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"I'd like to book a cave for two nights...." Morocco - Part III

There's Casablanca, Rabat, Marrakech (no, we did not visit this city but I know it's there for another time), Fes....wait, let me share a bit of our visit to Fes before we travel onward. Fes is a sprawling metropolis which consists of something along the lines of 14,000 winding streets and alleyways....some that seemingly date back to the 10th century. Unless one wants to get hopelessly and endlessly lost in the labyrinth that is Fes, acquire a reputable tour guide. This way, as we did, we could navigate our way to and around the synogogue, the mosques, the vendors, the tanning vats and the donkeys which are THE mode of transport within the confines of old Fes. Our time in Fes was enhanced by rain which makes those alleyways and streets a tad more challenging to navigate since some of those streets are not as wide as one's umbrella. So teetering and tilting our umbrellas, walking through the muddy lanes of Fes and hoping not to get mowed down by a run-away donkey transporti...