Douz Camel Market & Chott El-Jerid

Africa » Tunisia
September 23rd 2004

Published: February 17th 2012

Lucky for us, we were in Douz on thursday, ready to see the weekly market (also called the camel market). Most of the animals we saw were sheeps and goats. We saw indeed some camels, but not so many.

Chott El-Jerid is an immense salt lake covering an area of almost 5000 sq km, a scene of desolation.

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Kurt de Gante

Hello everybody, I'm Kurt, nearly 40 years old and living in Belgium. I always wanted to see the world and explore other countries. Until now I've done a few -rather small- journeys. But to my feeling there are still a lot to places to explore ;-) I'm the kind of traveller that has done a different kind of trips: in group, alone, with some friends, with my wife (and kids), multiple day trekking in the mountains, city-trips, cultural trips, lazy vacations, ... For the moment, my kids are too young to take them far abroad. That's why -in 2011- I decided to write down some of my travel-e... full info

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