Zen Hotel Tabarka

... di arancia, bergamotto e arancio amaro. Questo sono i fiori di gelsomino e arancione. Si tratta di una bella località con i suoi alberghi di lusso, locali ...

... tuo, non dovrebbe essere troppo
difficile in seguito. Si può prendere in considerazione l'allenamento
golf come il primo passo della pratica ...

... travelers took camel rides while we wandered the area. We traveled by the Chott El Jerid, a huge, largely dry, salt lake where eerie figures of salt where built by folks along the roadway. Here we also saw a desert fox, the fennec, a tiny, pale yellow, large-eared creature which was really cute. We visited synagogues and mosques (few of which we were allowed in to visit), a Berber home built into the mountains, souks, medinas ...

The majority of the group enjoys a full-day excursion to the ancient Roman city of Dougga today. This is a first for me, as we didn't include Dougga last year. We head southwest out of Tunis, through fertile lands with grape vineyards and olive groves, glimpsing the occasional jagged peak in the distance northwards.

Our first stop is at the fascinating Andalusian Muslim town called ...

We say goodbye to one tour member this morning. At 10am several of us go with the guide into the medina again. Two of us break away to visit a local hammam. This is an experience more like the one in Morocco, with hard skin scraping and back cracking.

I shop for birthday gifts for one of our tour members, then return to the hotel to get awards and tips organized. The party begins at six ...

... of the Prophet Mohammad), and the Great Mosque which is one of the oldest (and largest) places of prayer in the Islamic world, and the fourth most important pilgrimage destination after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. So we missed the noon deadline to enter the courtyard and peer into the Mosque itself, but now the Imam is giving the Friday sermon and the doors are wide open, and even though we cannot take photos we are ...

It's funny to haggle with the Tunisians in their markets, but Tunis disappointed me a little... it's dirty, have an strange smell like a mixture of spices and sweat... there just a few places to visit and they are so careless with their highlights... but after that we visited Sidi Busaid, I recommend this place instead of Tunis because of his streets and views

... the next day. Interestingly, the same night I attended a politically-engaged concert at Bourguiba University. On the University campus, you are actually allowed to have this kind of manifestation, but the police found a more efficient way to infiltrate the system by placing agents in the student associations, sometime causing turmoil to de-stabilize possibly problematic associations. It was a good show, althought most of it being in arabic, my ...

We've been in Tabarka for the past couple of days and tomorrow we head South to Le Kef. From there we'll be exploring the kasbah and local surroundings in Le Kef and taking a day to travel and see the ruins in Dougga. It's going to be a bit tricky, the louages don't travel to these places but near them and we sure don't want to be hauling heavy rucks around the ruins. After Dougga we'd like to check out Maktar, more ruins, before heading to Kerouain.
Tabarka has been good. I'm burned again ...