August 13, 1979
![acqueduct, Sbeitla, Tun.](https://amitavghosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/acqueduct-Sbeitla-Tun.-300x212.jpg)
The next day we went off to Sbeitla. Their plans originally were to go to Bulla Regia,
![](https://amitavghosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Amphitheatre-Bulla-Regis-Tunisia-202x300.jpg)
but they decided to go to Sbeitla instead – the deciding factor apparently being that I hadn’t ever been there, whereas I had already been to Bulla Regia.
![](https://amitavghosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Bulla-Regia-2-3-cent-AD-Tun.-300x211.jpg)
Sbeitla was spectacular; enjoyed the ruins even more than those at Dougga – although this wasn’t quite right for Dougga is really better. But Sbeitla is built in a marvelous golden stone (rather like Bath) and we saw it when it had the setting sun on it so it was melancholy and haunting.
![](https://amitavghosh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Sbeitla-2-Tun.-198x300.jpg)