Douz ( Arabic : دوز dūz ) is a town in the Kebili Governorate in the south of Tunisia , known as the "gateway to the Sahara ." By road it is located 31 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Blidet , 125 kilometres (78 mi) southeast of Tozeur , and 475 kilometres (295 mi) south of the Tunisian capital of Tunis .
3-656: The Mrazig are a previously nomadic people who live in and around the town of Douz , Tunisia . Numbering around 50,000, they are the descendants of the Banu Sulaym tribe who left the Arabian Peninsula in the eighth century. They lived first in Egypt , then Libya , and finally arrived and settled in Tunisia in the thirteenth century. This article about an ethnic group in Africa
6-501: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Douz It has been called the "ultimate palm oasis", because it has over 500,000 palm trees in the area, and it is a major producer of "diglat noor" dates. In previous times it was an important stop on the trans-Saharan caravan routes. Today, it is a destination for tourists who are interested in seeing the desert, and a starting point for desert treks by camel, motorcycle, or four-wheel-drive vehicle. Every year Douz hosts
9-670: The International Festival of the Sahara , a four-day celebration of traditional desert culture. The festival, usually held in November or December, features traditional music and dancing, poetry readings, camel wrestling, and racing of horses and salugis . Douz is home to the Museum of the Sahara , which showcases displays on traditional nomadic desert culture of the Mrazig people who now mostly live
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