We're headed off on April 20th to Algiers, Algeria for a week. Then, we fly to Tunis, Tunisia for 16 days. Highlights include plenty of medinas (markets), museums, Roman towns and ruins, the third largest Roman amphitheater, the legendary home of the lotus eaters in Homer's Odyssey, lots of mosques and troglodytic settlements, the village which served as a shooting location of Episode IV of Star Wars, a private tented camp established and maintained by the tour company in the Sahara desert, camel and horse-drawn carriage rides, a visit to a carpet workshop, and to the fourth holiest Mosque in Islam. We'll have dinner with local families, listen to lectures on women's rights in Tunisia, and stop by North Africa's American Cemetery and Memorial paying tribute to those fallen in World War II, and explore ancient Carthage and the ruins of Virgil's Aeneid. We'll take lots of photos, and be back on May 12th.
