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I was woken at around 6am with Sy drawing back the curtain with camera in hand so I knew straight away there was something worth seeing. I wasn't wrong as the beautiful sunrise came into view. I laid in bed just staring at it rise in the sky and smiling as the heat started to come though the open door.
After a massive first day breakfast we were picked up on the coach to go Quad Biking. We arrived and got kitted out in our lids but they didn't have little ones so mine wasn't tight to my head. We had a brief show of how the bikes worked then we were off. From the first 5 minutes I could tell my brakes didn't work and throughout the ride it became apparent that no-ones did as I was like oversize bumper cars. Good course though and we went through sand, water, ridges, olive groves & a circuit. My thighs were feeling it as I'd spent a lot of it stood up (better on the bum).
We got home in time for lunch and decided to walk to Port-El-Kantoui. An hour & a half later we were knackered, walking on sand is very tiring and I spend most of it barefoot in the sea instead.
It was clear that Port-El-Kantoui is built for the tourists; it felt a bit like Disneyland with all the pedestrian walkways etc. However it was nice to go in a shop and actually browse, we knew the prices were hiked up but it gave us an idea of what would be in the medina later on that we might like to buy. I couldn't resist and insisted we got the tuk tuk home, I love those things!! On the drive back we realised just how far we'd walked.
Our legs felt like they'd had a proper workout so we had dinner and crashed in the bar for the night. The hotel had laid on a night of cabaret & belly dancing which I was dreading. I hate things like this that are geared up to the westerners. I know they mean well and people like it but I was cringing the whole way through. The hotels team did some random things and to be fair the belly dancers were awful but being in the bar you couldn't help but witness it. Was so put off when the old people were pulled up to the stage and made to take their shirts off, they're not even my family but I found it embarrassing! Sy & I made our exit pretty quickly with beers to go up to the room!
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