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"Berber" room pool area Nice view from the pool Fake camel and well

Le Diar el Barbar Matmata

Matmata, 6070, Tunisia

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Movings good

A travel blog entry by nacrobat

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... dwellings of Matmata and the city of Tataouine, both which figure prominently in Star Wars' lore as Luke's desert home...also will check out ksour, the ancient structures that best typifies Berber architecture and a few other cool things in the area. Home base for now is Gabes, nothing too exciting here except for what I hope will be the amazing palmerie which I`ll go visit tomorrow.
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Leaving Libya

A travel blog entry by grahamandsarah

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... They filled the bucket from the channel and watched it drain. Once a bucket had drained they tied a knot in a bit of rope and started again. Farmers bought shares in the water supply – one share equaled one knot. So, if you bought 200 shares, you got the water supply (directed down irrigation channels using stones to block and direct the flow) for the time it took for 200 buckets to empty. You were told that your supply started at a certain time ...

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

A travel blog entry by choy

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... them cafes and restaurants. The upside was that they were more familiar with foreign languages, french and english, but mainly german. There were quite a large number of germans in addition to the french that liked to visit the francophone countries.

Languagewise it was a big shift. In Algeria, it was French first and Arabic second, here it was the other way around. Whilst french speaking, Arabic always came ...

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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... qui siamo andati all'oasi di Ksar Ghilane, il punto pił a sud che riesca a visitare con ragionevole facilitą (ci arriva, da non molto credo, una strada asfaltata oltre ad un miliardo di piste su cui non ci siamo avventurati, da brave personcine giudiziose). Ci si spinge verso sud per circa 70 km in mezzo al nulla, una pietraia che diventa piano piano sabbia, abitata da rare famiglie berbere (credo) con pecore al pascolo. E lo so ...

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