From there we met our tour guide, Moustafa. He was only speaking spanish to us at first, he basically became our guide whether we wanted it or not. There was no way we would have seen everything we did or managed by ourselves though. Moustafa was super chill. He loved to speak a bunch of languages with us. He would say it in French then Spanish and in Arabic.
He walked mega fast and took us into every little shop to see the people hand crafting shoes etc. The only picture i have of him is the first one, where hes holding the line of silk someone was spinning in the street.
Picture 2 is of the animal market where people bring chickens and bunnies to sell.
We took one break with Moustafa and had mint tea in a cafe. He told us a little about his life. He has 11 brothers and sisters and his family is of the Berber people. The rest of his family lives in the Sahara desert and gives tours. He was born in Fez and has only travelled a little bit in Morocco. He kept teaching us words in Arabic and Italian and Japanese. He loved saying little things that rhymed.
Picture three is a view from where we were at the ceramic factory.
Picture 4 is of wooden beams holding up buildings in tight streets. Picture 5 was in a communal bakery. He explained to us that because the hand of Fatima has 5 fingers there must be 5 communal things in each community (water fountain (picture 6), bakery, Quran School, and I cant remember the other two..)
Picture 7 another view- green, red, white
Picture 8 the tannery. It was super clearly explained that all the processes used were natural and non chemical/ non harmful. The skins are first washed in a wheel house, then soaked in the white vats on the left consisting of piegeon poop and some other natural stuff, then left to dry and soaked in various natural colors made from paprika, saffron, mint, cedar wood, etc and left to dry again. It didnt smell when we were there due to wind direction.
Picture 9 just some ground near a ceramic factory.
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