Tunisia, December 2010 - Roman Baths

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The Roman baths were, no doubt, magnificant. But very little of it's super structure remains.

The beautiful pathway to the ruins gives you an inkling of the magnificence that the people of antiquity enjoyed here.

Yet, it can't prepare you to be awestruck when you actually see the ruins. Although the superstructure is completely gone, you can't help but admire the opulence of what once was.

Hard as you may try, photographs simply don't do justice to the feast that your eyes relish here.

The underground/basement floors were seldom seen by the patrons of these baths. All the of the basement was for operations that made the hot water, the heated walls, and the steam, possible.

And that basement was HUGE. Almost as large as the bath complex above the ground.


This is all that remains of the decadent bath complex

The amphitheater didn't fare any better either.

The Roman villas have met the same fate, and curiously, these ruins overlook the president's palace.

But overlooking these ruins, is a magnificent mosque. Obviously. It's an Islamic country afterall!

From Tunis, my visit took me to Tozeur, a desert village in southern Tunisia.

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