[ Dec.2008 ] This strange building is called Ksar, which was sometimes used as a fortress by Berber people. Each room is called Ghorfa and it is a storeroom for grain. We saw this in…

[ Dec.2008 ] In that morning the view from the car was simply flat but after a while, without notice, we were in a mountainous area in Tunisia. Suddenly this village called Toujane came in…

[ Dec.2008 ] In the place called Matmata in Tunisia, there are unusual houses. After digging a big vertical hole in the dry ground, they dig smaller horizontal holes and live there. We visited one…

[ Dec.2008 ] I continue my Tunisian holiday. This photo was taken at Tamezret, where we had a rest after a long drive from Douz in the south. We did not walk in the town,…

[ Dec.2008 ] We stayed in a town in the south called Douz on the second night during the tour in Tunisia. This place is called “Entrance to the desert” and I felt intense atmosphere…

[ Dec.2008 ] After enjoying shopping in Tozeur, south of Tunisia, we moved to Douz, a town even more south. On the way, we stopped at a vast salt lake called Chotto el Jerid. They…

[ Dec.2008 ] As soon as we entered the medina in Tozeur, a city south of Tunisia, we got hooed by a man, probably French who looked quite different from the local people. He took…

[ Dec.2008 ] The south part of Tunisia is within the Sahara Desert. We experienced it at the area called Ong El Jemel. First, Sala, the driver went up and down the hillocks so that…

[ Dec.2008 ] The first night of our tour in Tunisia, we stayed in Tozeur, a oasis city in the south of the country. As soon as we arrived at the hotel, we asked the…