Steps have been cut into the highest rock, giving access to a spectacular sunset view over the oasis and the chott (salt lake).

Bill Chott also auditioned for the role of Curly.

"Birth" was inspired by a visit to the Chott el Djerid lake.

The bottom of Chott el Djerid is located between 10 and 25 meters above sea level.

It contains the eastern end of Chott el Fejej.

Seen from the hills above the town the Chott becomes not an arid wasteland but a phantom sea, piercingly blue.

They reach as far as the Chott el Jerid on the province's southern border.

Another salt lake, Chott Felrhir, lies to the southwest of Hamraia.

Mausoleum made entirely from salt at Chott el Jerid, south of Tozeur.

Hamraia is near Chott Melrhir, a large endorheic salt lake that lies to the north of the town.

North and west of this region is the great salt lake known as the Chott el Djerid or Chotts.

In summer, the lake and most the rivers feeding it dry out, and Chott Melrhir turns into a salt pan.

When near a source of loose sand, aeolian deposition can also play a role in the sedimentary deposition on the chott surface.

In summer Chott el Djerid is almost entirely dried up, and numerous fata morganas occur.

The climate in the Chott Melrhir is hot and arid with high evaporation and low precipitation.

Set back from the coast, along the RN1, it is connected to the coast at Chott Meriem.

El M'Ghair lies southwest of Chott Felrhir, a large endorheic salt lake.

The French term "chott" is a transliteration of the Arabic shat, a term for a broad canal, an estuary or lake.

South of Chott el Djerid, the Grand Erg Oriental desert begins.

One last specimen is mentioned as having been 'collected' in the 1920s near Geryville, south of the Chott Ech Chergui.

It is on the edge of the Chott el-Jerid, a saline depression in the Sahara once part of the Mediterranean.

From Tozeur, we struck south-east across the Chott el Jerid, an immense salt lake that covers an area of about 2,000 square miles.

In June 2003, Chott Melrhir was included to the List of Ramsar wetlands of international importance.

While evaporite deposition predominates on chotts, in more humid climatic periods, layers of mud can be deposited on the chott surface.

The narrow eastward inlet of the chott is also known as Chott el Fejej.