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Thursday, Apr 07, 2005

Welease Wodewick

David Murray
2007-02-21 19:05:29

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Arriving at Kairouan, was different. For the first time, we saw tourists. But before we got there, we had a monumental journey in a louage !!!! What should have been easy, turned out to be slightly hard. Basically, from Sbeitla, there is a straight line to Kairouan, but as it was getting late in the afternoon, all louages were going to Sousse, and they would only take us if we paid for the full journey through to Sousse. So, we did.

As we were approaching the town, the driver asked us if we wanted to get out at the Gare or Centre Ville, all said in French, but the way I looked at it, I told him that he should drop us off at our hotel, considering the price we paid. Now, he could not understand English, and my French is very limited, so he kicked us out at one of the gates. We turned around, and there was the hotel that we wanted. Once checked in, we went back in through the walls, to walk around the Medina. It was also pissing with rain, which was a godsend. This kept the locals away as we traipsed around, plus they were attacking all the other tourists who were trying to get onto a coach as we were right near the tourist coach bus station gate thing. The town seemed quite good, and as we were getting quite wet, we grabbed some dinner, went back to the hotel, and died. It had been a heavy last couple of days taking all the ruins in, so it was good to have a break. Next day, we went straight to the Great Mosque. Now to find the Great Mosque, the Lonely Planet states that you need to go through the horseshoe gate. Well fuck me, all the gateways were horseshoe shaped !!!!! So we picked one, and made it in. Now, as far as mosques go, and what you can see, it was pretty cool. So, once the coach loads of tourists had departed, we walked around. It was kind of nice, but the rains were moving in, so we walked out, and proceeded to see the inner walled town, and its surrounding areas. We did see more mosques and some were quite ...