Cap Bon With My Parents

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We rented a car for 14 days to make transit around Tunisia a bit easier. My dad did the driving.

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This is the ancient Punic city of Kerkouane. It’s on the World Heritage Site list put out by UNESCO. We arrived just before the place closed so we had to run around through the site at a breakneck pace. The city was abandoned during the second century BC. The place, aside from being a 5th century BC Club Med for North Africa, produced a dye known to the Romans as Tyrian Purple named after the Phoenician capital, Tyre. The most interesting part of the site is the private bathtubs. Almost every house or villa in the town has its own bathtub. These Punic people liked their privacy!

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A bathtub.

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he interesting floor mosaics. It appears, from a cursory survey of the site, that the Phoenicians didn’t have as many of the photo-like mosaics found in later Roman towns.

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Another bathtub.

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Yet another bathtub.

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The sunset at the tip of Cap Bon.