Shahat and Soussa quick snapshots

A while back I was traveling through the green mountians, in Libya, with a friend and I managed to grab some photo's of two sites in Shahhat and Soussa ( here's a Google map link of their location, Soussa is directly North of Shahat ). The first set of pictures are from Soussa port and it depicts some of the ruins of the ancient greek city of Apollonia, large parts of which was destroyed and submerged under the sea by an earthquake in 365 AD. The main attraction is this old house in the picture below, which was carved either into a huge rock or into some, now non-existing, cliff side; but from the pictures its obvious there were no bricks. You can notice behind it some guys in an almost totally submerged building that hosts a number of underground rooms the doors of which you can notice if you click on the picture and zoom in. You might get a better view from the second picture.



Here I started to wade in with my jeans pulled up to my knee's, so you could get a view of the front door :P.


This is from inside the house looking towards the sea


This is me looking out through the front door, not much privacy eh ?


Here I climbed the roof and you can see the hole in the ceiling used to climb up. I also discovered that I'm not so young and fit as I used to be :P.


I took the following two from the top of the house, the first one is facing the sea and shows the walls surrounding the house's garden and the gateway/door .
The second one shows the left side of the port and place where I was standing when I took the first two pictures. ( just so you get an idea of the layout :P )



These two pictures are from the left side of the port from where the cars are above, and it looks like a submerged room that is used for swimming and diving, they refer to it as the 'Cleopatra pool' don't ask me why though .




After I finished up with my photo's in Soussa we went up the mountains to Shahhat to what is called the " Shahahat tourist resort" . Its basically a bunch of small house's at the top of a cliff with a park for children and a restraunt and coffee shop but it's close to all the archeological sites so its a good place to stay in. What really makes it special though is that both its restraunt and coffee shop are built into a set of caves in the side of the cliff. When we arrived there lunch was being served so I couldn't grab pictures of the restaurant; but I got pictures of the coffee shop which was empty at the time.
This is the parking lot with a traditional Libyan tent on the right side


This is the front door to the coffee shop.


The following two are of the reception area of the coffee shop ............




and this is the lounge ..... couldn't get a clear set of the TV area as there was a guy watching football ......... but you probably get the idea .