Escape: Fes through pictures

Waiting at Casa Voyager train station (Casablanca). With a snap of a finger.....

We arrived at Gare De Fes (Fes train station)

Ok, that only happens in stories and pictures. Our train was delayed for 40 minutes. We even had time to buy postcards, realised that we had chosen the wrong Mosque pictured in the postcard, ran back to the tobacco shop to exchange, wrote and posted them. The train ride took us 2.5 hours and I had to sit with some really dodgy people and decided that it was best to pretend to sleep before he decides to talk to me.

We rented an apartment for the night in Fes. Our landlord even made the effort to come to the train station to bring us to the apartment.

Our living room. There was a double bed and 2 single beds. The guys took the sofas. Not bad and the cost worked out to be cheaper than staying in a hostel.

By the time we went out to explore Fes, it was already late afternoon. Plus, it is my first time knowing that it is Christmas day but doesn't feel any bit of Christmas spirit.

It is amazing to see that more passengers could still alight the bus even though it's already packed like sardines. I guess this situation is like Malaysia during my parent's generation. I still remember my dad's story of how people squeezed in through the windows of the train just to get seats on a 7 hour long journey from KL to Penang.

Warning: multiple band-like pictures ahead.

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Name of band: Ex-KMBians
Members: 5 girls 2 guys
Formed: 24 December 2009 in Morocco.
Awards: Best photobook 2009

Some random park

Fountains after every 30 steps

On our way to the Medina

The Palace Gates

So far the best snails or escalopes that I've eaten. Chewy but at least it tasted all right. The herbal soup was not bad at all. The stall was just opposite the Royal Palace.

We wanted to visit the medina but the whole area was closed on a Friday. Too bad.

McDonalds which looked like a surau.

Christmas Dinner:

We kept getting these weird looks from passerby even while we were eating and people kept on greeting us with Konnichiwa everywhere we went that at one point, it became really irritating. I guess there's loads of Japanese tourists around but surprisingly we came across only 2 in our entire trip.

First Tagine ordered. It's really delicious. The dish is cooked in that con-shaped clay pot and the ingredients range from stewed lamb to chicken with legumes, carrots and potatoes. Our couscous came in a really big portion served with this huge bowl of gravy. We had a bit of trouble ordering our fruit juices and it turns out that pomme was apple and panache is a mixture of orange, apple and banana.

We even visited the fruit stalls thinking that the fruits will be cheap but we were quite wrong. Most of the fruits are imported. My apple cost me 47 dirham and comparing it to a tagine dish of 50 dirham, I think you can consider that expensive.