22/11/2020
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🌐Kerkennah
Reputable for its beautiful sunsets, Kerkennah Islands are a group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès. The Islands are low-lying, being no more than 13 meters above sea level. The main islands are Chergui and Gharbi. The archipelago has an area of 160 square kilometers and a population of 15,501 (2014)
A myth says that God, in molding paradise, rejected what did not suit him; thus, from these rejects of paradise, were born the Kerkennah islands whose diversity is a uniqueness, so harmonious it is, combining the opposites in a rich complementarity. Concretely, in the present day and the daily life of Kerkennah, it is only a question of the unity of which the human sciences speak today, this Unitax multiplex of the ancients. It’s not for nothing, by the way, that the islands are famous for their winds which blow almost all the time at the Kerkennah qualifying point of gusty. Here is what the old people of the islands say about it: when at sunset, the sublime breath traverses the vast sleeping fields, when the last rays of twilight are lost, between vineyards, fig-trees, and palm groves, at the pampered feet of the murmuring women shore waters, spirits are awakening! Until dawn, insomniacs, romantics, and dreamers, they will wait; they will tell them life story, initiating them into the secrets of the beyond where Kerkennah comes from.
