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| PromoTunisia Exploration & Leisure |
| To the southeast, via Kebili, lies Douz, on the “Grand Erg Oriental”, the great sand-sea of the eastern Sahara. Its Thursday camel market is a camera-worthy event, as is the marhoul ceremony celebrating the start of the seasonal desert migration. Such rituals – as well as camel-wrestling, poetry ‘jousts’ and folk dance and music – are incorporated into a Sahara Festival which takes place near Douz every January. Around this region live veiled people of pure Berber stock. You may also find a ‘desert rose’ of crystalline minerals baked by the sun into petal-like formations. |
| Matmata and Tataouine, locations used during the filming of ‘Star Wars’, consist (as do other Berber villages) largely of sizable holes burrowed into the ground, a useful defense against the fierce summer heat and cold winter winds. |
| For walking enthusiasts and lovers of open spaces and exploring, Tunisia has a corner of the Great Eastern Erg of the Sahara desert that offers vast spaces for exploring and the emotion of tasting the nomad life. |
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| Their homes are built on two levels, the upper one containing storage rooms. In some cases, several of these underground dwellings have been connected together to make hotels and restaurants. Two of the most beautiful mountain ksars are Ouled Soltane, south of Tataouine, and Chenini, to the west. The road to Chenini is a memorable one, zigzagging through a cinnamon-coloured mountainscape. |
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| PromoTunisia specializes in guided holidays around cultural themes such as music, festivals, cuisine, arts & traditions to provide our travelers with a Tunisian people experience. |
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