After the dinner party, the students all headed out to the disco in La Marsa. It’s one of those discos plopped down in the 70’s in Tunisia and left behind as the plaid suits and big hair retreated.
To Chebika
Between Tozeur and Chebika we had to cross yet another chott. There were some interesting sites along the way.
Camels do indeed cross the road unexpectedly.
These reed and palm frond fences are used throughout the south of the country to contain the drifting sands. During the time of French rule, the desert advanced more than 200 kilometers. Since they left back in the 50’s, the Tunisians have beat the desert back using these fences, among other things, all 200 kilometers plus some.
We encountered a herd of camels watering at a shallow pond left behind by the rain. All around the ground was covered with dead and dieing locust. The last couple of years have been bad locust years in this part of Africa. I never understood just what locust were until I saw some up close and personal. I wish I had gotten a few pictures because they just can’t be described.
Tunisia!
Well i finally was able to get a connection to the internet that i could upload pictures over. Check out everything right HERE. i won’t probably do any more updates to the front page for a while, so just go directly to that page for all the new stuff. no promises on when i can add new things though.