Meet Fes, The Largest Medieval Settlement In The World

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Located in the northeastern part of Morocco, Fes is the oldest city in Morocco and capital of the Kingdom in the 13th century. Beside a home for the oldest university in the world, Fes El Bali or Medina of Fes is also known both as the largest medieval settlement and great city of Islamic civilization. Found in 789 A.D by Moulay Idriss II, the city had became the center of Islamic education, cultures, arts and place where people met who were coming. from other part of the world. Today, Fes is known as the third largest city in Morocco, following Casablanca and the capital Rabat.

Fes, Morocco

Fes, Morocco

Fes, Morocco

I arrived in Fes at 11 am after taking three hours train journey from Casablanca. What I did at the first time I stepped my feet in the city was getting my ticket to Meknes in the next two…

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Casablanca, First Leg Got Me To Morocco

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I was always curious about Morocco for some reasons that I couldn’t describe by words. I didn’t even know exactly what it was. Maybe I was curious about the landscape of Mount Atlas. Or maybe about the Berber tribes living there in centuries. Or I just wanted to feel the sensation to ride onto the camel in the middle of Sahara. Perhaps all those could be the reason. Therefore, in one October, after getting approval from my chief, I took a bit longer RnR to visit Morocco in two weeks.

Casablanca became my first leg, of course, since most of airlines coming from all around the world would land in international airport located in this city. It’s the largest city in Morocco and home for industrial and economic activities. I didn’t have any difficulties while I arrived at the airport. As Indonesian citizen, I was not required to pay the…

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On the Train, in Morocco

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I love to travel by train. If I have been given a choice to choose of transportation mode, I would be glad to say loudly, “train”, as long as I had the time limit for my travel. Morocco has one of the easiest and cheapest transportation system that I found in the entire my traveling history. Most of big cities have the train access and its stations are located in the city center, makes it easy to reach by petite taxi, no matter where you stay. Since I was traveling to most of mainstream travel destinations, I didn’t have so much time to see how the other part of Morocco looks like. How their people live their life, or how life had treated them so far. Traveling by train gave me chances to see other part of the country. I could see how people starting their life in the morning…

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Let Me Take You To the Egyptian Countryside

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PJ Harvey said, “People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses. Country life offers so much beauty that people always tend to forget about the hardships and problems that hide beneath that beauty. Country life is simple, but not always easy. The rose-colored glasses might make us forget that, once we want to embrace the beauty of country life, we also must embrace its roughness

This week, Amy challenged us to share the view of countryside where we’ve been visited. It took me a while to figure it out while trying to find some moments I spent at the countryside. When I was looking at my external hard disk, I accidentally opened the photo files when I was in Egypt. I almost forgot about it since I visited the country like many years ago. I decided to look for more, and found some shots showing…

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