Primož Jakopin, photo diary

Tunisia, June 2004, part II

All images are 266 x 400 pixels in size; some of them can be clicked to get a 567 x 800 pixel version. Numbers in front of picture descriptions are serial numbers of the original shots (2048 x 3072 pixels). Walid is on most of the cave pictures. Names in italics have been given by the author. Copyright (c) P. Jakopin 2004

Ghar Djebel Serj/Grotte de la Mine

Salle Habib Bourgiba

8656. Dripstone pans below the Heart stalactite

8657. Heart stalactite from below

8658. Light-coloured cave decorations below the upper plateau

8660. White sugarcone-shaped stalagmite

8661. The passage above the upper rim of the lake

8662. Overhanging dripstone cascades to the north of the lake

8663. Lightcolour play - all the nuances from white to cream, beige, orange and brown

8664. Deity with lifted hands stalagmite

8665. Monumental formations at the edge of the precipice to the lower part of the hall

8666. Stalagmites and dripstone pillars covered with half-inch long brown crystals

8671. The boulder in the upper part of the hall, close to the traversée that leads to the connection shaft

Plateau in front of the lower mine entrance, which leads to the cave

8672. Walid and Dondon having breakfast

Large plateau in front of the main mine entrance, with the fireplace

8673. Morning smalltalk after a night under the stars: ZiwZiw, Walid, Khomsi, Taher and Sousou

8674. Briefing with Dondon, Taher on the phone: ZiwZiw, Khomsi, Walid, Taher, Sousou and Dondon

Main mine entrance

8675. A view from outside, Taher

8676. A view from inside

Portraits outside the lower mine entrance

8677. Walid

8678. Sousou

8679. ZiwZiw (Meher)

8680. Taher

8681. Khomsi

8682. Khomsi, with sunglasses

Descent through the mine

8683. Walid descending towards the bottom of the second shaft

The water source in the cave

8684. The source water had 12.8 deg. Centigrade, it pours out from the fissure above a small lake

8685. A view from the source to the wider part of the gallery, contre-jour

8687. Translucent calcite helectites in the ceiling niche

8688. Dark and light striped curtains, a view in

Grande Salle

8690. A view from the gallery to the source towards the cave entrance hall with a ladder leading to the mine

8691. The dripstone wall with visitor signatures, entrance hall

8692. Stalagmite with turban?-shaped top, entrance hall, view from the south

8693. Dripstone monuments to the east of the entrance hall

8696. Walid face-to-face with the Male stalagmite

8697. La Cathedrale, the largest dripstone monument of the cave, a view from the north

8698. Boulders and dripstone formations at the wall east of entrance hall, a view to the north

8700. DonDon sitting on top of the Skull stalagmite

8701. Walid and DonDon at the Skull stalagmite

8702. Gypsum crystals on the wall of the fissure, DonDon

8720. Creamcoloured dripstone cascade close to the entrance hall

8721. DonDon at the bottom of the second shaft in the mine

   I - From Zaghouan to Djebel Serj      III - Zaghouan and Djerba  

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