Tunisia Day 3

Woke up once again at the healthy holiday time of 6:30am, to try and change and wash up and lock up and find breakfast place which opens at 7 to catch bus at 7:15. The ang mors are probably wondering who this crazy singaporeans are who rush in, sit, stuff themselves with food, da-bao more food, and scoot.

Sunrise however is damn gorgeous. photos once again can't really do it justice, but:



Note presence of date palms and fir trees. This part of Tunisia gets Mediterranean kind of climate.

Aside: I've now heard the Crazy frog remix of the Axel Foley theme about 5 times, and dragostea din tei once. Weird.

Saw mosque. Oldest one in Tunisia and probably Africa too, since the Arabs brought islam into Africa and set up mosque in this city first.

Interesting people 4:
More kids who pose happily for a camera when asked.



Check it out! he's wearing a teenage mutant ninja turtles shirt!


Saw mausoleum (sic). Lots of lovely arches. They look all archy only they bend back on themselves so they look a bit more like an omega than a letter n. And ceremonial procession with ululating happy family surrounding a boy all decked out in all finery whom tour guide said was probably about to get circumsized. He didn't look too happy about it.



Also saw wedding bride decked out all in white and with hennas on her hands and things doing pre-wedding holy absolutions. She didn't look too happy about it either.

Also seen: Salt farms. One bloody humongous mountain of salt. like, think salted vegetables and salted eggs and salted fish and salted salt. As tall as a house mountain of salt. That'd be one interesting katamari ingredient.



At this point if some of you are wondering what Tunisian cities look like in general, come look for me and i'll give you a slideshow. It's a general feeling which seeing a few pictures in isolation will probably misrepresent. Much pity that i had such problems adjusting the spot meter for the light, the sun was really damn bloody intense. Went somewhere today where the temperature was 36 degrees celcius, and it felt like standing on top of a hot black asphalt road in the middle of the day, except the temperature is achieved without the road (felt the ground and it was cool).