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Lovely! I wish I was there and could get into those boxes to find these things and also the scented beads!
Nice edith, you are really enticing me to hop on a plane to tunis for a couple of days.
Would love to go sightseeing and shopping in the medina.
Would you say that price, quality and abundance wise, tunis is better than say djerba for 3- 4days?
I would also love to go to the bardo and carthago.
Thanx for your sweet day to day embedded-in-the-medina jewelry hunting.
Well, I have not spent nearly enough time in the Souk Hamout (Djerba) to draw an accurate comparison (last time I was there I had small children with me....not ideal for jewelry hunting). The few things I did see in Djerba seemed to be of very nice quality, and I found things there I have not seen in Tunis. But the Souk Hamout did strike me as smaller than the Tunis Medina, so I am guessing that perhaps the selection may be smaller. I am hoping to get to Djerba for more hunting in the near future. Djerba still has a small community of active silver smiths, and their work is definitely superior to the new work I have seen in Tunis.
The Bardo has recently been renovated. Their mosaics are amazing. Carthage also has amazing sites, but some of them were looted by the Trebelsi family and plowed under for housing developments. The Tunisians are still attempting to assess the damage and figure out what to do about it. Most of the foreign archaeologist left under Bin Ali, the UNESCO sites languished, and we all hope that a big change will now take place for the better.