The Imperial Shipyards
Imperial Community => Imperial Break Room => Topic started by: jkno on August 10, 2008, 12:50:17 AM
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I visited Tunisia at the end of March 2008. I lived in a hotel at Sousse at the Mediterranean seaside (awesome sunrise). We visited the Ep.1 movie set in the middle of the Tunisian desert and I got some really cool stuff also like desert crystals, Matmata (one of the SW locations) cards and some cool fridge magnets with Tataouine (Tatooine).
I found a nice crystal rock just on a sand dune 50 meters from the SW movie set, and I also got some cool desert rocks (flower like rocks made of salted sand - really unique), which local people called Berbers pick up on a salt lake about 20 km from the SW set.
We lived in Sousse at the Karawan hotel in a room with a view at the Mediterranean sea:
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The Roman Amphitheatre at El Jem:
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The desert is all around us:
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Troglodyte underground houses at Matmata:
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Palm tree forest:
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Hotel Mehari in the desert (Douz oasis):
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Sunrise at the Chott el Jerid salt lake:
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The same place Luke stared at the sky in ANH:
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Chebika Oasis near Atlas mountains:
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Desert and more desert (we came in Toyota Jeeps with really professional drivers):
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The Star Wars movie set in the Tunisian desert (about 30 km from Tamerza oasis). More pics HERE (http://"http://good-times.webshots.com/album/563287638qHDdAd"):
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http://www.tunisiaonline.com/starwars/
Keirouan city:
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(http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/711/img0361ta5.jpg)
The capital city, Tunis:
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The bazaar:
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Carthage ruins:
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Sidi Bou Said - the blue and white village:
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Remember the pics with the sunrise at Chott El Jerid salt lake? Or the Tozeur and Nefta oases? I visited all those :)
http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/s/starwars.html
"The exterior of the homestead, where Luke contemplates the two suns, is part of the vast Chott el Jerid, the dry, white salt flat stretching across central Tunisia to the oases of Tozeur and Nefta. The site of Luke’s home, now a couple of filled-in circular pits, can be found a few miles south from Highway 3 on a turnoff just west of Nefta."
Also the English Patient's filming location was close toe the Star Wars one:
http://www.filmscouts.com/SCRIPTs/matinee.cfm?Film=eng-pat&File=locatns
"The desert camp of Count Laszlo de Almásy (Ralph Fiennes) is in the Tunisian Sahara a few miles from the oasis of Nefta. The site is beneath the bizarre Onk Jemal (http://i-cias.com/tunisia/onk_jemal.htm), the Camel's Neck rock formation, not too far from the sets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (http://i-cias.com/tunisia/mos_espa.htm). A guided desert safari, with a four-wheel drive vehicle is the most practical way to see the location."
My own picture of Onk Jemal the Camel's Neck rock (http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2453777960046342714EgUvvD) - a few km from Mos Espa movie set
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Tunisia Star Wars locations:
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All i can say is ....WOW! ;D
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Nice trip Serg! what an experience.
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Thanks! :) It was a unique experience indeed. Maybe next year I'll go again searching for other Star Wars locations.
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And to think you didnt make off with the Vaparator, lol. fett
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That's is just so awesome that there is still stuff at the locations from the shoots. It's too bad the same can't be said for the locations from Lord of the Rings in New Zealand. I'm with you Cimter, I would have wanted to abscond with the vaporator as well. ;D
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The problem is too many other visitors left with small (or large) "souvenirs" and now the set is much more empty that it was before for example. The only things I got from the set was that crystal you can see in the pics above and some of the Desert Roses which are naturally made on the Chott El-Jerid lake not very far away.
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Yeah, good point. I was kidding, ... mostly. ;) Still the walls and frames of tatooine buildings are what really strike me as cool. I'm shocked the vaporator was left behind.
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There are about 3 almost perfect shape moisture vaporators and one that is partially damaged missing the three lateral tubes. Unfortunately all have been written by tourists with their names...
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My trip to Tunisia video with almost everything I visited: Sousse, Port El Kantaoui, El Djem Coliseum, Matmata (troglodyte house), Douz, Tamerza oasis, Chebika oasis, Chott El Jerid salt lake, Keirouan holy city, Sidi Bou Said (blue & white city), Tunis (capital), Carthage ruins, Mediterranean sea, Star Wars movie locations etc.
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Star Wars movie set in the desert video: