LONELY PLANET: ROADS LESS TRAVELLED

Travel writer John Vlahides explores the road less travelled in Morocco on assignment for Lonely Planet. Vlahides crosses the Atlas Mountains on a journey from the Imperial city of Fez to the dunes of the Sahara Desert.

Travel writer John Vlahides explores the road less travelled in Morocco on assignment for Lonely Planet. Vlahides crosses the Atlas Mountains on a journey from the Imperial city of Fez to the dunes of the Sahara Desert.

Travel writer John Vlahides explores the road less travelled in Morocco on assignment for Lonely Planet. Vlahides crosses the Atlas Mountains on a journey from the Imperial city of Fez to the dunes of the Sahara Desert. Vlahides in a archway in Fez.

Hide tanners stand calf-deep in dye vats in Fez, Morocco.

The walled old quarter of Fez cloaks the foothills of the Rifs.