An amateur travelogue produced by Peter Dobing and George Theaker of visit to Tunisia in North Africa primarily to see the Sahara Desert. They visit a number of locations including Tozeur on the edge of the desert and the Great Mosque of Kairouan as well as towns such as Sidi Bou Said and Mamata. They also visit a number of Roman sites including the Zaghouan Aqueduct and the El Djem amphitheatre. As well as recording the place visited, the film also captures many of the people who live and...

An amateur travelogue produced by Peter Dobing and George Theaker of visit to Tunisia in North Africa primarily to see the Sahara Desert. They visit a number of locations including Tozeur on the edge of the desert and the Great Mosque of Kairouan as well as towns such as Sidi Bou Said and Mamata. They also visit a number of Roman sites including the Zaghouan Aqueduct and the El Djem amphitheatre. As well as recording the place visited, the film also captures many of the people who live and work at these desert location. Title: Peter Dobing and George Theaker present Title: Sands of the Sahara A bus travels along a dusty road or track through the Sahara Desert in Tunisia. An oasis of green in a desert landscape. Pedestrians walk along a street in the town of Tozeur. Bunting and colourful decorations hang across streets as a man carries a machine to disinfect the street in readiness for a state visit to recognise the town as the state capital. A man rides past on a camel. A large crowd gather at a street market, nearby a herd of sheep. Two small children walk through the market passing a lorry loaded with more sheep. Men buy vegetables from street sellers. At the Great Mosque of Kairouan or Mosque of Uqoba a man sits in the shade. A group of tourists visiting the mosque walk around the decorative prayer hall. Two small children sit and stand in a decorative courtyard as the tour group pass through. Three tourists, including George Theaker, admire a carpet on sale at a shop in a local market. Inside the tour group watches a local woman works producing a new carpet. Outside pedestrians walk along a busy street passing shops selling decorative clothing and metal work. A craftsman barters a price with a group of visitors while at the same time continuing to inscribe a solid brass mortar bowl. A price is agreed and paid, and he continues to work. On a table beside him other brass mortar and pestles for sale. At Sidi Bou the houses are painted blue and white while at Mamata a woman works to ground cereal in her home cut from solid rock. In the courtyard of one of these subterranean houses a tour group. A local Berber woman stands in the doorway of her house smiling, her hair under a scarf dyed with henna and her face covered with tattoos. A couple take a ride on a horse and trap speeding along a desert road, local children cheer then on. A scorpion walks across the sand changing to show date palms at an oasis through which the group walks. They walk through spring water which comes up through the ground passing various coloured flowers grow from bushes and date trees. At a Roman ruin, possibly the city of Carthage, local children use the high stone buildings to jump from into the water below. The Zaghouan Aqueduct is followed by views around another Roman site that includes an olive press with wildflowers now growing around it. At El Djem the remains of the Roman amphitheatre outside which a stall selling decorative metalwork. A number of tourists stand at a stall are followed by another Roman ruin with decorative mosaic floor. At a nearby cemetery Roman stones are used for gravestone. A hairy caterpillar crawls through the sand. Storm clouds gather of a barren desert through which the tour group walk creating a mirage. A snake slithering across the sand changes to a bus being pushed by a number of local men. As the bus moves of the men wave, nearby some of the tourists also wave. Back in Tozeur a band in military uniform performs music as part of an official government visit for a crowd of onlookers, a small girl waves a Tunisian flag. The crowd applaud as the minister walks through the crowds, a Tunisian flag faps in the wind while others decorate buildings. With the visit over people go about as normal and the film ends on a field of grass and barren desert. End credit: A film by Peter Dobing and George Theaker