Tunisia Travel Blogs

Resort break in Tunis
Aug 2, 2006 (5 photos)

He Said: We flew from Casablanca to Tunis, Tunisia yesterday evening. What a trial that was! I don't think my descriptive powers are quite vivid enough to paint an accurate picture of the situation so I am going to defer to Katie to give the full ...

Moseying through mosaics and final words on Tunis
Aug 3, 2006 (3 photos)

... people were very friendly and quite hospitable in every way. We never felt threatened, harassed, or cheated (except by cabbies). Tunisia hardly seems like a Muslim nation. Alcohol is sold everywhere, very few women are in full veil, and most people ...

Loretta
Jan 8, 2007 (39 photos)

Leave a man to plan the trip and no doubt they'll stuff it up. David had given us too many days before our Libya tour so we had an extra one to kill. Against policy, we decided to go backwards and visit the fabled third largest colesseum in the Roman ...

Love those doors
Jan 18, 2007 (87 photos)

I can't get enough of the lovely doors! 

Nothing Else Matters.
Nov 8, 2007 (26 photos)

... . So I have to be careful. At least I had done little or no additional planning. I knew practically nothing about Tunisia. Hannibal, Phoenicians, El Jem, The Bardo Museum, Carthage, beach resorts and about 98% Muslims. Popular with French tourists I think. ...

White Birthday
Nov 29, 2006 (10 photos)

... the emails and ecards) and what a birthday it was! We hired a taxi van and driver to take us around the south of Tunisia. We figured this would be the best way to see everything we wanted to see. The driver spoke English (and ' other languages- North ...

Evil tun
Jan 8, 2007 (19 photos)

The youth hostel here is a restored fundouq which is kind of like a caravansari of the old days. Travellers could bring their animals inside for safety. The people slept on the first floor with the animals on the ground. It's very basic but a great place ...

Birds Galore
Nov 24, 2006

So after resting up from our travels we went into Tunis (which is where I posted the quick post about arriving safely). We later enjoyed a tour around the medina from a man named Farouq who showed us the view from the top of a carpet building which used ...

Sousse for a night
Jan 15, 2007 (48 photos)

A look round the Rabat and the museum and then we were off.

Africa
Nov 23, 2006 (2 photos)

... time at the internet cafe (plus the kids have been waiting while we try and figure out our next move) We arrived safley in Tunisia and are planning to leave Tunis tomorrow morning to head south to Zarzis or Jerba. Once we settle in I will try to locate ...

Coliseum
Dec 12, 2006 (5 photos)

(I am writing this from Ontario-I can't believe I didn't write about it in Monastir...)   So we went to see a Roman Coliseum at El Jem. It is the third largest Coliseum in the world. (and since I've been home people who have seen the one in Rome ...

Dolphins
Nov 27, 2006 (5 photos)

So we left Tunnis by bus this morning at 9am and arrived in Houmt Souq on the Island of Jerba at 5pm. On our way there we had to go on a ferry. As we were on the ferry we were very lucky to spot a number of dolphins junping and playing alongside the ferry ...

Carpet-ville
Jan 16, 2007 (59 photos)

We did buy some pieces - just three.

May the force be with you...
Oct 23, 2007 (17 photos)

Tunisia is such a change of pace from Egypt.  The French influence is strong, as is the coffee!  Had light buttery pastries for breakfast this am with the ladies of my new group.  Rick and I met up with the group yesterday at our historic ...

Crawling through boxes?
Dec 11, 2006 (2 photos)

Hi all, So Andrew was talking to the kids the other night and asking them - "Do you know what you kids can do better than your Dad?" and without skipping a beat Brett says "Crawling through boxes?" We all had a good laugh as the conversation was very ...

And We're Off!
Dec 17, 2006 (2 photos)

Well here I am for the last time in an internet cafe writing to you all. (Well at least for this half of the trip). I hope to use some time at home over Christmas to upload a bunch of pictures to the site so you can see what we have seen. We were ...

North African road trip.
Nov 10, 2007 (30 photos)

... now on what I missed out on because of my early flight out to Spain on the last day of our trip to Tunisia). So after taking the train from Tunis one day to visit the mandatory site of Carthage and the pleasant and touristy coastal town of ...

Life in the Star Wars hotel
Jun 10, 2006 (21 photos)

... to Egypt failed due to cost and visa issues. I'd almost written the goal off, but once I found out that ferries sail to Tunisia from Sicily getting here became possible again. When I found myself on the punctual 6am train to Gabes I knew it would all work ...

Bulla Regia, Dougga and Le Kef
Apr 2, 2005

David was desperate for a break. He'd been working loads. So Lonely Planet in hand, off we went. Carpets, roman ruins, Monty Python and Star Wars here we come! I had heard it was more laid back than Morocco and that the food was good. Tunisian red ...

Is there any place these guys didn't go?
Oct 31, 2007

Arrived in Tunis via three trains yesterday...oh joy.  Our first stop on the way was Monastir where we had breakfast and wandered around the historic fort where they filmed Monty Python's Life of Brian.  Clearly a place of major importance...oh and some ...

Random Thouhgts
Dec 5, 2006

Ok so a lot of you who know what a picky eater I am asked me how I was going to handle this world travel thing. My answer was this: I figure there will always be bread and fruit wherever we are. ... I have something to add to that list... Nutella. I haven ...

Moving on
Dec 8, 2006 (5 photos)

Just a quick note to let you all know we are leaving our house in Zarzis to move about 3hours north to live in Monastir for the last 9 days in Tunisia. I will post from there. We might even have a phone!!   Miss you all Julia

Tunis: home of Hannibal then sown with salt
Jun 9, 2006 (37 photos)

... want to hear that you've already had 6 beers tonight. At least the last customs guy said a friendly 'Welcome to Tunisia!' From there everything improved immensely. Nice sleep in a flashy 3 star hotel and then into the World Heritage-listed ...

Tunis to Sfax
Jan 7, 2007 (7 photos)

... it is colder than Morocco. So where am I in January? We wanted to go to Libya though and the cheapest way was through Tunisia. The price of flights dictated our dates. At least there wouldn't be so many tourists around. How cold could it really be? Not ...

Sultan of Chocolate
Dec 1, 2006 (1 photos)

Hi all, I had to let you all know about my second birthday celebration. Because we were out in the Sahara on my birthday we celebrated last night at home. The kids and Andrew prepared a feast of Chocolate. Eight courses in all. Yes, all chocolate! I ...

Golfing in Tunisia
Nov 12, 2006

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Laid up in Tozeur Oasis
Jun 12, 2006 (24 photos)

... place. It was almost a shame to reach the green expanse of Tozeur which apparently contains no less than 266,000 of Tunisia's finest date palms. After resting up from the journey I decided to head out and find more Star Wars sets, as the area ...

A Holy City
Jan 18, 2007 (63 photos)

... main reason for being here is the Mosque here is the oldest in the country. As Kairouan was where Islam first took hold in Tunisia, this makes it special. Some people say that if you visit Kaitouan seven times, it is the equivalent of going to Mecca for ...

Tunisia, the prologue
Apr 2, 2005

... 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 a ...

Mosaics
Jan 16, 2007 (75 photos)

Am I getting use to living in Izzyville? Maybe. I missed the call for pray. Always good to see. Once up and packed, we headed for the nearest café for my Capusin hit. Once I had two down me, the louage gare beckoned us. There was one guy going to both ...