Tunisia

Vast salt lake

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…

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Shabby Frenchman

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…

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Sahara Desert

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…

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Sunset over the desert

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…

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Mr. Sala

The man on the left of this photo is Sala. The agency which arranged our tour was an office run by some Japanese people, but the actual driver who took us around…

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Kairouan and Nagareyama

We left Tunis and started our 3 nights tour in Tunisia. Our first visit was Kairouan, an old Islamic capital. It was called the third important city in the Islamic world in…

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Enjoy shopping at souk

In Tunis, after arranging the tour from the next day, we enjoyed shopping in the souk. We know that how hard we tried to beat down, we are still overcharged, but still,…

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Travelling in Tunisia in 2008

Before forgetting everything, I decided to write about the travel in Tunisia in winter in 2008. I flew from London and my friend from Tokyo and we met in a hotel in…

England

Swan Lake, again

I saw Matthew Bourne’s “Swan Lake” at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London. It was a sensation when they showed it for the first time in 1995, because all the swans are danced…