rharsa

Updated: May 2, 2025

Once the rock-portal is passed, it unlearns all its sprightly grace and trickles disconsolately through the sands, expiring, at last, in the dreary Chott el Rharsa.

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia

This region, the Djerid, is all sand; an isthmus of sand thrust in between the two Chotts of Djerid and Rharsa; the oases ara scattered about the country, says some old writer, like the spots on a leopard's skin.... The air was keen, and I shivered on my mule, looking back often at the dark forest of Tozeur, where I had spent some happy days.

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia