If you really must see all that Makthar has to offer, then you can take short walks to the far corners of the archaological site in search of the House of Venus and the Temple of Hathor Miskar. There is little to see though, and I wasn't altogether sure if it really was a House of Venus or if it was actually some poor b****r's stone house that collapsed in the last decade.
Just about visible over the perimeter wall, behind a cemetery, is another temple, this one dedicated to Apollo. Local kids and freelance dandelion pickers hop in and out of the site like nobody's business, but should you be tempted to do the same, be warned that you may be mistaken for a dandelion picker and shouted at by the little man in the suit who has enough dandelion-pickers for one day and doesn't need any more, thank you very much.
Written Apr 24, 2007
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