Of course the shop will provide you with the souvenirs.. how about some salt from the largest salt lake of North Africa?

...or some dyed desert roses?

... or some bones of wild animals?

After finishing crossing Chott el-Jerid, we came to Fatnasa, the Dunes Sanctuary

This place was only assessible by a 4WD and was not a place frequented by tour groups

The dunes formation formed really interesting landscape. The dunes were more like rocks than sand

We thought we could finally find a cafe with proper toilets but it seems the cafe was already deserted

Next to Fatnasa was a very interesting structure

It pumped up the thermal water from underground and then distributed to the areas nearby

Before we knew what this was our initial thought was to cool ourselves off with this water (after travelling in the desert who wouldn't?) but the water was boiling hot!

We arrived in Douz for lunch. This was more like a tourist agent office than a proper restaurant, and we managed to cause the only toilet to flood and overflow!!

Tunisian local soup, it was quite tasty