Tunisia Palace Hotel

... (few of which we were allowed in to visit), a Berber cave-home built into the mountains, souks, medinas and you name it. Tunisia was really wonderful although, while it is a secular Muslim country, it is still outwardly very male dominated. We were also ...

... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   We spent the last three nights of our tour at the L'Orient Palace Hotel in Sousse.  Our tour included an optional tour to Kairouan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for a visit to the Great Mosque, the oldest in ...

Just an opportunity to post more pics. This town is 30km from the border, nothing special. You'll be glad to know, we have booked into a nice hotel tonight, at Petra's order. Tomorrow Libya!!! ...

I am in Tunis now. After waiting about 3 hours at the Cairo airport, I flew into the capital city of Tunisia, Tunis. Tunis Air isn't that great of an airline. I was completely bored out of my mind since they had no in-air entertainment. The airplane food ...

... through the constuction section with statues lying around the floor amongst the cigaret buts and burlap wrap and the living rooms of the palace. It is going to take some getting use to that all the little 'favors' are all precursors to asking for a ...

... if it was acquired from the Palace at Versailles.  They served us Asida and refreshments and discussing the history of Tunisia and its relatively recent independence from France.  This loving and generous family has hosted our daughter in their ...

... of a close call. Today's ruin quotient well and truly met, it was time to move on up the tram line to "Tunisia's Prettiest Village", Sidi-Bou-Said. Whoever said that didn't bank on the rain! No seriously, it was beautiful, mainly due to ...

Josefina, Dad, Joss and I on a four night jaunt to Tunisia.  Josefina had already been there, but she was kind enough to go again, as it is somewhere I had wanted to go since 2000, where I had to cancel my planned holiday.  That was going to be ...

... built to honor Americans who gave their lives fighting in North Africa during World War II. Perhaps one of the most famous museums of Tunisia is the Bardo Museum located in the capital, Tunis.  It is often referred to as "Africa's Louvre" and at one ...

... 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 ...

... ages ago.  Donny Brasco, Garys bud from NATS came in to see us, more pubs.  Not having any problems drying out in Tunisia with the Muslem thing going on.  You can buy booze in the mid to expensive restaurants but we are on a budget.  ...