A trip to the 2008 New Year made to accompany a group of 16 campers organized by Size Adventure. "
Depart on the evening of Dec. 26 from Dover, and landing at the port of Tunis the next day in the late afternoon and overnight parking in the convenient parking just outside the harbor where we meet crews from Genoa with another ferry. The next day, along a ring road, climb over Tunis, where we will stop at the back and head toward Le Kef, Gafsa and reach, when the sun is down, the oasis of Tamerza, almost on the Algerian border. Identified easily in the palm rest area at the camper and we settle the first taste of Tunisian cuisine at a nearby restaurant. Saturday, December 29
devote the early hours of the morning to visit the oasis of palm trees and its Tamerza then we move to Douz, stopping Chebika oasis, an ancient Roman outpost along which originated dall'oued Khang do a better walk up to a small pond where you throw a waterfall. The large parking lot at the beginning of the oasis we can stop for lunch. Later we cross the great salt lake Chott el Jerid, a unique show that every tourist should see in Tunisia, when the sun is up and burning you can easily watch the phenomenon of mirages.
the rain waiting for us in Douz, camping and the access road is a sea of \u200b\u200bmud so that once settled in camp we decided to postpone the day after each activity.
December 30
. Habib hours of good, our local guide, is waiting for us with off-road and drivers for the excursion to the oasis of Ksar Ghilane. The most adventurous journey, in fact along a track that enters the Great Eastern Erg, bypassing numerous sand dunes we arrive at the small oasis of Ksar Ghilane where, despite being winter, we can take a swim in his lake of hot water at 34 ° . Return to camp in time with a visit to Douz in a typical restaurant where Habib our organized a camel couscous with meat ... ... a delicacy.
Monday, December 31. The Ksar of the south. First we visit Ksar Ouled Soltane with the most beautiful ghorfa southern Tunisia, four storeys high, have been masterfully restored.
Even a stop at the village of Chenini built on the hillside in the twelfth century: a spectacular place still partly used to store grain. In the afternoon we reach
Matmata where we are welcomed in the large square that serves as a bus station.
The evening we spend in a restaurant in the village where, after dinner, Tunisia, authorized by the owner and celebrate the New Year with panettone and sparkling brought for the occasion by our campers.
1 January 2008. Unfortunately, time is running out and visited Matmata with its troglodyte houses we route to reach North and El Jem. Let us pause in a nice and organized structure behind the amphitheater.
We visit the town amphitheater, a UNESCO World Heritage monument, built in the third century AD that can accommodate 30,000 people.
The next day we start early and reach Kairouan,
one of the seven holy cities of Islam, where she awaits Nori, our local guide, which makes us take a quick tour of the city without neglecting the magnificent Grand Mosque, the Medina and the cooperative of weavers of carpets noteworthy because it is the capital of Tunisia Kairouan carpet. few more kilometers and we are in Tunis to which we dedicate all the remaining hours of our stay Tunisian, one of us will take the ship to Genoa on the morning of January 3 and the remainder of the group that evening to Civitavecchia.
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