The last Leg of our trip in Tunisia

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Here we are on our last leg of the journey by ship to the Mediterranean: Tunisia, our second taste of Africa.
As always there waiting for a bus to the port of Tunis with a guide that will take us today to visit the Bardo Museum, Carthage and the village of Sidi Bou Said.
Purtroppol a ship arrives in port with some delay and, moreover, the process to stamp the passport was a punishment: we were in the queue inside the halls of the ship for about half an hour before you get all in the room where the authorities have tunsine checked and stamped our passports and ...... all the time lost will not be recovered, since the ship does not posticiperà his departure.
Then our day of Tunisia will be a little shorter than expected ....
Just get off, we see immediately how different this country from Libya, which have left only the day before: here tourism is highly developed, there are vendors of souvenirs anywhere on the quay of the port that have improvised and stalls selling everything!
From the windows Tunis seems like a city vibrant and modern fountains, posters, cars, paths and trees ... so, so many people around the streets.
You see men dressed elegant women dressed quietly go to the "West", as in any of our cities and the impression is that of a country that is much closer to what we think of Africa and that seems have little ...
We arrive at the Museum of Bardo, and just gotten off the bus, we are assailed by hawkers trying to propionate everything from necklaces to small Bonghi ..... and stumbled into a really fun character, a Tunisian by the skin clear and with two beautiful blue eyes that just realized that we are Italians, began to sing songs of every part of Italy and in the correct local dialect! We really enjoyed hearing him speak in our language correctly and to know so well that even the popular power of globalization ... ..... mah!
The interior of the museum, which occupies, in fact the home of former governor of Tunisia, is completely adorned the walls and floors of many mosaics from Carthage ... very beautiful.
Unfortunately, the visit to the museum is pretty fast for reasons already mentioned lack of time, then leave and depart at a time of Carthage and the site is quite far from the city and we get the new district and "in" Tunis: here houses, all very big and completely white, have very high prices, which are very close to the Italians, while the streets are new, spacious and very clean.
The site of Carthage is quite disappointing: the ancient city was really little, since it was almost entirely destroyed by vandals and the few remaining rocks bordering the sea and stand right next to the house of the Tunisian president, completely surrounded by a high wall white and to which the guide advises us to take pictures if you do not want to see us requisitioned the camera.
Left the site, the guide leaves us time to do some shopping: we get to a nogozietto of souvenirs, where we have to negotiate not just for the price of a Narghile: then obtained for the price they want us, but they are practically forced to leave my hat to the shopkeeper that he wants for his son .... and in return my hat gives me a rose of the desert ..... I did not really want to leave my hat, which was l ' I had only shelter from the sun, but I thought the happiness of the Tunisian child and in the end I surrendered.
The last stage of our short stay in Tunisia is the village of Sidi Bou Said: we have only half an hour of time before returning to the ship, so we have to go through.
Sidi Bou Said is very nice: it's not far from Carthage and stands on a hill near the sea and is famous for its characteristic blue color of doors and windows adorning its white houses.
In fact, colored in blue are also infer the windows, lamps, baskets of trash and benches, which makes this place truly unique, even if too and a lot of tourist people.
The main street of the village is up, full of souvenir shops and do almost hard to walk, since there's so many people and that Tunisians do not lose the occasion to try to do business with tourists.
Viette only just outside the main street you can find some 'peace and you can admire the white houses that overlook the green sea of Tunisia.
Our visit to Tunisia ends with this picture, it's time to go home ...