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Off The Beaten Path: the Roman "limes"
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  • Updated by JLBG on Nov 13, 2004
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    • Tunisia - The Roman limes
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    • 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.

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    Off The Beaten Path: The Roman "limes" again
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    • Tunisia - Inside the limes, on the (un)covered way
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    • 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.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Storks feeding
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    • 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 !

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    Off The Beaten Path: Stork nesting on an eucalyptus
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    • 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.

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    Off The Beaten Path: Stork flying
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    • 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.

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    Pawtuxet Sat Jun 27, 2009 14:34 UTC
     Just checking on a destination a friend has been enjoying. Thanks for the tips.    		Elisabcn Sat Nov 29, 2008 07:21 UTC
     Hopefully next week i will visit the roman limes! Your tips will be very useful to us ;-) Thanks for sharing, elisa
    volopolo Wed Mar 5, 2008 19:56 UTC
     Another great country in North Africa. I like to vist some day. volopolo    		JLBG Sat Oct 27, 2007 05:00 UTC
     Sorry via12345, I have not written that Deglet were Tunisian but "they are grown only in the oasis of Southern Tunisia and of South-eastern Algeria"
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