Adventures in Tunisia - El Jem Colesseum

Following on from my photo diary yesterday, I wanted to talk about one of the more adventure-y side of things I did in Tunisia. On our ninth day there we took a trip to the inland to visit some of the country's historic and cultural sites. We took a coach down, where at the absolute crack of dawn we were given a brief history lesson on Tunisia's culture, on how it became an independent country, where its main source of income comes from and a general look into its past. I love things like this so I was on the edge of my seat so invested in what this guy was saying, others were less as enthusiastic at 7am and slept through it all.
Our first destination was the El Jem colosseum, which is the colosseum which was used in the film Gladiators, it's quite often the one used for films because it is more... 'put together' than the one in Rome which has eroded a little more over time. The building has so much history behind it, it's so surreal visiting places like this and realising that these things exist, and actually happened, in a completely different timeline from ours.
Here are some beautiful photos I took of this amazing place.










 This bit is actually underground, the colosseum had dungeons underneath which back in the day would have been used to house slaves and poor people before they were thrown in the arena to fight animals and obviously gladiators. The roof of this part of the dungeon had fell in and a piece of metal mesh had been put over it, we could then walk over the top which was a little terrifying.





Shan x

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