but a few…
(Meknes is known as the agriculture capital of Morocco…we can see why!)

local towns and people…

Hard working donkeys…

and into Fes where we would be staying for the night 🙂

Finally our riad in Fes – which gave us a lovely welcome of Moroccan whiskey (I.e. Mint tea) and coconut biscuits.

We had a brief break before gaming the medina for dinner. Nathan did an amazingly incredible job finding the restaurant Cafe Clock which has live music on Sunday nights. We ordered an eastern- western combination- lamb burger, lamb tangine, hummus plate & fries – surprisingly the winning dish was the lamb tangine!

Observations thus far:

• We won’t be needing those shorts and knee length skirts that we packed
• Meknez – medieval  capital, Casablanca- economic capital, Fes – agricultural capital (apparently Marrakesh will be the tourist capital!)