Advantages: historic, atmospheric, cheap Disadvantages: other tourists, taxi-drivers, confusing map
'Here,' our young female private guide said enthusiastically, 'you can see where the temple would have been-'
Having absorbed a hurried account of various Punic wars, I'd stopped listening by then, and was content to gaze down the hill at the modern crouched white villas of today's Carthage stretching down to the sea on one side. On the other, a vista that stretched as far as Tunis sandwiched between its salt lake and the sea. The sky was blue, ... ...the other side of the Mediterranean - Africa. Tunisia.
And we were on an important hill that for centuries had counted as a critical centre of civilisation. I was determined to see Carthage.
'You want to see the museum,' the helpful lady behind reception at our hotel had said, 'and the ruins.'
Wanting to escape being press-ganged into a tour by an over-eager taxi driver my husband and I decided we'd do Carthage on our own. The Carthage ruins are ...
KatherineA 12.10.2005
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Advantages: warm, great views, tour guides, wine Disadvantages: may get to warm, time at Carthage
...my early years at school and can now say I have been and can easily say I would go again.
I am sure Carthaga isnt Carthaga but carthage and it is pronounced CAR- thage.
so appoligies if I am proved wrong its like that on the fron of my books. ...
dingoo 23.03.2004
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