Saturday, December 3, 2011

Fez Tanneries

Our local guide Kolom showed us around Fez's Medina (a medina is the old part of the city.) This one was huge with over 12,000 streets winding down into the ground and up up up.

There is so much to see and do there. One thing that caught my attention was the smells. Sweet, sour, dank, yummy, fragrant, rotten and so many in betweens, sometimes all mixing together.

Guess what this smells like?:



A camel head outside the butcher's stall

We went to a local tannery too. The Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha, where people sacrifice animals, has just ended so the tannery was very busy.




The dyes used on the skins



A man putting a skin in the liquid








The finished product


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1 comment:

  1. What was the finished product? It kind of looks like a little purse or a pillow from the picture. What was it? R.I.P. Camel

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