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Tunisian sweets made of dried dates. Sweet stuff but at least this was something new in the past 3 days!
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| After lunch, we finally had the energy to wander round this famous troglodyte house. There are rooms on the ground floor and the first floor.
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| You could see the whole place was a circular pit with rooms dug out from the limestone on the sides. People could easily come down from above.
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| This is the Lars Dining Room - check out the fresco in the ceiling, it was restored in 1995 to the same way as it appeared in the movie.
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Stairs leading down to Aunt Beru's Kitchen, though in the movie the actual kitchen was shot in England. This was just an empty room
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| The bar of the hotel, here they had a TV (on the left) that repeatedly played the Star Wars movie, so it was a good place to catch-up if you have never watched it before. (But then, why are you here in the first place?)
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| Since it is called Sidi Driss hotel it was actually a hotel where fans (who else?) could stay to worship the force
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| The toilet was not too bad, (compared to yesterday's) you could take a shower inside an authentic cave if you stayed overnight
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More ancient Star Wars material found around the reception.
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| After Sidi Driss, we went to a more proper underground troglodyte house. This was their front entrance
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| This was what the courtyard looked like from above. Again, there was no roof for the whole house. People started digging the large courtyard and the surrounding rooms from the soft limestone
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| This suggested these Berbers were Christian? (who else would put a fish in front of their door? They didn't even live near the sea!)
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