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October 16th 2010
Published: October 16th 2010
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Annie Philip salt Plains
We flew from Algiers back to tunis and arrived in familiar terrain- confused and complicated visa on arrival proceedures-taxi scrums and soon we were back in old Maison Doree Hotel. We met the group we were joining and did some shopping-dinner out-early to bed and in the morning we were off on our Oasis trip-16 of us. The route took us west and south across areas we had not seen on last Tunisian trip. First to Dougga and a wonderful Roman Amphitheatre aqnd baths. These ruins were beautiful set in open fields and well preserved. We continued on to Le Kef where we stayed at the Hotel Sidi Venereum. (Hotel venereal Disease). This place is also interesting-There is a Medina-Kasbah on the hillsside on top of which is a great fort,synagogue and fantastic views of surrounding farms. Onward to Tozeur where we had been previously.We had to find Hotel Karem where we stayed last year. This time we stayed at a campsite which was also good. After a couple of days of chilling out we continued west across al Jeb - the salt plains. This spectacular trek across the salt plains was interupted by a stop to take photos and play
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Star wars Hotel
in the salt. We then went to Matmata and stayed in the Trogl;odyte hotel where our rooms were beneath the ground. This town is one of many places throughout Tunisia where Star Wars was filmed and of course we had to visit the hotel where the action took place. All in all a successful 6 days in Tunisia. We then continued on to the Libyan border and our main destination.


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