ايرن في تونس: نمشت إلى الصحراء

So hate to backtrack... but I felt I should fill in some blanks about my desert/south excursion.

First we went south to Kairouane

[the 4th holiest city in islam---here's the main mosque we visited]

Next we went to go see a camel that pumps water from a well that is completely safe to drink--and yes I actually drank it and it didnt taste any different than other Tunisian tap water [which is 100% not up to american standards--but not tooo terrible]

Next we visited some roman ruins... heres a part of a village and such

and here are some Byzantine ruins as Sbeitla [they were HUGE]

And then that night was off to Tozer to stay in a beautiful hotel

and that was day one... the rest is a bit more condensed.

next was camel time...

then the next day we continued our trip south and went to a berber village, and went inside someones house.. [i felt awful invading, but the family offered to let us visit]

here's how they make their bread [still]

and here is all [well a good number of us] with the 'owner' of the house

next we went to visit more berber shops--i was dressed in traditional berber wedding garb... it felt like it was a thousand degrees while i was in it..