Le Diplomat Hotel Tunis

... mer et du bien-être.









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... 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 ...

... of the Prophet Mohammad), and the Great Mosque which is one of the oldest (and largest) places of prayer in the Islamic world, and the fourth most important pilgrimage destination after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem. So we missed the noon deadline to enter the courtyard and peer into the Mosque itself, but now the Imam is giving the Friday sermon and the doors are wide open, and even though we cannot take photos we are ...

... 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.

... which thankfully did decide to stop. The Arabic announcement did nothing to ease our confusion either! Anyway, Tunisian trains, highly recommended at their bargain prices, and doing it this way gave us far more flexibility and the opportunity to investigate Tunis as we wished. First port of call was the Place de l ...

... them there. About a minute later my question was answered as a battered tram that would have been right at home in postwar Berlin stopped and the guard motioned me to it and said again, "homina, homina, homina." Everyone else on the platform somehow instinctively knew this was the train so away we went one whole stop to the TGM. When this tram made it to the end of the line about two minutes later I felt like I was flushed out of it with the ...

this was one weekend i was not gonna forget! started off on fri night in a gayfest 06 orgy, including drugs, alcohol and a whole lotta hairy ass! i woke in a pool of beans and seamen in the back alley of McDonalds whilst watchin 8 midgets spank a horse...i thought i also saw my good friend Colbourne spreading peanut butter on his nipples and scrotum whilst a himalayan goat waited patiently on a leash, must have been a dream i think. decided to head home ...

... presidents was taking place in the city of Tunis - hence the extreme security. Everywhere we went were armed police. Entering the city we the ride up Ave Habib Bourguiba is quite dramatic. Big fountains, big road, big buildings and big of money but thankfully little traffic. This is the modern showpiece of Tunis and the site of many of the international hotels. With ...