Before coming to Tunisia one of the only things that I knew about it is that it was used for many filming locations for the Star Wars films. Even though I am not a Star Wars geek, it was obvious that we would try to see some of the sites. It surprised me how genuinely excited I felt to be at them. I think especially because there is zero fanfare about them by the Tunisian people. These crumbling, garbage collecting sites are just places that the people walk by each day but with some upkeep and tourism marketing they could be goldmines!
The first that we visited was the Mos Eisley cantina from Episode IV. Can’t you just hear the music playing?
We walked about 3kms up the coast to Amghar Mosque, which was Obi-Wan’s house in Episode IV.
When we got off the bus in Medenine we were only about 1 block away from Anakin’s hovel from Episode I.
We found that right around the times that we were at these sites something special happened, like we walked to the road and the exact bus that we needed was just driving by, or that we were standing right by a perfect little coffee shop with wifi. I have to think the force was strong with us at these places.
We’ve moved to the mountains now. Spoiler alert… the next post is going to be a gooder!