Day 4: Fez

27 January 2011

 

 

 

 

Toward Fez on a donkey

 

 

 

 

The Sheep Shall Safely Graze

 

 

 

 

The living and the dead

 

 

 

The Medina (old city) of Fez

 

 

 

Receptive to modernity

 

 

 

 

Telecommunications: Hundreds of Dishes and eight Minarets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oriented toward the modern Mecca?

 

 

 

 

 

The Cemetery

 

 

 

Watching

 

 

 

 

 

Entering the Medina

 

 

 

First Impressions

 

 

 

 

Food Market

 

 

 

Fruits and vegetables

 

 

 

 

 

A Meat Market

 

 

 

Scarves

 

 

 

 

Carving gravestones

 

 

 

 

Your name here

 

 

 

 

Tee Shirts

 

 

 

 

Baking bread in a stone oven

 

 

 

 

Headstrong

 

 

 

Choices

 

 

 

 

Coverage

 

 

 

 

 

 Where to now?

 

 

 

 

When  a map doesn't help

 

 

 

Once a hotel, now a museum for wookworking

 

 

The importance of rooftops

 

 

 

 

Transporters

 

 

 

 

Typical market street in the medina

 

 

 

 

Silver shop

 

 

 

 

Entrance to a mosque

 

 

 

 

Men's wedding garment shop

 

 

 

 

Fabrics for the bride

 

 

 

 

 

The courtyard of the medersa

 

 

 

 

Vision test

 

 

 

 

 

Decoration in the courtyard of the Mesersa

 

 

 

 

 

So much to say

 

 

 

 

 

Archway entry into the prayer hall of the medersa

 

 

 

 

A mosque in the medina

 

 

 

 

Metalsmith market

 

 

 

 

Stairs in the Library

 

 

 

 

 

 

More stairs in the library

 

 

 

 

Picture this!

 

 

 

 

Street action

 

 

 

 

A red leather day

 

 

 

 

 

Vats for dyeing leather

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leather tanners and dyers

 

 

 

Fez tannery

 

 

 

 

Scraping the hides

 

 

 

 

Dye transfer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bags in the leathershop

 

 

 

 

Working the loom

 

 

 

 

Ali installing a scarf on Trina

 

 

 

 

 

Scarves # 1

 

 

 

Scarves # 2

 

 

 

 

Scarves # 3


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