05-22-2007, 03:55 PM
I'd second all of the above. With an aircon coach it isn't too bad going to El Djem etc (we went from Sousse and our aircon broke down en route though 
) and although Thurbobo is only partially excavated - there appeared to be people 'living' in it and popping out of the ruins to offer 'genuine' artefacts - it is huge and majestic. You'll find yourself walking on scattered tesserae too - the path from the coach park to the site seemed to be made of a mix of them, gravel and pot/tile fragments. Weird.
Oh, for later period stuff old-town Sousse (Medina, Kasbah, walls) and Kairouan are worth a look. There are mosaics in the Kasbah museum at Sousse, including IIRC a cross-eyed Venus.
) and although Thurbobo is only partially excavated - there appeared to be people 'living' in it and popping out of the ruins to offer 'genuine' artefacts - it is huge and majestic. You'll find yourself walking on scattered tesserae too - the path from the coach park to the site seemed to be made of a mix of them, gravel and pot/tile fragments. Weird.Oh, for later period stuff old-town Sousse (Medina, Kasbah, walls) and Kairouan are worth a look. There are mosaics in the Kasbah museum at Sousse, including IIRC a cross-eyed Venus.
a.k.a. Simon Frame
