Matmata

Its been a while now since I visited Matmata, but the unique cave dwellings made it a place that I will remember forever. Three hundred miles south of Sousse, where we were staying made it one hell of a long day trip (about 18 hours) but it was well worth the hassel. Its worth noting that this was a Christmas holiday, thankfully, but in summer I think the heat would have been unbearable. We called at the 3 rd largest colloseum (at El Djem if I remember right) then at a large town called Sfax, that had the most unfortunate smell of sewerage, and we couldn't wait to leave. On to Gabes on the coast for a meal break and finally to Matmata. We did call in at an oasis on ...

Where? That was my reaction to being told I would be visiting Matmata. I was then told it's a town of Troglodyte houses, I still wasn't convinved for some reason I was imagining small troll like people living in caves. But then I was told it's where Star Wars was filmed, "oh" I said now rather curious and trying to remember back, (I haven't seen the new version and it's a long time since I saw the old one.) I seemed to remember strange little people living in holes dug into the hills side, and decided it would actually be a rather cool place to visit. (In fact "The life of Brian was also filmed in Tunisia but in Monastir, and also ...