The North

Roman Marble Quarry

Our trip to the north of Tunisia was pretty fun. There are a lot of Roman ruins in Tunisia. A lot. I think I saw more Roman ruins in the past week than I saw when I was in Italy. There are also lots of amazing mosaics which are in really good condition.
Mausoleum in Haidra

What's great (or maybe bad) about archaeological sites in Tunisia is that you are basically free to wander and climb around on the ruins. Many mosaics, like the one below, look like they belong in a museum or below a glass cover.

Instead, you can walk on top of them, and even steal pieces. (which I of course did not do, or at least not from the ones still in good condition)

Speaking of Romans, the picture below is of Jugurtha's table.

Its a mountain that looks like it had the top of it cut off. There's a pretty breathtaking view from the top, and also more ruins including some cool underground caverns. Yay. This is the site where Jugurtha, a Berber leader, had his stronghold to defend against the invading Romans. Seems kinda familiar, no?


This is Mechoui, which is grilled lamb on the side of the highway. Its served with a bit of salt and lemon. It costs around 11 dinar for a kilo of meat, and is delicious. kinda wish we had this instead of McDonalds back in the US.
Bay In Tabarka


Tefillin from Synagogue in Le Kef, which no longer has a Jewish community, but the state renovated the building and keeps it pretty good condition.


On another note, due to the lack of copyright laws in Tunisia, or maybe the lack of enforcement, I think it is almost impossible to buy a CD or DVD in this country which is not pirated. I found this great place where you can get how ever many movies, tv shows, or songs that can fit on 1 dvd for 1.50. Also, the store has be designed to look like its a gift shop from Jurassic Park and also has leopard skin couches. Unfortunately a lot of the newer movies and shows are dubbed in French, since no one actually uses Arabic in this country (many restaurants do not even have menus available in Arabic). Because of this I've started watching American movies in French, but only really bad ones where it doesn't matter that I miss half the dialog.