After a night in Chefchaouen, we carried all of our bags back up the mountain and were back on the road first thing in the morning. Our next stop: Moulay Idriss.

To the Moroccans, Moulay Idriss is a holy city – it is here that Moulay Idriss the I. arrived in 789 and brought with him Islam. He just so happens to be the same guy who founded Fez.

The mausoleum of Moulay Idriss the I. is just off the main square, however only Muslims are permitted to enter.

The city is built on top of two hills, and anyone can take a shot at reaching the top through the typical narrow, winding alleys between the buildings.

And much like in Rabat, Fez or really any of the Moroccan places I saw, there were cats everywhere. How many cats can you spot in the photo below?

After checking into the hotel that we would spend the coming night in (though admittedly my room felt more like a prison cell, and the bathroom didn’t have a door), we got back into the van to drive the five kilometers to Volubilis. The city used to be the capital of the Kingdom of Mauritania, and then rapidly expanded as a Roman colonial town. The Romans never ended up going much further south than where the ruins of Volubilis can be found to this day.

Even today, Volubilis still has some residents, though they aren’t human:

Volubilis itself is considered an unusually well-preserved Roman town. Walking through the ruins, you can really get an impression of what life might have been like here once upon a time. In a number of buildings, you can still see mosaics on the floor.

The sun started being lower and lower over the horizon, providing some really good light for photography.

Then came a dramatic sunset – the last one I’d see while touring through northern Morocco, as we were heading back to Rabat and then Casablanca for our last few days in the country.

With dramatic sunsets come… dramatic closeups of Jenna’s left eye?

The sun set, we headed back to our residence for the night, to try to get some rest before heading back the Kingdom’s capital early in the morning the next day. But not before taking some final farewell-photos of Volubilis.