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Family coming back from the souq

Along the road going from El-Jem to the holly city of Kairouan, 68 kilometers away, families come back from the souq (market). The road is lined with eucalyptus trees and prickly-pears. Two women walk while one is sitting on the donkey that caries the goods they have bought and three kids caper around. This is the kind of scene that you often get.

Fixing a handle

At first, I wondered what this man, sit on an empty sack was busy doing! On the second photo, I have made a close-up (you need anyway to enlarge it) that allows to see that he has a hand saw for fresh wood that he uses to fix a handle on a pickaxe. He has almost finished preparing a handle out of a rough trunk of some strong wood that I have not identified.