Tunisia, December 2010 - Sidi Bou Said

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Sidi Bou Said

Sidi Bou Said is a beautiful (rich) neighborhood not far from Tunis. The blue and white colors look a lot like the villages in Greece.

This point marks the beginning of Sidi Bou Said, and curiously, everything up through this point was relatively dusty and the eat outs where cheap. A few paces to the other side of the street and the entire picture changes.

All the houses that I saw there maintained the same color scheme and style.

The similarity of the houses is down to the window grills and the lintel over the windows too.

The clean streets and relatively expensive cars betrayed the wealth of the residents here.

All the streets were really just cobble-stoned pathways. It looked like a quiet village while I was there. Nevertheless beautiful.

It is hard to believe that sleepy pathways much like this witnessed a massive uprising against the dictatorship.


And for all you cat lovers out here, Sidi Bou Said, and Tunis, in general, is so cat friendly. I saw dozens of them walking about tame and unafraid.

Of course, no visit to Tunisia is complete without a visit to the famous Roman baths. So that's where we head next.

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