Tunisia Photo Gallery by Liz at pbase.com

Tunisia

Another great Overseas Adventure Travel trip! I went in February, 2009, for 2 weeks, with a group of 14. Much colder than expected, also several days of rain. Would recommend travel in Tunisia in May, June, late September or October instead! Most of the museums, and some of the restaurants are unheated. Other than that, it was a fantastic experience-- from the white & blue coastal towns to the harsh but fascinating desert-- everything was interesting. The food was excellent, too!

Buffet at the 5-star Africa Hotel in Tunis	Buffet at Africa Hotel	Buffet at Africa Hotel - Note carved veggies	Buffet at Africa Hotel - spoiled for choice!
Buffet at Africa Hotel - Tunisian seafood & rice	Buffet at Africa Hotel - stuffed calamari	Buffet at Africa Hotel - elegant desserts!	Buffet at Africa Hotel - elegant desserts!
Tunis - excavated ancient water system	Beautiful Sidi Bou Said, near Tunis	Sidi Bou Said	Sidi Bou Said
Sidi Bou Said	Sidi Bou Said	Sidi Bou Said - those lovely blue doors everywhere	Sidi Bou Said
Street in Sidi Bou Said	Sidi Bou Said	Unique souvenir shop in Sidi Bou Said	Another gorgeous doorway in Sidi Bou Said
Storm clouds over Sidi Bou Said	Inviting doorway, Sidi Bou Said	Restaurant, Sidi Bou Said	Sidi Bou Said
Orange juice anyone? Sidi Bou Said	Carthage, near Tunis - part of the ancient Roman port/boat basin	Ali (our guide) explains original port design	Historic house at Carthage boat basin
Carthage, World Heritage Site	Carthage, baths entry	Carthage - walkway to baths complex	Carthage - lovely view approaching baths
Carthage - seaside baths complex	Carthage - seaside baths complex	Carthage - seaside baths complex	Carthage - seaside baths complex
Carthage - what baths looked like in Roman times	Inside Carthage baths	Inside Carthage baths	Inside Carthage baths
Carthage - fallen ornate architectural detail	American WWII Cemetery, in the rain	Proprietor of small kosher restaurant, "Mamie Lily, " in La Goulette	Terracotta wine bottle covers at Mamie Lily
Kitchen staff at Mamie Lily	Bardo Museum, Tunis	Baptismal piece - Bardo Museum, Tunis	Learning about incredible Roman mosaics at Bardo Museum
Hunting scene mosaic - Bardo Museum	Bardo Museum - once a Bey's palace	Carved ceiling details - Bardo Museum	Hand carved wall detail, Bardo Museum
Elegant door, Bardo Museum	Tiles & carved details, Bardo Museum	Roman sculpture - Bardo Museum	Bardo Museum
Ceiling, Bardo Museum	Fanciful mosaic, Bardo Museum	Architectural detail, Bardo Museum	BIG foot, Bardo Museum
Big foot's owner, Bardo Museum	Exquisite carved details, Bardo Museum	Beautiful niche, Bardo Museum	Islamic section, Bardo Museum
Tunis traffic circle, near the Medina	Tunis traffic circle, near the Medina	Tunis - in the Medina	Narghille Cafe in the Medina
Medina hat shop - we learn how the "shechia" is made	Tunis Medina street with Zitouna mosque minaret	Medina shop - wedding baskets, given by groom's family to bride	Interesting shop, Tunis Medina
Perfume shop, Tunis Medina	The venerable Zitouna, The Great Mosque	Tunis - Arch at Place de la Victoire	Place de la Victoire, Tunis
Elegant Theatre Municipal on Ave. Habib Bourguiba, Tunis	Dinner out at the Dar El Jeld, in the Kasbah, Tunis Medina	Zither player at Dar El Jeld	Diners Louise, Clyde, George & Judith at Dar El Jeld
The rest of the group at Dar El Jeld	Stop at a citrus stand, enroute to Dougga	View of farm land, enroute to Dougga	Young salesman at citrus stand
Visit to small farm town, Testour - laden donkey cart	Men at cafe, Testour	Catching up, cafe in Testour	Main Street, Testour
Testour tailor - we learn how he makes the "cachabia," the winter coat of Tunisian men	Side street, Testour - 4 men & a motorbike	Testour - 2 men & a motorbike	Pedestrians walk by colorful shop, Testour
Muffin box	Here's the beef - Testour	Moooooo!	Ali buys us Tunisian sheep cheese in Testour
Donkey cart, Testour	Donkey cart, Testour	View of local mosque, Testour	Street scene, Testour
More men at a cafe, Testour	Date seller, Testour	Dougga - one of the best-preserved Roman ruins in Tunisia	Dougga
Dougga	Dougga	Dougga - high on a hill... fiercely cold & windy the day we were there	Dougga - amphitheatre
Roman sculpture, Dougga	Dougga - excavated Roman street	Dougga	Dougga
Dougga - view of Capitol	Dougga - approach to Forum & Capitol	Dougga - the impressive Capitol	Dougga - sepia view, Capitol & partial remains of Ottoman wall
Dougga - Forum, with shops in background	Dougga panorama	Dougga - sepia panorama	Dougga - Capitol
Dougga - hitching post	Dougga - Dar el-Achab doorway (sepia)	Dougga - original mosaic floor, in situ	Dougga - sepia rendition of baths dressing room
Dougga - spectacular arch to Lycinian baths	Dougga - sepia photo of columns	Dougga panorama	Dougga - public toilets
Double rainbow on the way back from Dougga (shot through bus window)	Nabeul - famous for pottery & stone carving. Visit to stone cutter's shop (Dar Chaban)	Nabeul - stone cutter's products	Outside stone cutter's shop, Nabeul
Nabeul - stone cutter	Nabeul - would you take your child to a Dr. Gastli?	Nabeul - Market Day	Nabeul - Market Day
Nabeul - side street scene	Nabeul - Market Day	Nabeul - carpet shop	Nabeul - cafe entrance
Nabeul - still life with oranges	Nabeul - architectural details	Nabeul - hair salon	Nabeul pottery
Hammamet - beached boats	Hammamet - Kasbah (Fort) walls - entrance to Medina/Souk	Hammamet Medina	Hammamet - Kasbah walls - inside Medina
Hammamet Medina	Elegant doorway in Hammamet Medina	Hammamet Medina - Mosque minaret	Hammamet Medina - yellow door usually means bath house or hammam
Hammamet - elegant grilles	Hammamet's lovely little Medina	Hammamet - artist in front of his gallery	Hammamet - pottery display outside of Medina
Hammamet - beach structure	Hammamet - Yes, the water really is that gorgeous turquoise color!	Hammamet seafront view	Hammamet beach
Hammamet - we visit a narghille (water pipe) cafe	Hammamet narghille cafe	Some of us try the narghille...	Sousse - visit to lovely home to learn about a marriage between European woman & Tunisian man. Here's the woman & her mom
El Djem - 3rd Century Roman amphitheatre	El Djem - Roman amphitheatre, Tunisia's best-preserved ruin	El Djem - Roman amphitheatre	El Djem - Roman amphitheatre - detail
El Djem - Roman amphitheatre - interior (sepia)	El Djem - Roman amphitheatre - interior	El Djem - Roman amphitheatre - interior (sepia)	El Djem - Roman amphitheatre - underground arches (sepia)
El Djem - Roman amphitheatre - underground cells for prisoners and/or lions	El Djem - Roman amphitheatre - long view of interior (sepia)	El Djem - Roman amphitheatre - exterior	El Djem - juxtaposition of old & new
El Djem - Quick food & drinks	El Djem - entrance to museum	El Djem - museum courtyard	El Djem - museum - peacock mosaic
El Djem - museum - hall with mosaics	El Djem - museum - mosaic featuring Bacchus	El Djem - museum - detail, Bacchus	El Djem - museum - hunting scene mosaic
El Djem - museum - dolphins & geese mosaic	El Djem - museum - detail, dolphins & geese	El Djem - museum - sculpture in courtyard	El Djem - very well preserved Roman villa (sepia)
El Djem - Roman villa restored mosaic floor	El Djem - Roman villa - bedroom with Venus mosaic motif on floor	Sousse - monument to the 1943 bombing - Place des Martyrs	Sousse Medina
Young shopper in Sousse Medina	Sousse Medina - walls shared with Great Mosque	Sousse Medina - walls shared with Great Mosque	Kairouan - 1 of 2 Aghlabid basins (cisterns, c. 860 AD)
Kairouan - visit to local mosque - entrance wall	Kairouan - local mosque courtyard	Kairouan - mosque doorway	Kairouan - mosque entrance
Kairouan - mosque courtyard vignette	Kairouan - small mosque interior - anti-chamber carved details	Kairouan - small mosque hallway to courtyard (sepia)	Kairouan - small mosque hallway - details
Kairouan - small mosque hallway	Kairouan - small mosque hallway - details	Kairouan - small mosque courtyard, entrance to mosque	Kairouan - small mosque courtyard - local color
Kairouan - small mosque courtyard - rugs made by brides	Kairouan - street & walls surrounding the Great Mosque	Kairouan - Great Mosque, c. 9th Century - courtyard	Kairouan - Great Mosque courtyard with minaret
Kairouan - Great Mosque colonnade (sepia)	Kairouan - Great Mosque - small doorway into minaret	Kairouan - Great Mosque - minaret	Kairouan - Great Mosque - entrance doorway
Kairouan - Great Mosque - interior	Kairouan - Great Mosque - the cloister's elegant arcades (sepia)	Kairouan - Great Mosque - we have a discussion about Islam with a (retired) Imam	Kairouan - ceiling of multimedia show building
Kairouan - beautiful building	Kairouan - elegant bath, 4-star La Kasbah (Golden Yasmin) Hotel	Kairouan - my gorgeous bedroom at La Kasbah Hotel	Kairouan - my gorgeous bedroom at La Kasbah Hotel
Kairouan - even a little sitting porch off my room - La Kasbah Hotel	Kairouan - La Kasbah Hotel lobby	Kairouan - La Kasbah Hotel, bar off lobby	Kairouan - La Kasbah Hotel lobby
Kairouan - THE place to buy carpets - Tapis Aghlabites shop	Kairouan - Tapis Aghlabites shop	Kairouan - Tapis Aghlabites shop - ceiling detail	Kairouan - Tapis Aghlabites shop - MY purchases!
Kairouan - Tapis Aghlabites shop, exterior	Kairouan - pretty shop	Kairouan - Medina entrance	Sign to Sbeitla, southernmost Roman town in Tunisia
Sbeitla - entrance arch	Sbeitla - walkway to ruins	Sbeitla - long view of temples	Sbeitla - stonework
Sbeitla - Roman olive press	Sbeitla - what the olive press looked like	Sbeitla - panorama of ruins	Sbeitla - small villas
Sbeitla - cistern	Sbeitla - temples dedicated to Juno, Jupiter & Minerva	Sbeitla - entrance arch to Forum & temple area	Sbeitla - sepia shot of dramatic entrance arch to temples & Forum
Sbeitla - view of temples through Forum entrance arch	Sbeitla - the three temples: to Jupiter, Juno & Minerva	Sbeitla - sepia shot of back of Forum entrance arch	Sbeitla - temple to Minerva
Sbeitla - Forum with mosaic floor - one of the best-preserved in No. Africa	Sbeitla - baths area, with hole showing underground heating system	Sbeitla - walkway to amphitheatre	Sbeitla - amphitheatre
Sbeitla - amphitheatre columns - note rugged setting	Our Sbeitla guide's cute little girl	Seen leaving Sbeitla... carrots & leeks (or onions) on the way to market	Kasserine Pass memorial - site of WWII battle
Kasserine Pass	Camels!!! NOW we're in the desert!	Tozeur - an oasis town in SW Tunisia - horse & buggy ride upon our arrival	Tozeur - horse & buggy drivers
Nice shady avenue in Tozeur	Tozeur date plantation	Tozeur date plantation	Tozeur date plantation - man selling dates
Tozeur date plantation - how they fertilize dates - by hand	Tozeur date plantation - workers climb date palms 3 times per year	Tozeur date plantation - workers climb barefoot	Tozeur buggy ride - Barb swaddled in scarf
Backstreets of Tozeur - just about the only street trash we saw in ALL of Tunisia	Our drivers wait while we visit the Tozeur brick works	Tozeur brick works	Tozeur brick works - kiln firing in background
Tozeur brick works - first you mix the mud by hand	Tozeur brick works - form for bricks	Tozeur brick works - pack the mud into the form	Tozeur brick works - stack hardened bricks like so, and when you have enough, you put them in the kiln and fire it for days
Tozeur - our greeter at another gorgeous Golden Yasmin hotel	Tozeur - the beautiful Ras El Ain Hotel	Tozeur - the beautiful Ras El Ain Hotel pool	You know you're in the desert when...
Near Tozeur - desert scenery	Near Tozeur - desert scenery	Metlaoui train station	We ride the vintage French "Lezard Rouge" train
Metlaoui - boxcars carrying raw phosphate to be processed for export in Sfax	The town of Metlaoui, as seen from the Red Lizard	Seen from the Red Lizard train	Seen from the Red Lizard train
Seen from the Red Lizard train	Dramatic scenery - Red Lizard train excursion	Entering the Seldja Gorge, Red Lizard train excursion	Selja Gorge
Selja Gorge	Wildflowers everywhere - Selja Gorge	Selja Gorge	More wildflowers, Selja Gorge
Selja Gorge wildflowers	Selja Gorge	Selja Gorge - Red Lizard train excursion	Phosphate mining works, Red Lizard train excursion
Superb scenery, Red Lizard train excursion	Red Lizard train excursion scene	Tozeur - home-hosted dinner at home of date plantation owner	Home of date plantation owner
Beautiful home of date plantation owner	Beautiful home of date plantation owner	Plantation owner & son	Nefta - La Corbeille, water works for date plantation
We visit a Berber camp in the desert - mother & daughter (with fox kit)	At the desert Berber camp	Louise with two young Berber women	Star Wars set, in the desert at Lariguett
Star Wars set	Star Wars set (sepia)	Star Wars set	Star Wars set
Star Wars set	Star Wars set	Star Wars set	Star Wars set (sepia)
Desert camels	Desert scenery	Mountain oasis of Chebika	Mountain oasis of Chebika - ruins of old village
Mountain oasis of Chebika - crumbled stairway to old village	Mountain oasis of Chebika - scenes from "The English Patient" were filmed here	Mountain oasis of Chebika - waterfall	Mountain oasis of Chebika
Mountain oasis of Tamerza	Our elegant lunch restaurant, Tamerza	Abandoned Berber village, old Tamerza	Abandoned Berber village, old Tamerza
At Mides, another mountain oasis, a stone's throw from the Algerian border, Judith & Louise go native	Dramatic gorge at Mides	Rugged borderland with Algeria	Chott el-Gharsa, a salt lake, near Tozeur
At Judith's birthday celebration in a Tozeur restaurant, Ben displays camel meat in his traditional couscous dish	A walk through Tozeur's old Medina	A walk through Tozeur's old Medina - carpets	A walk through Tozeur's old Medina - pottery
A walk through Tozeur's old Medina - interesting doorway	A walk through Tozeur's old Medina - ornate brickwork the town is famous for	A walk through Tozeur's old Medina - a great shop!	More beautiful Tozeur brickwork in the old Medina
Typical Tozeur doorway	Chott el-Jerid, between Tozeur & Douz	Chott el-Jerid, a large salt lake in the desert	Cooling tower for the very hot water coming from the deep well in Souk-Lahad
At a pit-stop cafe in Souk-Lahad/Kibili, Brenda dances with the cute proprietor	Oasis of Douz - the camel is its symbol	Douz market day	Douz market day - a town at the edge of the Sahara
Douz market day	Douz market day	Douz market day	Our beautiful Golden Yasmin hotel in Douz, the Sun Palm
Lobby of the Sun Palm Hotel	Wall mural, Sun Palm Hotel	Barbara goes native at the Sun Palm	Bedouin wedding traditions - youngest member of the family
Grandmother & OAT group, Bedouin wedding demo	Judith "volunteers" to be a Bedouin bride	George & Judith in Bedouin wedding finery	Another cute daughter of the Bedouin household
Judith with Bedouin women	Our waiting camels for the ride in the Sahara	Denizon of the desert... isn't he cute?	And, we're off! A truly grueling hour's ride
Is that a 2-headed camel? Liz, back in the saddle again!	View of old village, enroute to Matmata	View of old village, enroute to Matmata	We visit a family's underground dwelling, near Matmata
Entrance to underground dwelling, Matmata	Ali demonstrates well operation in courtyard	Main entrance to underground home	Long tunnel into interior dug-out rooms off interior courtyard
Dug-out interior courtyard	Woman grinding grain	Birds have a noisy home here, too	Lady of the house in local costume
Undergroud kitchen	Sitting room or bedroom	Bedroom	Another bedroom
Exit - note how thick the walls are to keep year-round temperature moderated	Ravine (often a river) next to underground home	Matmata - Underground hotel, used as film set for Star Wars	Underground hotel bar
On the island of Djerba, we visit a very old Synagogue complex	Djerba - the La Ghriba Synagogue complex entrance	Street in La Ghriba Synagogue complex	Inside La Ghriba Synagogue
La Ghriba Synagogue interior	La Ghriba Synagogue interior - ceiling detail	La Ghriba Synagogue interior - glass case holding covenant	La Ghriba Synagogue interior
La Ghriba Synagogue cloister	La Ghriba Synagogue cloister	Island of Djerba - Guellala - two popular modes of transportation & pottery	Djerba - View of town of Guellala
Djerba, Guellala - visit to pottery shop	Guellala pottery	Guellala pottery	Guellala pottery
Guellala pottery	Guellala pottery	Guellala pottery	Guellala pottery - so much to love, so little luggage space!
Guellala street scene	Djerba - we visit an olive press - olives awaiting processing	Djerba - olive press	Djerba olive press truck
Cafe in Houmt Souk, Djerba	Rug merchants, Houmt Souk, Djerba	Djerba - we go for a great cruise on a galleon	Wild & crazy crew on the galleon cruise
Crew antics, galleon cruise from Djerba	Galleon crew demonstrates net fishing	Ben, our fabulous bus driver for whole trip, plays the drums	Lunch is ready! And, it was fabulous! Fresh fish grilled on board, couscous, etc.
After lunch, music & dancing aboard the galleon	Returning to Djerba port after galleon cruise	Djerba - old fort	Djerba - flamingos off-shore

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Lindsay		06-Dec-2010 21:10
beautiful pictures thanks for sharing!

blu		14-May-2010 22:59
Such a wunderful gallery - excellent work throughout the whole gallery. Tunisia is a treat for the eyes - have a look at my Tunisia shots if you like:http://www.pbase.com/uese/tunisia

Guest		30-Apr-2010 03:38
Great stuff.

Guest		27-Apr-2010 15:47
IM THE CARPET SALESMAN IN KAIROUA N AND I LIKE YOUR PICTURES THANX JERIR

Guest		22-Mar-2009 23:58
Another fabulous trip brought to you by our intrepid traveler, and eyes on the world - LIZ ELLIOTT! Sandy

Guest		13-Mar-2009 20:47
Thanks, Liz, I think your commentary is great! Judith

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