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The sun finally came out at around 620am. The first and only sunrise we saw in Tunisia
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| After watching the sunrise we left Ksar Ghilane for Chenini. Not long after the tyre went flat for the other jeep
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| Even the tyre of the 4WD cannot survive from the road conditions after 3 days drive...
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| Our driver was changing tyre for the other jeep... luckily that didn't happen while we were lost on the first night
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It seems these people had found a good way to entertain themselves while this happened - playing lawn bowling with stones
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| Finally we arrived to the mountain area
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| Somehow we had to do the hiking up. The destination was the white tower on the photo's top left.
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| We saw some sheep on the way up. Seems after all it wasn't as deserted as I thought..
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Finally we saw this signpost... another 100m to Chenini!
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| We believed we have reached our destination when we saw this beautiful white mosque. Nearby was a cafe where we chilled out with a cup of coffee (or in our case a bottle of coke)
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| Chenini, the best known of the mountain villages, was built between two hilltop ridges.
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| The oldest structures dated back to 12th century and was originally a fortified granary (see the holes?) built on a hilltop to store grain for the villagers living in the valley below.
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