Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Fez/drive to desert

Woke up about 10am and got ready for breakfast and our your if fez. The hotel owner said the tannery (where they ran the leather) is not too far so we were going to do that. Of course after breakfast. We are the hotel prepared breakfast bread (like an English muffin but soggier) a hard fried egg and some other breads. Then the tour guide showed up and we felt obligated to let him show us around. We discussed we had one hour and half. So he brought us through old city to the mosques and the tannery. The tannery is disgusting. They hand out mint leaves so you can clear your nose. They use "pigeon shit" for it's ammonium to bleach the hides. And then a bunch of other natural ingredients to due the hides different colors. Pretty sure it is not OSHA approved. Then we went up some Berber rug making shops where andrea tried her hand at rug making. Don't worry Amy, not gonna quite my day job! It can take six months to make one rug. At the second Berber shop matt and our tour guide were discussing how many camels it would take for the morocco to keep me. 1 million was te dudes offer. We told our personal tour guide after and he said I would give three million camels. Too bad matt got me for zero camels.....
We continued to walk the old city through the manure filled streets and the markets of "fresh food" including fish that stunk. Chickens whih were still clucking and fruits that were edible. Then an hour and a half later from the start of our tour we were back to the hotel tipped the guy 150 dirham (15$) and continued on our way to errichidia where we booked a four star hotel includes breakfast. Google said it would take four hours forty five minutes. Rest assured it was more like 6 hours.

We made good time passing the large slow trucks on the two way roads. Even stopped at a couple stop offs to take in the scenery of the mountains the palm trees and the sandy dunes that were just starting. Made it to our hotel in 6 hours where we were greeted by a dude who took our bags to our room and we then made the already restaurant open so we could have steak spaghetti and an appetizer. We each had a speciale the beer brewed in morocco and decided to go with a bottle of wine from the Atlas Mountains instead. 250 dirham (27$) and now we are ready to pass out. Tomorrow we go to merzouga and ride a camel into the Sahara desert and sleep under te stars with a guide. It may be a couple days before things get updated so don't worry! Plans after that include making it to orZozate. Then somewhere outside Casablanca before flying to amsterdam Monday. Then the states Tuesday. And hopefully home by Wednesday. Work Thursday. Part of our car ride discussion was this isn't really a vacation. It's an adventure. there have been moments of stress (ok maybe a lot of moments of stress) followed by a lot of well, guess we aren't going to do that. But overall it's been a great eye opening trip. Adventure. Matt says he's not sick of me yet, so that's always good. Time for bed. Desert in the morning!!

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