When you are standing in a ten-foot-deep hole in a mountainside, you would not expect to be served a cup of tea rivaling any from a fancy coffee shop. Nor would you imagine finding yourself face to face with a television broadcasting hundreds of channels in every major world language. And you would almost certainly never believe that the cave that you were visiting was not the ultimate destination of some spelunking trip but, rather, the home of a family of five. Yet, this scene is exactly what awaited me when I visited the Amizagh cave dwellings in the foothills surrounding the Tunisian village of Matmata.

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