Tunisia: Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes (Part 1)

SIGHTS:

· white-washed/tan adobe houses with blue doors and windows

· burnt reds, oranges and yellows of hanging cashmere carpets

· deep blues and greens of the Mediterranean Sea

· silver, gold and bronze jewellry
· veiled women, cloaked men, Tuareg turbans, and topless tourists lying by the pool
· baby blue eyes and dark, wrinkled skin

· exotic, colorful, detailed tiles

· plump dates hanging heavy from palm trees

· chaffon, silk and sequence flying with every jiggle of the belly dancers



· the contrast of dry desert sand and mountainous rough terrain with green and blue oasis

· arabic



· houses dug into mountains

· Roman ruins

· Carthaginian ruins

· miles and miles of nothingness

· and of course...camels