Star Wars geeks: pinch yourself now. Medenine's Ksour (adobe fortified storehouses) are straight out of the movies (Star Wars Episode One: The Phantom Menace, to be precise).
Originally Medenine was an important staging point on the caravan routes into the interior of Africa, and these organic looking granaries were used as vital warehouses for semi-nomadic families to store their possessions while they were away.
Barrel-vaulted cells were built side-by-side, one over the other, in honeycomb-like blocks up to six stories high.
Most were pulled down in the 1960s to make way for the expansion of the modern town, but one particularly picturesque example – Ksar Medenine – has survived. Its movie-star status brings flocks of visitors here just to see it.
Medenine is 78 kilometers south of Djerba, so it's easily visited as a day trip from the island.
