... Iriver 40 gig MP3 players for all our music, movies and episodes of Nip/Tuck, and loads of power adaptors !!! Overkill, never !!!
Now, Tunisia as a place, might not be the most exciting of places for some, but we are here for the Roman ruins, and also ...
... TGM stop and loads of hotels. We found one that suited our requirements and then took a walk up to the medina. It's the biggest in Tunisia, and use to be surrounded by walls, but they were blown up a long time ago. There are a few gates remaining, and ...
... French will make it easier to find your way out. A fun day included a short train ride( about 20 km) from Tunis to Sidi Bou Said on Tunisia's north coast. It is a quaint, arty city of blue and white. Walking the narrow, cobbled streets of ...
... is desert so I guess we can look forward to a lot of dusty brown and not much green.
I was wrong. Tunis is in the green section of Tunisia. Olive groves are everywhere and each is generally planted with the trees widely spread and in between ...
... -day tour that included Gammarth, Carthage, Dougga, Tozeur, Douz, Matmata, Djerba, Sousse, Monastir, Rabat, and back to Tunis. We were told that Tunisia is one of the most visitor-friendly North African country, and we were able to ride their camels and ...
... twisting lanes of a medina that is bustling in the daytime and almost totally deserted at night. The tour is now officially concluded. Two members leave tomorrow while the rest of us make an optional excursion to the Roman site called Dougga. Stay ...
... that it is totally free to enter! Always a bonus! The final leg of our journey before reaching Tunis was via Dougga to Hammamet. Dougga is Tunisia’s answer to Leptis Magna. It is a vast, sprawling site of Roman ruins and includes ...
... on every in this region and you can see why
they talk about the bounty that this land has always produced for the
people of Tunisia.
Dougga for those not reading up on Tunisia was a Roman town built on a
hillside around 164AD. It is one of the ...
... to the ancient Roman city of Dougga today. This is a first for me, as we didn't include Dougga last year. We head southwest out of Tunis, through fertile lands with grape vineyards and olive groves, glimpsing the occasional jagged peak in the distance ...