Be aware of that, and don’t let them push you. Yet, it’s almost impossible to avoid “hustlers “ who either just want to “help you” and later ask for money or bring you to a store in order cash in on commission. Undercover cops and cameras on every corner aim to keep pickpocketers and fake guides away from visitors. You’ll find the bus terminal right outside the medina.
Usually, Grand Taxis are cheaperīuses run quite frequently from Fez bus terminal and are pretty comfortable. Grand taxis charge per seat while Petit Taxis charge per ride. The price depends on your haggling skills but shouldn’s be more than 150 dirhams. Within the public hammam, one can either pay for a scrub, or you’ll do it to each other.įlights arrive at which lies about xx km outside the city. Every Morracan we met visits a hammam once per week. They get to enjoy the hammams from noon till the evening. The opening hours adapt to the “traditional way of life.” Meaning that men have the opportunity to visit a hammam in the mornings or at night. Men and women have separate times to enter. Where it is common for men to meet at cafes, the hammam often offers the only place for women to meet up and hang out.
We have been told that visiting the hammam also plays an important in social life.
Fez travel skin#
A visit to a hammam is absolute must-do when traveling Morocco! We promise, your skin wasn’t softer since birth! Of course, a lot of hammams catering to tourists have sprung up in chic hotels, but we made the experience that the treatments in local hammams are much more through! You’ll be able to find many of them across the medina and in the new city. Fez has a certain roughness not just visible in its architecture.Įven though many “Fessi” trade their medina home for a more modern home in the novelle city, it is still home to 70 000 people.Ī hammam is a typical Moroccan bathing house. You’ll be able to find century-old grand buildings, stunning hidden plazas, delicate wells behind rustic, decrepit alleys and buildings. Even the city’s waste is carried away on mules. You’ll see tourists roaming the streets, salesmen who seem to be able to talk any language of this world next to mules pulling carts as in the middle ages. It felt cosmopolitan and yet quaint at the same time. Fez, one of the four royal cities of Morroco, was home to respected Imans, artists and scholars is a proud, confident city. As you roam through the streets, you’ll be able to watch artisans apply century old traditions. Moroccans are proud of their traditions and heritage. Some of them more extensive, some of them so narrow you almost didn’t recognize it them as a path. Fez’s old city, the medina consists of more than 9400 alleys. Until today, the medina of Fez is the largest car-free zone in the world. The medina of Fez – the wold’s biggest car-free zone Our beautifully decorated, a two-story room almost took our breath away. We were mesmerized as soon as we entered our “Dar.” Hidden behind a small door, a spacious inner courtyard awaited us. As we followed him through the medina, we were already falling for Fez. Mohammed, our first host, expected us with a big almost toothless grin. We pictured us walking through picturesque arches, wandering narrow alleys, and exploring new flavors. It sounded amazing to just get lost and discover Morroco. The walled “medina” of Fez is known to be a maze to everyone who hasn’t grown up there.
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