Louage: (n) a six or eight person taxi; a ubiquitous form of transportation in Tunisia. Also, Stacey's place of residence during most of her sejour. Since Tozeur, I have continued my whirlwind trip of the south. I've driven across the Chott el Jerid, a dried up salt lake... where Luke contemplated the two moons on his home planet in "A New Hope." Yup, I'm still geeking out. I've sprinted through Saharan sand dunes. Myself and 6 other people spent a night under the stars in the desert, riding out on camelback and having a lovely after lunch-snack of sand on the [View Full Entry]

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the Crazy Writings of: Snow White Did you miss me? I know I did! We have just gotten back from a week of travel around this fabulous land, and I'm just regaining the ability to speak. Since we missed two weeks here, I have to backtrack. (Bess Davis, another student on the trip, has a blog on www.BessinTunisia.blogspot.com... check it out!) JAN 14th: Exploration of Tunis We ran amok around the capital Tunis aujourd'hui, and it was fantastic. The medina, or Old City, is in the center of town and surrounded by an ancient stone wall. It,s full of crazy twisty [View Full Entry]

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Travelling: Johanna, Reetta and me. Route: Nancy-Paris Est, Paris CDG-Monastir, Monastir-Sousse. A semi-serious idea made with friends on New Year's Eve became reality, and so I found myself once again from CDG looking forward to a warm African sun. My friends were supposed to join me from Finland after one and half days in Sousse. Before landing to Monastir, the weather got suddenly really bad. The massive dark clouds seemed never to end, but I really couldn't expect that kind of strong wind and rain I faced when got myself out from the plane. Anyw [View Full Entry]

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Después de un viaje por Túnez. (Versión en español). Después de un viaje por Túnez, querría compartir las sensaciones experimentadas, algunas fotografías, y sacar algunas conclusiones. Por supuesto, también es una buena ocasión para dejar en el aire algunas ideas que podrían ser aprovechables por quienes tuviesen previsiones de un viaje por aquellos lugares. Seguramente sea un poco fuera de lo común el que me llamase la atención el hecho de tantos vestigios encontrados de civilizaciones que en su momento fueron localizadas en la mente en lugares distantes de aquellos, sobr [View Full Entry]

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