Within 2 miles of Karen’s place stand the remains of a vast system of cisterns built by the Romans around 250 ad . These were the terminus of a tremendous aqueduct that brought water from 150 k away. We tried sneaking in without paying, but were stopped by two men who explained that we would have to buy tickets for 9 dinars apiece, which would give us access to a number of sights in the region. For some reason we thought we’d have a better chance of getting past if Karen and Paige feigned ignorance of French. We ended up paying 5 dinars for all four of us to get a wonderfully engaging tour of the cistern by the older of the two gents. Toward the end of the tour he displayed several coins that he said he had found on the grounds after rains. Paige was charmed and bought one – and he threw in three small, eroded ones gratis.
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