particular period for me, and I took the opportunity to fly over the Mediterranean to discover new flavors and new peoples. The goal was Tozeur, a city of about fifty thousand inhabitants in the south of Tunisia . The fortunes of this trip was to be accompanied by a Tunisian by birth but cosmopolitan by choice that was able to guide us with wisdom and discretion in the Arab world.
Our contact at all, Rene Tozeur is an oasis in the barren landscape inland of Tunisia, its characteristics are the dates, the houses decorated with exposed brick walls and nearby salt lakes.
Upon our arrival we took a ride in a city park and drank the traditional mint tea combined with a fresh water pipe (SISA), I immediately hit the lush bougainvillea and jasmine plants with their colorful flowers decorated the palm grove.
The sweet mint tea 
A plant Bougainvillea During our stay of 5 days, we were able to visit the few points in which water flows and that allowed permanent human settlements, including the source of mountain Chebika , the oasis of Tamerza , canyon Mides and other villages nearly destroyed by floods and earthquakes.
The mountain oasis of Chebika 
Canyon Mides with the city in ruins on top of the spur 
City abandoned Mires 
Our driver happy to be part of the Mission Bigusto! Water is the problem of Africa and Zaafrane I saw a mining system truly worthy of note, a cool building that the precious liquid that flows out of 3 km of prodondità at a temperature of 60 ° C , mighty!
Other goals were achieved the salt lakes Chott el-Gharsa and Chott el-Jerid . Dire
salt lakes is an understatement, because it happens rarely that are covered with water and the maximum that our guide had seen was 50 inches deep, but the landscape is charming, white and blue in above the ground is "crunchy" and seems to walk on the biscuits. White was stranded in the wilderness years ago a bus that salt and time have not pardoned.
the salty sea Chott el-Jerid 
Bus eroded is also a tourist, but sometimes we must make do, the horse-drawn carriage ride to see at a slow pace, the life of the natives. We discovered the palm grove and the system of agriculture that is carried by the Roman domination, that is from the top: date palms, fruit trees (peaches, citrus, pomegranates, figs and grapes) and vegetables. While the herd is kept in pens or grazed in the underbrush that lies outside the oasis in the vast plains.
Typical architecture of Tozeur with clay bricks, with their geometric designs that represent the professions of the owners or uses. 
Museum of Tozeur 
tiles decorated with geometric motifs The markets were all similar, because the tourism brought a request to forcibly typical products (bowls, rugs and hookah), but in hidden alleys you see sellers of bread with the cart, butchers displaying the heads of animals killed, cooks sardines grilled on the side of the sellers of these and other features that we have lost to Western consumers to follow the way of aesthetics hypocrite.
dishes and decorated to the market of Douz 
Paninaro traveling to Tozeur 
A slaughterhouse in Tozeur Incredible! As long as you're not there you do not realize it.
Fine sand, so intangible that seems to liquid, in fact, the stretch of dunes that constantly moves is called Erg, that sea of \u200b\u200bsand, at some point you sink to the knee and the other dune is compact and cold. The only point of reference is the sun and is the only thing that you should not watch.
And silence, all sounds are muffled dall'increspatura sand.
Knowing that I could return at any moment, I calmed and I understand why all the great conquerors withdrew in the face of so much "nothing".
The endless Tunisian Erg 
Sunset over the desert 
The cover-up off-road for example, a trio of finely cut vegetables as entrees, some cooked ( Chakchouka resulting from French ratatouille), and others served cold and flavored with mint and lime. Or Brik , cylinders fried, stuffed with eggs, or tuna and vegetables, not forgetting the Couscous by different seasonings, but cooked in Gargoulette typical terracotta jar. But the dates were
standard part, which best represent the country. Sweet!
Brik 
Chakchouka 
Couscous real 
Chicken Skewers and lamb 
Taste Desert Mission, accomplished!
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Abdelmoula Neji
