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Day 11
... pottery, and cloth. We spent our night in a nearby citizens house. The decorations were all towards the king, Sundiata. We asked the owners abut their history and how the civilization was. We were informed that they believe in religious freedom and they are Islam, like ...
General info on Tunisia Trip (best trip EVER)
... here are absolutely AMAZING and everyone should go to this country at some
point in their life. :)
Here is a short list of some of the major events I did with my fellow students. I will do separate blog entries for each day, but that may take a while. So here is a bit of an overview.
- visited the US embassy in Tunis and meet with several State Department ...
Tunis, Sidi Bou Said and Carthage
26 OCTOBER 2010 - Happy Birthday Troy. We arrived at the hotel in the early hours of Troy’s birthday. I had no sleep because of everything that happened yesterday and early this morning I was so worked up. We headed to breakfast which was really nice in this nice hotel. We then had a rest in the room for a while and then headed to an internet cafe to ring the family. It took us about 3 hours to find one, it was nice to talk to every one ...
Day trip to Tunis area
... El Kantaoui, missed nothing since it was already kind of dark and rain was lashing.
Had my birthday dinner in Les Emirs at the marina. It was raining heavily again so had to stay inside, the marina still like a ghost town anyway - hope it's only due to weather. Nice food and good service in Les Emirs... Had a very tasty vegetarian couscous and fell in love with Tunisian aperitif - Muscat de Tunesie - have to remember to buy some at the airport!
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Into Africa
... and I arrived into Marseille at 5:30. The directions to the hostel were brilliant, and I checked in and was out the door again half an hour later. I walked down to the port to investigate ferries to Tunisia and stopped by a bakery on the way back, where I talked to a really lovely man who warned me about pickpockets. Walked back home and met up with an English girl in my room who introduced me to a guy from Quebec, and we stayed up until 1 am giggling and talking ...