Chott el Jerid

Sunburnt and populated only by mirages, this world of the ephemeral aquatic leaves appear on more than 100 kilometers of extended its blinding salt and cracked clay. In ocher and dominate this arid plain lifeless mountains, men have been able to use the smallest sources to create rallying points. These mountain oases, such as Chebika, which sink into grooves parched by the desert wind, you can discover the diamond crystal clear spring gushing from the rock, turning his miraculous run in an explosion of delicious green . Some have succeeded, in ancient times, make rivers, aided by geological and climatic events of the region. 

They have, over the ages, dug impressive canyons and winding as in the gorges of Selja to Midès or Tamerza where water continues to flow in refreshing waterfalls, and whirring noise of each year of the water raging in the rainy season. 

At the end of the straight road that bisects from north to south, the Chott el Jerid, the small town of Douz forms the border with the Tunisian Sahara against which it is trying to fight to avoid being engulfed by shifting dunes. Like Fort Sabria, a former French military town lost in the sands and now a house. A Saafrane, hundreds of camels waiting on the side of the road from the tourists for a few hours to enjoy the joys of a camel ride at sunset. Some of them even try the adventure of a night in the desert under the stars.