Monuments to visit Ibri

Overlooking the modern city on its southern spur, this fortified village was abandoned half a century ago when the falaj dried up. As evening falls, in the wake of a talkative guard who knows three words of English but had the presence of mind to record historical information in his old Nokia, we wander through the narrow streets and old houses of an 11th century caravanserai offered to termites, but in the process of being rescued. We climb up there to enjoy a 360° view of the region. Ghostly escape into the past.