Tunisia
Travel Blogs from Tunisia
Dust Dirt and Disappointment
Our tour party is a mixed bunch of Europeans. 6 one eyed aussies, 6 english, a few kiwis and a token Canadian. After a quick meeting we set off to the Metro for our trip to Carthage. Metro, thats a laugh, take two broken down electric trains, paint ...
Museums Mosaics and Meatheads
... 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 the trees crops of wheat ...
Sousse & El Jem and back to Tunis
... in Tunisia. We walked from the station to the amphitheatre which is one of the Roamn Empire’s greatest legacies to Tunisia. Just like the colosseum in Rome but its only slightly smaller but its better preserved. It only cost 8 ...
Tunis, Sidi Bou Said and Carthage
... way out of Tunis we travelled to Carthage but decided to go two more stops and check out Sidi Bou Said which is one of Tunisia’s most picturesque towns. A good idea. We got off the train and walked up the street to the mosque and then ...
Bulla Regia and Bulla Casbah
... Arab hordes stormed the battlements. Very boys own you know. Hotel Le Pines was clean and tidy and dinner hearty and cheap. It looks like about $15.00 a day is all you need in Tunisia before the beer allowance of course. Rating for the Day ...
Photos in Tunisia Hammamet / Nabeul Region
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Out of Africa
We had all chosen different tours in Tunisia after being told we needed a visa to go ashore otherwise. Trish and Rex did the scenic drive, Anna and Philip the transfer to the city and we opted for the Best of Tunisia. Our guide was Fati and he kept ...
Zaytuna mosque (Tunis, Tunisia)
... Olive) is a major mosque in Tunis, near the northern coast of Africa. The mosque is the oldest in the Capital of Tunisia and covers an area of 5,000 square metres (1.2 acres) with nine entrances[1]. It has 160 authentic columns brought originally from ...
Gladiator
We bus it to El Jem from Sousse. At first am not really sure if we're dropped off in the right town as there's no signage, and I'm not sure if the bus driver understood Brian's broken French. However, I assume this is the place, and it is. Quick walk ...
Kairouan
... by that I 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 ...
Train South to Sousse
Despite being woken early, the morning prayer outside our hotel room in the mdina is ...
No camels.
It's my birthday today. We had planned on being further south. I wanted a camel ride for my birthday, but there's just not enough time. Definitely will have to come back again to see the ...
Last Day in Tunis
... spend an hour searching for somewhere, anywhere that serves crepes. But it's Friday, and no one seems to make crepes on Friday. Tunisia is a beautiful country. Can't wait to come back. I don't want to leave, but unlucky us, we are stuck at the ...
Tunis: WWII memorial
... listing the names of the soldiers known to have fallen in the war in North Africa, which included battles fought in Morocco and Tunisia. The focal point, of course, is the cemetery. If you have ever visited a U.S. WWII cemetery abroad, you ...
Jerba: Dirt and shrubs
For three nights we stayed in Jerba, a small island off the northeast coast of Tunisia. Jerba is a tourist-populated resort island with flat, dirt-laden terrain pocked by cacti and shrubs. Apparently, the beaches are popular with the Euros during ...
To Salaambo Station and Sidi Bou Said
... at Tam Tam, a truly French tourist restaurant. Crepes and Nicois Salad. At 13dr this is our most expensive meal yet in Tunisia, and that's still cheap. Completely exhausted, we must stand on the train as we are traveling 2nd class back to Tunis. Boys ...
TUNISIA
... dunes that you can climb by camel or by foot or take an excursion into the desert (much more interesting as I did). In Tunisia there are sea, desert and mountains oaziz. I visited some little nice mountain oaziz (Tamerza) where you can see some ...
Tunis: A hint of Westernness
... (more ruins) and to Sidi Ben Said (quaint tourist town). Now we are in Jerba, an island off the northwest coast of Tunisia. Jerba is a tourist resort island, and pretty much the only things to do here are sit by the pool or beach and go to ...
Operation desert date
... of the next 10 days on the boat with the folks, you have suffered enough. For reading this far you should be awarded a noble prize for literature. As they say in Tunisia hamdoullah Thank God, or was it watch out for the hairy Australian Love ...
Jul 01, 2009
Les premières journées.
Cette mer, la Méditerranée, qui elle seule connaît la formule magique de redonner la joie de vivre à ceux qui l'ont perdu, de lisser la peau, de rendre les dents blanches. C'est l'endroit ou j'ai senti que le sable gomme mon âme et les vagues ...
