Tusnoozia
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007Tunisia… what a bore. Some of it has to do with just leaving exciting Morocco and some of it is due to Ramadan. Tunisia seems fairly well-to-do with many beautiful, well-kept homes and neighborhoods. I have never seen so many empty and quiet streets including those in the capital, Tunis. Carthage is borderline bore although the history is so great that one cannot help but get caught up in imagining how it used to be. Most of Carthage as built by the pre-Roman Punics and Carthaginians was destroyed or overbuilt by the Romans. After the Romans, parts of Carthage were carted off to be used in homes, mosques and other buildings until most of it was no longer there. I imagined the caravans of marble columns moving out of Carthage to these other destinations. Greatest fire sale ever?