Tunisia Palace Golden Yasmin

... villes de Cap Bon. des sorties différentes sur tout le territoire de la Tunisie : les sorties culturel et découverte des monuments.
Tunis, Tunisia hammametagencev

... We break for coffee and a pit stop, enjoying the central square, Great Mosque and main shopping street where there is not one other tourist to be seen. This feels like an authentic look at Tunisian life that has not been dressed up with a medina full of tourist souvenirs.

The site of Dougga is most impressive. Your introduction to the site is a huge theatre, from which you can see ...

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 ...

... to peer in and get a sense of the size of the structure and how the people attend the event.

Our guide has mercifully spared us the daily shopping stops that others typically insert (unasked) into the schedule. Today we indulge him in one visit to a carpet shop. The merchants reveal their wares with gusto, but only a few are seriously interested in purchasing something. While they shop, most of us wander through ...

... 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.

... to you! Mum wanted to buy some spices so she stopped to browse and barter at one of the stalls. Meanwhile a couple of guys from the shop next door took the opportunity to spray me with several perfumes to get my attention. I made apathetic comments about their favourites and asked to try one entitled "Poison ...

... we both saw the same ruins but for about sixty cents I got to see the real city of Tunis they will never experience from their airconditioned bus insulated from the world. All this culture this morning has made me hungry and thirsty so it's time to find some bootleg food behind paper covered windows in a contraband restaurant. I don't think Allah will mind too much if I break Ramadan again for the millionth time this month. He's used to it by now for sure.

Saturday, May 24, 2008 Greater Tunis Area: Carthage & Sidi Bou Said Dear Readers: We start the day with a visit to the ruins of the Roman Baths at Carthage. Those people really knew how to pamper themselves. The facilities were absolutely enormous in their time, with gorgeous views out to the Gulf of Tunis. The Baths are at sea level. We explore them for a time, then drive up the hill to the ancient site of Carthage. A ...

... answers from him, who he was working for and why he wanted me dead. threw him in the back of an empty discovery, hotwired it and drove home. even after 4 hours of pouring bleach in his sliced eyelids he still pleaded innocent. shoved 67mg of kemphetamine and morphine in him and left interrogation for another day...but i had a funny feeling sims was behind it all. as i sold my car to sims (after a few adjustments to the brakes and battery) life sure ...

... We took a long walk to the Bardo Museum along a dusty road where the pavement just seemed to disappear. The museum is undeniably a work of art. Many of the mosaics and items are displayed in a fabulous and spacious setting. Many of the visitors were VIPs from the international summit and I got the impression there were some seriously big wigs admiring the exhibits with us ...