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Tamezret
Around Haddej
Toujane. It’s a beautiful town.
Yup, that’s right! That’s a Roman road! It climbs right up through Toujane and up over the mountain. That thing is still in pretty good shape considering it’s close to 2000 years old.
Goats on the move.
Women on the move, too.
The town of Tataouine, namesake for the Star Wars planet where Luke Skywalker grew up and Anakin Skywalker was a slave, is relatively new by Tunisian standards. It was built by the French near the turn of the century because at the time there wasn’t one central town that they could rule the area from. We stopped at the best hotel, located just outside town, to unload the people in the group still feeling a bit under the weather from some bad harissa they ate in El Jem. From there, the physically fit people continued onto Chenini, not to be confused with Karim’s oasis of Chenini. This is Ksour country.
Thar be dinosaurs in Tataouine! There’s a dinosaur museum just outside of town where there are a few sets of skeletal remains on display. It seems only appropriate that this rough landscape once was the playground of such beasts.
The hotel we stopped at had a very nice pool. Too bad it wasn’t heated!
Heading out of town toward Chenini at sunset.
Before we left Tataouine completely, I made the bus stop for pictures at this sign.