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Article: Celebrating the Sahara; On the desert's edge in Tunisia, people gather to dance, race camels and revel in the vast sands.(TRAVEL)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- October 23, 2005
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Byline: Catherine Watson
At first, traveling in Tunisia felt like turning the pages of a Mediterranean scrapbook. Everything reminded me of someplace else. The olive groves could have been Spain or France. The Roman ruins were as good as Italy's. The white-washed villages looked like rural Greece.
But that was in the north. Halfway down the length of this small North African country, the Sahara Desert took over, and the Sahara is like nothing else on earth - nothing but itself.
A lobe of the great desert juts northward into Tunisia, and I headed for a small town on its edge - Douz, known for its immense grove of date palms, a lively weekly ...