The Insane Roman Coliseum You've Never Heard Of (El Jem, Tunisia) Travel Vlog الجمّ , تونس

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The Insane Roman Coliseum You've Never Heard Of (El Jem, Tunisia) Travel Vlog الجمّ , تونس


In this vlog, we’re visiting El Jem (or El Djem), Tunisia. This city in the center of Tunisia is home to one of the largest and best-preserved Roman coliseums outside of Rome! I’ll also show you what it’s like to take a ‘louage’ — a Tunisian minibus.

**Arabic subtitles available!**

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  1. I've been to both too and I actually think el jem was a much better experience, less people, and you can go in the gladiator pits and stuff in this place

  2. The El Jem Theater is Carthaginian, not Roman. The Romans did not build anything, even the Colosseum Theater in Rome, an imitation of the Carthaginian El Jem Theater. 🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳🇹🇳

  3. My wife and I visited Tunisia a few years ago and took a trip to El deem, it was beautiful, however the next day a suicide bomber tried to get in to our hotel and then blew himself up on the beach, it was frightening but so was the reaction by the police, the army and the locals, the following year there was a terrorist attack on the hotel next to this one, over 30 people were killed. Just be very careful.

  4. I visited this place as a teenager, and the guide told us that the holes (kind of shaped as 3 or 4-petal flowers @13.47 -above the lamps and all the spiders web in the "roof" underground) had a purpose to let the blood drip down from the arena, to trigger the blood thirst to the lions underground waiting to come up and fight.

  5. I'm tunisian I'm in kef , El kef is not bad and we have a place name is qasba its a Italian place but the tunisian take it . Come to kef and I will take u to hotel ,u must eat a tunisian food like lablabi

  6. I visited about 20 years ago I loved the place but the people were so hostile and I felt so uncomfortable I was always looking over my shoulder it's quite sad really.
    Hello gem is a fantastic place to visit also worth noting are the Roman mosaics which you can visit in one of the museums absolutely incredible.

  7. Just found (started following), I didn't realise how safe Tunisia looks, as I want to take my wife over for my B/Day and see the sights. Thanks for sharing and great editing and drone footage. Great! 🙏

  8. Actually it’s not Roman.. it’s carthagian if you focus on the walls you’ll see tanit and Baal-Hamoon the carthagian gods.. android it’s also older than the roman one with 500 years.. Rome was just a raider who won and wrote the history and took all the credit .. this is insane..