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Cool Facts about Tunisia

Cool Facts about Tunisia. Tunisia. Star War was filmed in Tunisia .

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Cool Facts about Tunisia

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  1. Cool Facts about Tunisia

  2. Tunisia

  3. Star War was filmed in Tunisia. For the home planet of Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the desert planet of ‘Tatooine’, Lucas chose the landscapes and native architecture of Tunisia (Tataouine is a real Tunisian town, some miles south of the movie location).

  4. Luke’s sunken home was in the town of Matmata, where homes are burrowed into the soft local sandstone from the sides of circular pits. The interior is one of the inner courtyards of the SidiDriss Hotel, where you can still see the murals and some of the set dressing from the movie.

  5. Raiders of the Lost Ark was set in Egypt — all the archaeological digging scenes and those nasty bits with the snakes in particular. Its commonly thought that these scenes where shot in Cario, near the Pyramids. However director Steven Spielberg actually shot them here in Tozeur and the city of Kairouan, not far from many of the Star Wars locations

  6. Television antennas. All the houses in Kairouan (doubling for Cairo) had TV antennas on the roofs. To get an overhead shot of the city, they had to get the locals to take down their TV antennas, because the movie takes place before TV was invented. Read more: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_raiders_of_the_lost_ark_was_being_filmed_it_Tunisia_what_300_were_removed_to_make_a_scene#ixzz1xbiZy0zo

  7. Camel Racing • Camel racing is held quite close to heart amongst the Tunisian people. Many camel races that are conducted here are one if the main highlights and is also one of the most commonly Bedouin events here in this region.

  8. Tunisian Flag

  9. Tunisia’s Coat of Arms

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