Red Lizard Train - Lezard Rouge

[katharina]

Originally Posted by Essem

Well worth a trip if you are down south, is the Lezard Rouge train. It starts at Metlaoui (about 40kms from Tozeur) and the train line follows an old mining track to a working phosphate mine. The train is like something out of the old wild west and the landscape is spectacular - I was half expecting to see some cowboys & indians!! Trip last about 45 minutes. Will try to upload some of my pix tomorrow.

That sounds like a fun train excursion. Tunisian cowboys and indians... now wouldn't THAT be a sight?! :-) Was this train ride very expensive? I'll
look forward to seeing your pictures, too.

[Essem]

Hi Katharina, It was fun and cheap too - can't remember exactly how much. Couldn't manage to upload pix here but you can view them on www.nomarmiteintunisia.co.uk and look under Attractions of the South. Enjoy!

[Roseheart]

Hi Essem,
those photo's are "WoW" fantastic.
My hubby's family are from the next Village to Metloaui, place called Moulares and his father worked in the phosphate company for many years until ill health!
Havent been on the red lizard train myself but have been on train from Sousse down to Metlaoui which took 8 hours (night train) Have also visited Tamerza and there are really some breathtaking sights down in the south... Havent seen the pomegranate trees in full season either ...... would love to be there picking them so would my four year old..she loves them and always talking about the ones that are growing on her Nana's land...
Havent tried to upload photos on this site before but has re-sizing the pictures pixels got anything to do with? maybe?
worth a look on nomarmite just to get a look at those beautiful sights...
Thankyou very much

[Grace 111]

My Grandma had apple trees and we picked those every summer. They were green and delicious. We had about 6 trees, and the blossoms were white when they bloomed. What a smell!

[Roseheart]

Originally Posted by Essem

Hi there, Have tried to upload the photos but message is telling me that limit is 97.7KB and my photos range from 380 to 523.9 KB. I'm not too technical and I don't know if there is any way around this. Can anyone help please? If no solution would be delighted to email you the photos - also got one of a pomegranite tree in the middle of the date palms in Nefta and some of the salt lake and salt camels at Chott el Djerid. Had a quick look on google but can only find references to LR on a couple of sites so far.

Hi Essem..
Just had a go at uploading a couple of photos and i dont know how I managed it first time but I did... hehe

[Essem]

Hi Roseheart, I've already seen them and they are fantastic, really lovely. I'm not great at taking photos but I like to have a go - to capture some memories! I keep meaning to carry my camera with me for the unexpected pix - but I always seem to forget it!!!
I was trying to upload onto this page, as I'd seen that someone had done something similar before on another page, but the message i got told me that my file was bigger than could be uploaded. I've uploaded photos onto the gallery too and it was straightforward. Hope to see many more of yours. Well done!

[Kris]

Hi Guys i have a blog entry and more photos of this area from two week ago under nipping down south.

[arabchique]

Did this too... omg... it was great... apart from the same tape going over and over and over and over... well, you get the idea... lol

Would recommend it tho... scenery is something else...