Hotel La Maison-Blanche Tunis

... C'est une très belle station touristique, avec ses hôtels de standing, ses night-clubs, ses bars, ses restaurants. Une nouvelle station ...

... carved in stone by their grieving families.

We enjoy one more buffet dinner tonight at our hotel before visiting the sidewalk cafes one last time to enjoy watching the nighttime crowds on the main avenue in front of the hotel. One other client and I check out of the hotel at midnight tonight, and head to the airport to catch our Lufthansa flight back to Frankfurt, departing at 2:30am!

We say goodbye to one tour member this morning. At 10am several of us go with the guide into the medina again. Two of us break away to visit a local hammam. This is an experience more like the one in Morocco, with hard skin scraping and back cracking.

I shop for birthday gifts for one of our tour members, then return to the hotel to get awards and tips organized. The party begins at six ...

... site we will not make it to Kairouan before the noon closing of the Grand Mosque because today is Friday, the Islamic day of congregational prayer. Knowing that takes the pressure off us and our driver, and we can relax and enjoy the Roman site at a leisurely pace.

Arriving in Kairouan we eat lunch, then visit the famous sites in the city including the Aghlabid Basins, built in 860, the tomb of Sidi Sahab (a ...

... lunch overlooking the bay of Tunis.

Our final stop is the Bardo Museum, which houses some of the most amazing mosaic works discovered throughout Tunisia as well as statuary and other art objects. After visiting the museum our guide walks through the medina of Tunis with us, showing us its many markets on our way back to the hotel. We dine at the hotel tonight, and prepare for an early start in the morning.

... a Berber family in a large house. The mom gave me a bracelet and we had tea etc.
Now we are in the capital of Tunis. It seems to be on the verge of Westernization in so,ways. Certain places posing as restaurants serve alcohol but we are glared at especially me as a women drinking beer- which they actually brew here. ????? The medina is just a trip back 2000 years ...

... that I only research all my options AFTER I've made my decision, consciouness being the wretched curse that it is. The trip is back on course anyway, ahead of schedule actually, so maybe Istanbul's back in the pic, or maybe farther south even, where it's warmer. Bottom line is that Malta's a world heritage site, and apparently cheap, so that's good enough right there. LP's website says Malta's the old world, so don't expect to book your ...

Voici quelques photos de Tunis...la capitale de la Tunisie ainsi que de Carthage, site de vestiges romains et puniques... Un peu d histoire: La civilisation ...

... mix between a taxi and a bus, it's a minivan which gets filled with people and when full, it leaves, it's convenient; cheap, fast...exactly what we needed. Wed Jul 30th - Left for Tozeur and the great Tunisian South on a Louage at 9AM. Not all tourists make it to the south of Tunisia but it's a shame...the south ended-up beeing the best part of Tunisia. Our Louage trip down to Tozeur took about 5hrs, we had loud arabic music playing in ...

... Orderly cobbles and the occasional cactus complete a dainty picture. It was a long day and since I hadn't had a beer for a long while I was glad to find The Source - a non-descript, hole in the wall bar that served up some remarkably palatable suds to soothe my sweaty, flustered brow. Had a couple and a chat to some locals, as well as ...