Photo : Corbis
Fes is also a secret place with tatty doors concealing magnificent palaces and mosques (closed, of course, to non-Muslims). Some have been converted to restaurants and hotels.
Visitors must be prepared for some hassle when wandering around the souks, but on nowhere near the scale found at Marrakech. Fes is a self-contained city of 200,000 people: the tourists are almost an irrelevance, whereas in Marrakech sellers are all over you. The people in Fes are far friendlier and cultured.
Presumably, Marrakech has been overpowered by tourists for years so they have become more grasping. A pity.
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