More Fatimid remains by maykal
Opposite the entrence to the Borj el Kebir, local kids may beckon you over to explore the ruins of...well, I'm not quite sure what. Whether palace, brothel or grainstore, they're not very impressive, but worth a wander, if only to chat to the kids and the old women who take their sheep for walks on this ruin-strewn patch of grass. There is a gate, which looks as if it might be there for a purpose, but nobody takes much notice of it, so wander in at will.The two kids in my photo were keen to show me around, although neither could tell me anymore about the history than the sheep could. They did talk a lot though, and unusually for a tourist site, seemed to want to talk rather than ask for cadeaux or un stilo or des bonbons. No doubt the old woman tending the sheep could have known something about the ruins, but she was a bit shy and did not want to chatter with the likes of me.
