Tuesday, September 10th
We had a relaxed start today and a pretty light program which was actually a nice change. The rest of the tour is lower key than the first half had been.
We made our way in from the outskirts of town where our Riad is located to visit a tannery once again. This one was much more of a working tannery than the one in Marrakesh. They showed us the process right from the scraping of the flesh from the hide through to putting the parts of shoes together to come up with the finished product. The show room was full of purses, shoes, belts, wallets, hats, etc. I bought two small purses of beautiful leather, all lined, with excellent workmanship for about $60 Cdn. By now I am wondering about the wisdom of bringing a small suitcase.
Then we entered that medina of the town. It is a smaller one that we have been to so far, the walls being 8 kms around, with over 100 towers built into the walls. It is a strategic location for protecting SW Morocco being only 30 minutes into the High Atlas Mountains, 30 minutes into the Anti Atlas Mountains and 30 minutes to the Atlantic Ocean.
We went into the main square by bus and then had an hour to wander the medina. After all the Medina’s and souks and cooperatives we’ve been in to there wasn’t a lot of appetite for buying but still some of our group managed to do a little shopping, including the purchase of a suitcase for carting their purchases home. I enjoyed the people watching from a table in the square while enjoying a glass of hot tea with some of our group.
By early afternoon we were back to the hotel and have the rest of the day free to enjoy the hotel and pool. I’ve been in already, did some aquafit and laps and finished up writing a couple of days worth of blogs. I will head to the hotel reception area to use the faster and stronger wifi there to insert pics and upload the blogs.
Tomorrow we’ll be hiking in a gorge somewhere. Haven’t read up on that yet, it sounds great. Could use some exercise.
Lois' Adventures 