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Ksar Jouama, Tunisia : Travel Guide
There are several attractions to the tiny Ksar Jouama. The first is the drive up the terrible cart road. The second is the great arrangement of the ghurfas - nothing impressive or grand, but strict, well arranged and narrowing until they reach the end of the mountain top platform.
Looking over
The third attraction are the grand views over the valley beneath running along a 300 degree angle. The fourth attraction is the strange and uncommon zawiyya, which is formed like three ghurfas next to one another, chalked in white, but without a door or any kind. Strange!
Through the streets
That's more or less it. The ghurfas are quite standard for this part of Tunisia, and there are more complex structures to be found in places like Ksar Hadada and Ksar Ouled Soltane. But after you have descended from the mountain top of Ksar Jouama, do not forget to stop to behold it a last time from the new village of the same name as the ksar itself. Ksar Jouama offers some of the finest views of any mountain top ksar there is.
The zawiyya
zawiyya
There is no entrance to this strange , which has its main body made up from three ghurfas. Next to one of these (the one I'm leaning to) is a tiny domed room. This is open, but doesn't lead anywhere.
Ksar on the overhang
It becomes quite impressive when you look back on the ksar from the modern village of Ksar Jouama.
ksar
Practicalities
Hotels and Alternatives
Nothing. Spend the night in Medenine 40 km up the road.
Restaurants and Alternatives
Nothing, only a small food store down in the small new village of Ksar Jouama. Any serious eating is done in Medenine.
Change Money
Nothing. Use the facilities of Medenine.
Transport
There are 2 daily minibuses doing the stretch from Medenine to Beni Kheddache, as well as some shared taxis.
