MOROCCO'S MOST INTENSE CITY: FEZ | Lost in the medina & major culture shock

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Location: Fez, Morocco
Recorded: February 28 - March 3, 2023
Vlog 113
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This is another multi day vlog!
We took a 4 and a half hour bus from Chefchaouen to Fez. The bus ride was surprisingly smooth and nice! Upon arrival, we drove to our Airbnb by taxi and Matt got fake kidnapped by the driver.
The next day, we took a full day tour of the Fez "Medina." However, it turned out our guide was banned for some reason, and wasn't able to actually enter the Medina. It started off well, and we enjoyed visiting the north castle and the Roman ruins. After this though, he took us to a bunch of shops to get sold by his friends for 2+ hours, and then to a "local" lunch that cost $30+ USD. He proceeded to take us to his private Airbnb for some reason, located over 45 minutes out of the city.
We were super uncomfortable, and while everything turned out ok, we highly recommend that you book a sanctioned tour with reviews, at least while in Fez.
On our last day in Fez, we explored the tanneries and the oldest university in the world, before packing to leave the next day!
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:32 Taking a bus from Chefchaouen to Fez
2:30 Arriving in Fez and checking out our Airbnb
3:16 Dinner in Fez
3:53 Breakfast in Fez
5:46 Taking a day tour of Fez
6:55 Checking out the Fez North Castle
8:18 Visiting an active archaeological dig site
10:18 Learning how Fez ceramics are made
12:11 Driving 40 minutes away to have lunch…
14:21 Forced to go to our tour guides Airbnb…
15:10 Fez gardens
15:46 Don’t do what we did
18:10 Breakfast at our new Riad
18:25 Checking out the Fez tanneries & the oldest university in the world
19:45 Attempting to find cash & dinner
20:50 GIVEAWAY!
21:37 Bloopers & thanks for watching!

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Комментарии : 77

@abuzaine3956 Год назад

Yes, those aren't Roman ruins. Fes was always one of the imperial (capital) cities of Morocco. So when one dynasty conquered Fes they would build over the previous one. Volubilis, Tangier, and Larache is where you can see Roman ruins.

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Oh noooo 😂😂😂. So fitting of that tour lol. Guy just lied to us I guess haha. Thanks for the correction!

@houtianas1596 Год назад

It s merinids dynasty may be he dont know about the history it s an old dynasty rulled morocco that time and it was famous with his archetecture u know he did will the guide because lot of tourists can t reach the north tower

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

@@houtianas1596 well after we visited those we took the Roman ruins off our list because we thought we visited them 😂. The guide straight up told us those were the Roman ruins

@radouanezahi5007 Год назад

@@patriciaandmatt from what i can see from the video, i think he didn't fully understand the question, u asked and he said yes automatically as an instant reply, we moroccans tend to say yes instantly and then try to process the question. And if he did say yes those are roman ruins that's another story haha

@salaheddinetabbouche9726 Год назад

Amazing.

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Thank you! Cheers!

@robbybaggio4007 Год назад

Just came across your channel today. I'm loving the Morocco videos. I will re-watch the vids with my daughters (14 & 11). We are planning to go to Morocco this summer. It will be their first time there

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Awesome! Thank you for watching. Please let us know if we can help with your planning in any way. ☺️

@youssefbenjelloun4863 Год назад

Diring summer, consider avoiding continental cities like Fez and Marrakesh. Stay rather near the Atlantic or Mediterranean coasts where day temperatures remain tolerable.

@robbybaggio4007 Год назад

@@youssefbenjelloun4863 Thanks Si Youssef. Fully agree with you. Both my parents are from Fez and I grew up in Tetuouan, which is a great place to be in the summer. We plan to go to Casa for a wedding and then head north for the beach and make a few stops in Rabat and Tangier so my kids can experience those cities as well and not just the beach in Totuoan

@michelebishop8134 Год назад

Great idea with the random selection of sending post cards to subscribers! Side note -- can't wait to see the Sahara vlog, and P, your OJ tastes have drastically changed since you were little. LOL!

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Don’t worry we have some coming your way too 😂😂. Patricia thought of it!!

@ben__elb Год назад

Wishing you a fantastic adventure in Morocco.. enjoy every moment, Bon voyage!😄

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Thank you so much!! We love it. Hope you enjoyed the vlog, and stick around! Lots more to come

@sagikaki8773 Год назад

Bravo

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Thank you :-)

@zinebkarimi5671 Год назад

Great walk in Fes 😋👍🇨🇦

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Haha it was certainly a wild experience!!

@maxlenardo5766 Год назад

Your very good to guide us in Morocco

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Haha thanks 😁😁

@Toufaha Год назад

I like my city Fez ❤❤❤❤

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

It certainly was an awesome experience!

@adamyouness6701 Год назад

the food is organic that 's the reason why it tastes good

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

It’s awesome food :-)

@yousseflaaguid660 Год назад

Hi Patricia & Matt, thank you for the video, sorry for the local guide experience, this your first experience, it's preferable to verify the guide, he is not a guide but he is an owner is this case :( Fes is the heart of Morocco, more than 12 centuries of history, Moroccan jewishs they lived in different cities of Morocco, for example Essouira city is known by the number of synagogue, I guess more than 40 synagoges. Greetings and you are most welcome.

@HM-bu8gr Год назад

Thank you for sharing those lovely videos from Fes. Its my city that left 30 years ago to go to CT (USA). I see that Fes did not change lot, its a city that has been neglected and missmanaged due to some corrupted mayors and governors

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Yes it’s quite an intense experience to visit. I don’t think I’d do it by ourselves again, probably would do an organized tour 😂

@realitytube6290 2 месяца назад

@Patricia and Matt Your guide showed you honour and respect even though you guys might find it weird is due to in America and Europe there is none of this hospitality as it can end up in a crime being commited by the culprit thats why you may find it uncomfortable.

@yonasco14 Год назад

I'm Moroccan and the only Medina I would never stay in is the Fez Medina, kudos to you guys though. Fez is just a not a city I would go to by myself in general, I feel like there is so much corruption there when the city could be doing much better than its current state.

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

You said it right! We learned our lesson, but we certainly made the most of it. :)

@Disgustingmondays 9 месяцев назад

Sat, kolchi ka3i mn dakchi li dar dik l9lawi mais maghadich nty7o mn bladna bach nfr7o lberrani, kon rajl

@tifrhalt79 Год назад

You’re definitely right,roads in Morocco are good shape,actually better than roads in Massachusetts Boston to be precise,just got a flat tire today driving over a pothole.

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

They really are! It was a pleasure driving all over!! One of the best road infrastructures we’ve ever witnessed!!

@Disgustingmondays 9 месяцев назад

Fun fact: The "Fake" tour guide could have gone to jail for pretending to be a guide, thus, he was avoiding going to the old medina, because that's where most of the tourists go and so, police men are more serious about people like him .. I was born and raised in the old medina of Fes, I lived there my whole life yet, i once walked with 4 friends that came in a student exchange program towards the Clock cafe and i got stopped more than once, even my friends got fed up with it !! As for the airbnb thing, he thought he coupd sneak in a promotion for his business, and so is the case for the shops he took you to .. Those are usually his friends !!

@patriciaandmatt 8 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching and commenting!! I appreciate the story :-)

@igorotanomad Год назад

Yup! I wanted the post card please! I super love the channel since nepal vlogs. Also wanting to explore Vang Vieng by your vlogs soon. Thank you in advance.

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

We are so glad you’ve enjoyed our vlogs so far :). Thanks for watching! We enjoy making them! Hope you make it to Vang Vieng because it’s so much fun. We will let you know about the postcard soon ;)

@hamididaif Год назад

Welcom to moroco 🤩

@igorotanomad Год назад

@@patriciaandmatt thank you and i’m so excited about it! 🙏🏻💌

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

@@igorotanomad Hello! I hope you are doing well :). We’ve selected you as one of the postcard winners! When you get a chance, shoot us an email at matt@patriciaandmatt.com with your address so we can send it over! We also just want to give you a huge thanks for keeping up with the channel and we are happy you enjoy the vlogs!

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

@@hamididaif thanks for the welcome :-)

@sofianebenz7227 Год назад

9 : 12" 😅💪

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

😂😂

@goxaline Год назад

In 12:36 th guy said "its forbidden for me to go with you to the MEDINA"!! Did you pay attention to this?? In fact, its clear he's not an official guide.

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Yes we made a few mistakes 😳. Don’t do what we did but luckily everything was ok!

@houtianas1596 Год назад

The tour out of the medina it was fantastic but the problem u didn t see nothing in fez like u didn t visites inside the medina there 9600 alleyways lot of beautiful things u can find and never start u day early in the medina until 11 or after noon is better i wish u come back one day and find more welcome to fez

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Yeah the main problem is that we paid for a Medina tour lmao. Also, the tour outside the Medina didn’t include the waterfalls, south castle, walking on the walls, Roman ruins etc. it included us driving for an hour and a half to his personal house and going to his friends stores to get sold 😂

@sadawimohamed4487 Год назад

❤️🇲🇦👍👍

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

😁😁

@nicolapowell5670 Год назад

Fes looks amazing defintley going to visit 😊 yes unfortunately he scammed you big time 30 dollars is what 300 dirham? That price included his commision !!!

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Yes 300 MAD! We were pretty shocked but didn’t know what to say 💀. All in all it turned out ok but be careful in fes!!

@MrOlman123 Год назад

@@patriciaandmatt He should have just charged you 30 bucks an hour for touring you around . period! Why are you screaming about being scammed? He has a family to feed. Do he not?! And you bozos yap yap yap

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

@@MrOlman123 if you ever travel to Morocco you clearly know this was a scam, we already paid him beforehand, and he was restricted from entering the Medina so we didn’t even get the tour we paid for. Thanks for watching!

@houtianas1596 Год назад

Not really scammed u know inside the medina u need a legal guide if they catch him.inside he will go to prison u know 300 dh that s not a lot dont be frustrated

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

@@houtianas1596 yes but when we booked the tour, we paid for a legal guide to take us into the Medina 😂. That’s the tour we wanted and paid for. And if you watch our channel, we are traveling for a year! And to make that happen, we travel on the extreme budget side of things. That means we try never to spend more than 500-600 MAD, and absolutely never spend more than 800 MAD in a day, so just the lunch was half of our entire daily budget! It might not be a lot for you, but it’s a lot for us!

@sagikaki8773 Год назад

Tankyo

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Thank you for watching :-)

@tifrhalt79 Год назад

It can’t be camel,camel meat is expensive way more expensive than beef or lamb

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Well it was $30 lmao 😂😂.

@mz14mohamedd Год назад

Moroccan food is not dry, you didn't try moroccan food yet...

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Make sure to watch to the end😂. We take back what we said!

@mz14mohamedd Год назад

@@patriciaandmatt yeah i did watch, sorry i wrighted the comment at the time you said it 😅

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

@@mz14mohamedd no worries hope you enjoyed the vlog anyway😂😂

@mz14mohamedd Год назад

Ofc i did enjoyed it, i did watch all 4 last videos of yours😁

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

@@mz14mohamedd thank you so much! Lots more to come in North Africa :-)

@kareembouh Год назад

lack of information , loud music , out of historical monuments places , bad english , of course he is not an official tour guide, try to search about a qualified one next time and who have a badge with him and there is no forbidden places for him .

@patriciaandmatt Год назад

Yeah we had no idea!! We had made a deal for a tour with a different guy the day before who showed us his badge and was very well spoken. But when we got picked up, it was not him!!!

@kareembouh Год назад

@@patriciaandmatt that was fraud ,when u travel to another country try to tell to the tour guide which places you want to discover exactly the new city or the old one , make a plan , don't let them to take you wherever they want , eating in their restaurent or visiting their friends house to rent , sorry of what happened to you in my beautiful city there is alot of wonderfull things you can see actualy , fez its an open musuem , hope you guys are not mad of happened to u .