Djerba Resort

... well, and retracing some of our steps from the first days of our trip. The hotels we stayed in were first rate resort hotels (except for a wonderful businessman's hotel in the heart of the new town in Tunis) and the Tunisian food was delicious. ...

... who had hosted me as an exchange student for 4 months back in 1970; followed by 6 days in Barcelona and a nearby beach resort town on the Mediterranean. After that, I embarked on a 9-day tour of Tunisia in North Africa. Currently Tunisia enjoys one of the ...

We stayed at a beautiful hotel/resort in Djerba along the beach where riders, at dusk and dawn, appeared with their horses.  Really a beautiful setting.  In Djerba we visited a functioning synagogue as well as the medina area of Houmt Souk, ...

... " Territory   Dear Readers:   We're grateful to leave Sfax this morning, looking forward to reaching our beach resort on the island of Djerba. Our first planned stop is at the maritime oasis of Gabes, but along the way we pass a line of ...

... weather was a bit warmer! We visited the oldest Synagogue in Africa, very interesting!! Besides that, the island is mainly a holiday resort for Europeans in the summer, so we only spent two days there. Next stop was Tatatouine, to visit the old fortified ...

... push on to Hammamet just down the road, which is marginally less crap. Our hotel is a communist inspired concrete bungalow beach resort, which we are assured is jam packed in July and August with unfortunate European kids that invoked the wrath of Santa ...

... to Sidi Ben Said (quaint tourist town).  Now we are in Jerba, an island off the northwest coast of Tunisia.  Jerba is a tourist resort island, and pretty much the only things to do here are sit by the pool or beach and go to the spa.  It is ...