17 Apr 2025
Our guide, Amir, picked us up from our hotel, and was very knowledgeable about the history of Fez, and provided us with a really excellent tour of the Medina, or ancient city. The Medina here was nothing like the one in Marrakesh, much more calm, and it was clear that local people were shopping for food and goods, as opposed to the tourist-oriented insanity of Marrakesh. Fez has the oldest continuously operated university in the world, and that was a very interesting part of the tour. The shopping was great--we ended up going home with a variety of leather goods as well as a carpet. It was great to be able to see how they make these goods there, and the same goes for the ceramic factory that we visited outside of the Medina on the way back to our hotel. Overall, the tour was more than 7 hours, which was quite a good bargain, and included a nice place for lunch on our own that our guide picked out This was easily the highlight of our 2-day stay in Fez.