Ksar El Amazigh Matmata

Km1 Route de Tamazret, Matmata an Lienne Matmata, Tunisia

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Movings good

A travel blog entry by nacrobat

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... can people watch, trying to figure out the stories unfolding around you. You can read, chat, wander around, get caught up on your blog or write some postcards (yeah, I still do those once in a while) You can snooze (hi there Chisa) or just stare off into space and do nothing at all. It's all good because this is some of the freest time you'll ever have. I love it.

I'm heading south to see ...

Leaving Libya

A travel blog entry by grahamandsarah

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... with a very ingenious system of water distribution from a central spring. We had a guided tour through the town and a traditional Berber lunch in a beautifully decorated house (although the vegetarian couscous had a lot of camel in it)!

There is a very clever way of telling the time for the farmers in old Gadames. In the town squares, time was told in knots. Someone was employed to sit at the water channel with a bucket with a regulation sized hole in ...

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away

A travel blog entry by choy

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... we would stay for a couple of nights to rest up for the coming days. It was a chock coming there. Matmata had been a change to a more common place to visit, with tourists and souvenir stalls. This was something completely different, around our camping site, there only were one all-inclusive resort after the next. Jumping on a cab into the closest town, we were surrounded by souvenir shops all over the place and ...

Sand in your ...

A travel blog entry by dgk

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Well what a day. We drove in 4x4 to an oasis in the Sahara. Arrived in time to swim in the hot spring which was actually cooler than the air temp. At dusk we went on a camal trek into the dunes. K was terrified for about 10 mins and then was a pro (by her own estimation). It was blowy and we were well wrapped. Pics are on K s camera so I will put those up later. Off to Douz ...

A casa di Luke

A travel blog entry by cavallette

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... E non si fa fatica affatto a capirne il motivo... Il nostro albergo è una delle case troglodite meglio conservate (dice la guida), con stanzette e cunicoli scavati nella terra, veramente affascinante. Fra l'altro, la temperatura è decisamente elevata durante il giorno (siamo nel deserto, d'altronde), e dentro queste case si sta stupendamente al fresco. Che paese questa Tunisia... ma lo sapevo che sarebbe stato bello! Prima ...

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