Amina Hotel Kairouan

Route De Tunis GP 2 Kairouan, Tunisia

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Kairouan-Another World Heritage Site

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... many of the two lane roads lend themselves to the exciting experience of passing trucks, donkey carts and sheep all while heading straight into clearly visible oncoming traffic. Casey asks if my life insurance is all paid up?

We arrive in Kairouan and are encouraged out of the Louage at the first stop but clearly not within sight of the city center. The young lad on the street explains that the city is only 200 meters from this stop. On a ...

Sfax, Sousse, Nabeul & Belly Dancers!

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... town of Sousse.

From Sousse we travelled west to Kairouan, a UNESCO World Heritage Center. Today, Kairouan is a rather provincial town, thought it was founded and developed in the 7th century. Today it is most known for its Great Mosque and is one of the principal holy cities of Islam.

We proceeded to Nabeul, a town noted for its pottery production, for a stop at a pottery center and ended up at the beautiful seaside resort town of Hammamet.
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Ancient Arab city

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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 & harbor for small ...

Fieldwork on a forgotten battle.

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... French, that I asked him for making all our next excursions and he agreed. All the followings we made were always with this men, although not with the same car. From the second day, he brought for us a very luxurious one. He always recommend us the best places to eat and, although we always invited him, he never accepted to lunch with us. Only one day wanted to take a coffee with us, in Mahdia, perhaps because it was not ...

Tunisia's Holy City

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... largely for the fact that it was taken in a hotel with one the most grandiose lobbys I've ever seen. It was so intricate that I wasn't really that surprised when we were told that it took 16 years to construct. In stark contrast to this, the swimming pool appeared in a state of disrepair, being filled by a large amount of rubbish rather than any water. ...

This hotel was formerly known as: Amina