We left Bizerte at 9:00am to drive south. The plan was to head for Jugurtha’s Table, a flat topped mountain near the Algerian border, close to the town of Kalaat es-Senan.
Close to our destination we were stopped at a National Guard checkpoint and were asked for our passports. After a phone call we were handed back our passports and allowed to continue. The guidebook described a two hour walk to reach the top and back, but we found a 4x4 track which lead almost to the summit! A short, 10 minute walk up stone steps, and we were on the top.
Getting back to the car just before dusk, we found a group of Italians had set up camp. We decided to car camp there too. After cooking tea, we were sat reading in the Land Rover when headlights appeared in the darkness. A pair of National Guards had come up to check all passports. Having rung in our details we were bid goodnight.
Today was the day JC would start his ride from Spain to Genoa, in Italy, to catch the ferry to Tunisia on Saturday.
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