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Day 3 Part 2 – Volubilis and beyond
Volubilis is pretty cool. One minute you’re driving along, the next there are a bunch of Roman columns and walls rising out of the farmland. We skipped paying for a guide, choosing instead to wander theĀ streets in search of mosaics. One one level, it’s sad that Roman ruins are just that: ruins. Having previously seen Pompeii, where a lot of the town is still intact, Volubilis was a little bit disappointing in that regard, with few walls standing above waist height, and a lot of the houses quite overgrown. There were sttill some fascinating sites, admiring the stone work on the column tops (L is the one who did…