El Kef and Dougga, Tunisia

Tuesday 15th we headed out to the roman site of Dougga. Very impressive roman ruins, complete with theatre, Masoleum (which the British stole part of for the British Museum and the French re-built early last century - bottom, right of picture) and the Capitol building (top left( which were all very striking as we approached the site.


We were the only two cars parked on the south side of the site and there was only one group of French archaeology group walking around the site. There were several arched entrances to the site, numerous temples, bathhouses, cisterns, roman roads (curved around the hilltop, not straight( and a brothel. This was set high on a hill with a view over neighbouring farmland. Some local kids were wandering around the site collecting olives from the trees. We tried some earlier but they were really bitter, but maybe these ones were not quite ripe.

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On the way back to El Kef, we stopped off at a town for our first small shop of bread, tins and fruit before heading back to El Kef to relax in the hotel for the rest of the afternoon. The Hotel beer was a bit too cold – frozen actually and I couldn’t drink it as fast as the icy beer was rising out the top. Now off to find El Kef’s internet café, wander round the city walls and Kasbah and find a restaurant for a meal – just one!
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