Bardo Museum!

Trip Start Dec 12, 2006
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Trip End Mar 15, 2007


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Saturday, February 24, 2007

It's raining off and on here in Tunis. Occasionally, the sun will come out, but for the most part, it's damp and overcast. I decided to take the Metro light rail train to the Bardo Museum today instead of going out to the suburbs again. It's pretty easy and I was there in about 25 minutes. The museum is housed in an old palace and I'm impressed. There were tons of Roman mosaics and old statues. There were also tons of tourists. Most were from France, but there were some from Germany and I saw one Asian tour group as well.

The museum is well worth the 6 dinar admission and 1 dinar camera usage fee. I spent quite some time studying the murals and I think they used different color stones to make each picture. This is actually more lasting than if they painted them on. I guess that's why a lot of them are a thousand or so years old and still in excellent condition.

I've decided to go to El-Jem tomorrow by train and make that a day-trip. The plan is to wake up early and take the 6 am train, get there by 9 and then leave at 2 p.m. and arrive back in Tunis at 4 p.m...

I saw some really nice postcards at the Bardo Museum gift shop. It was the El-Jem amphitheatre on 3 connected postcards. You can fold it up and send it as one postcard. Very nice stuff. I imagine, you'll pay a bit more in postage to send it though.

Food is pretty good. I had some panini's last night. I think I'll look for Tunisian food today and have myself some couscous.
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