Hotel El Oumara Tunis
42 Bis, Rue Ali Dargouth Tunis, 1000, Tunisia
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Woke up this morning and found myself dead...
... toney as the place was, drinks were still not that expensive which I've found to be the case for many bars, cafes and restaurants so far in Tunisia. Just because a place looks chi-chi it doesn't mean the prices will be that high...gotta like that. We only spent about an hour at the bar which was enough for me..not really my type of place. Then back to Sarine's to enjoy our wine and beer...woke up the next morning feeling fine!
Later in the day I walked ...
Tunis Tunisia
... site was essential for Mediterranean traffic control. The city was eventually rebuilt though the first few attempts were stalled by the physical conditions of the destruction and the persistent superstitions. Finally, in 49 BC, Julius Caesar organized a successful reconstruction, named Julia Carthago. In 44 BC, Brutus and his pals enacted their own little event in the forum to ensure that Caesar was not around to ...
Speed Racer: Aka A Day In Dougga
... 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 best preserved Roman towns in Africa with some buildings still containing their original mosaic floors. The amphitheater and temple are in amazing shape and give you a real insight into the power that the Romans felt were present in nature and their gods. I could not help but think that they spent a lot of time and energy to ...
Into Africa
... woman in a headscarf kept pushing everybody out of the way, which caused her glamourous, long-nailed daughter to yell at her in Arabic and French. The guy from Paris and I kept smiling each other. "we're leaving the same way we arrived," he commented, remarking on the general chaos. We finally got going, and he waited for me to catch up and we walked through to security together. Our bags were put through an x-Ray machine and our passports were checked. Just as we were about ...
Tunis, Tunisia
... be taken over by the Arabs and it was then that the small town of Tunis that had survived on the outskirts of Carthage began to develop and later would become an economic power of its own.
We arrived in Tunis after two days sailing from Palermo. We arrived in the Port of La Goulette which is the main port for the city of Tunis. It was a cool day with dark clouds still overhead. We have started to move south on the cruise but we are still in the cool damp weather ...


