El Djem had a pretty amazing amphitheatre – the Rough Guide is not wrong when it says it is the single most impressive Roman monument in Africa. (I originally read this without the ‘Roman’, and did wonder about the pyramids…)
We had a good scramble around, and I used a cool free iphone app m.osaica to take this and this – click on the different pictures in the image to make them the focus, and use the scroll bar (left hand side) to zoom in to see the people on the opposite side of the amphitheatre.
To create it, you stand in one spot and take overlapping photographs, and it magically stitches them together. Shame the iphone camera doesn’t support zooming (yet) – you can do ‘manual zoom’ by walking towards your subject, but this works less well when at the top of an amphitheatre.
After the amphitheatre we headed to the excellent Archaeological Museum in town. Loads more mosaics – I couldn’t resist making a m.osaica mosaic of a mosaic.
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- The Amphitheatre at El Djem
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- Inside El Djem’s Amphitheatre
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- President Ben Ali. And my ferry on the bottom left
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- The child Dionysius riding a tiger
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