Tunisia, December 2010 - Chebika

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Chebika

We had to drive 30 minutes or so into the Saharan desert to get to Chebika.

What we found was that a stream of this size....

...feeds an Oasis this large!

A tribe owns the whole oasis and divides it among its people. And this, I assume is their mascot or some sort of identity symbol. Though I could be completely wrong.

There is evidence of some massive tectonic activity in this region, which could well have thrown up...

Lots of fossils, quartz, and curious looking crystals (such as the desert rose) that the villagers collect, and they make a living off of selling them to tourists like us.

From Chebika, we wanted to make it to another oasis, Medis, but it was getting pretty late.

But we did manage to get some breathtaking views in our futile attempt to get to Medis before sundown.

It was getting pretty late, but higher up in the mountains, the sun sets later than down there.

We almost made it there, but not quite. We were just a couple of miles away. This road leads straight to Algeria, and Medis was just before the international border. But then, we ran out of time.

After an unsucessful drive to Medis, we headed out to the dunes and the nerd in me could not miss out on what was coming next.

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