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All about Libya? The promise of the 'Libyan market' is what brings the few tourists coming to Ben Guerdane, unless the have the chance of actually going to Libya. Ben Guerdane is the last city before the 33 km leading past arid landscape and money changers until you reach one of the least organised places in Tunisia: The border to Libya.  Ben Guerdane is a normal Tunisian city, two storey buildings, with 10 metre tall trees on both sides of the road, giving the streets constant, and relieving, shadows. Ben Guerdane is a town of markets, where the most famous is the Libyan one. Every day products are brought in from Libya,- legally,- and carload by carload are sold to Tunisian merchants, who them bring the lot to the dedicated market just north of town centre in Ben Guerdane. From this moment on, things look sadly ordinary. Dusty roads cross between junk electronics, Marlboro cigarettes, cheap clothings, Senegalese tuna boxes, nuts, sun glasses, tires. Prices are good, but illusion of quality depends on how long you look at things from a distance. Anyhow, people from places far away in Tunisia come to this market, and when they start buying, they sometimes end up with carloads of their own.If you get disappointed from the Libyan market, now reduced because of the international embargo on Libya, Thursdays bring a lifestock market, while Saturdays bring a mainly agricultural market. Both are interesting happenings.
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