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Kairouan Slideshow
Top Hotels in Kairouan
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Hotel La Kasbah Kairouan
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Continental Kairouan
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Amina Hotel Kairouan
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Hotel Splendid Kairouan
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Kairouan
Travel Blogs from Kairouan, Tunisia
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North African road trip.
This is a top pick! ... be the highlight of the trip. With pretty good and more or less empty roads, it did not take us long to reach the city of Kairouan. We just stopped for a couple of hours, but really enjoyed the place. Then we continued on to the town of El Jem (or El ...
A Holy City
This is a top pick! ... the tourist thing. The 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 ...
Day 88 - Kairouan
... get back to Europe. I want to be home now. I did see chilli-ville. Just outside Kairouan. More chillis than a penguin popsicle party. Literally covering all the houses of just this one town, Enough ...
Tunisia's Holy City
... white/sandstone streets and structures of each town. These are a couple of little examples of what I mean... Our departure from Kairouan was a little delayed due to carpet buying - it made me laugh how it was perfectly fine to delay the trip for ...
Ancient Arab city
Kairouan was an ancient Arab city, founded in about 900AD. We saw the exteriors of two mosques and walked through the old town, then drove through the dry desert countryside to the seaside resort of Port el Kantaoui. PEK was mainly a shopping destination ...
Kairouan Photo Essay Only
Posts are getting difficult to catch up with so this one is a Photo essay only. ...
Kairouan
... include the ville nouvelle from French colonialism. Everything here seems ancient. The domed buildings throughout Tunisia are plentiful in Kairouan. A row of these whitewashed minarets mark the buildings surrounding the outdoor market that hugs the ...
Kairouan
Our final stop was the holy city of Kairouan Kairouan is Tunisia's holiest city, with more than 50 mosques within the medina. Kairouan is the 4th most important city in the Islamic World after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. The grande Mosquee de ...
3ème jour : SBEITLA · KAIROUAN
... ; - ;) - Puis continuation vers Kairouan, ville sainte et capitale spirituelle du pays, autrefois appelée "la ville aux trois cents mosquées": ...
Do You Remember When We Were In Africa
We were actually planning to go to Morocco. In fact, I wanted Africa and the Mediterranean, she wanted Greece. So Tunisia it was. ...
Fieldwork on a forgotten battle.
... on its outskirts. The day we had to move from Hammamet to Port El Kantaoui, we decided to do the excursion to Kairouan. This represented to lost 3/4 hours of hotel, but gaining one entire day for visiting other Tunisian places. We announced our ...
Kairouan-Another World Heritage Site
... tea. That is the way to spend a day. In addition to being the oldest and most renowned carpet center in Tunisia, Kairouan is famous for its sweets – particularly one called a makhroud which is a date-stuffed semolina cookie soaked in ...
Return to Tunis
When he goes: Monday 13th November 2006. Who he goes with (from): Frank (UK), Rebecca (UK), Tim (Nigeria), Neil (UK). How he gets there: Updated data on their way... Where he stays: Updated data on their way... Build-up our ...
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