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Stork flying

Storks from Central and Eastern Europe migrate mainly towards Turkey, across the Bosphore strait. With its huge wings, it is able to fly on long distances, but though it would be able to fly across the Mediterranean, it prefers to migrate across straits in order to feed more easily on the way.

Stork nesting on an eucalyptus

Storks from Western Europe migrates either through the Gibraltar strait to Morocco and western Algeria or through Sicilia to Tunisia and Eastern Algeria. In Northern Tunisia, they find plenty to feed in all the wet low lands and many do not migrate anymore and nest, most of the time in eucalyptus trees, living or dead.

Storks feeding

Stork (Ciconia ciconia) is a large bird (1 meter) that use to live in Summer in Europe and migrate to warmer climates in Winter. In France, they nest mainly in Alsace where they are supposed to bring babies ! At least that is the story told to children !

The Roman "limes" again

This wall is the Roman "limes", the wall that limited the Roman Empire on the south and that ran for hundreds of kilometers on top of the mountains. It is very impressive. However, on the spot, nothing tells what it is. No guide gives any information about it.
About 50 m have been destroyed when the road was built, a few years ago. It was even more impressive when I first saw it, when there was only a dust road (sand and stones !) and that only 3 or 4 meters were lacking for the dust road !
Anyway, if you go from Gabès to Tamerza, it is worth the 10 km detour.

the Roman "limes"

On the road from Gabès to Gafsa, after about 100 km of semi-desert landscape, you reach a crossroad. To get to Gafsa and Tamerza, you continue straight forward. On the left is a road that leads to Kebili, across the "Chott el Fedjadj". If you follow this road for 10 km, you reach a kind of path on the mountain. Across this path is a wall that goes from one summit to the other.