http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Africa , Tunisia en-us Tue, 17 Nov 09 04:41:59 +0000 Tue, 17 Nov 09 04:41:59 +0000 For the first time in our trip we are seeing a culture that is significantly different than ours. Tunisia is where Nadine and her family lived for a year when she was 14 years old. Her and her sister Annie went to a French school in Sousse for a year. So Nadine is trying to go down memory lanehellipbut apparently Tunisia has undergone many changes in the 27 years since Nadine went to schoo http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Sousse/blog-453670.html A Louer Maison meubl dans un quartier bourgeois au centre ville de la Marsa la zone la plus recherch de TUNIS dans la banlieue nord de Tunis dans une rsidence scurise et calme proche de touts commerces et services. 120m de la Rsidence de l'Ambassade de France et 1km de la rsidence de l'ambassade de L'ANGLETERRE 300m de la plage. Pour une semaine un moins ou plus. Pour vos missions Va http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-451751.html Yesterday I went on a ride into the mountains of northern Israel they are called the Gollan heights and it is edged by the Jordan river which feeds the sea of Galilee or Tiberias as it is now known . This is the Garden of Israel and full of banana plantations and other market gardening ventures set up by the multinational company's.Is is a very fertile area and the mountains have a rugged beaut http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/blog-450010.html http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-442974.html 25th SeptemberThe picture below shows us getting out of the car on the ferry from Dover to Calais We spent the night at a BB just outside the town followed by breakfast with some hairy Belgium bikers. 26th SeptemberThen onto the autoroutes through France Belgium Luxembourg back to France and then Switzerland and a night stop with Amelrsquos friend Anila an Basal. Getting used to the concept http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Hammamet/blog-442058.html crire http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Sousse/blog-433051.html The next day on our cruise we were at see so like the other day at sea we just sat by the pool and relaxed.Our next port of call was Tunis Tunisia in Northern Africa. Since we had never been to Africa before and we weren't quite sure what to expect we decided to take an allday tour that included all the major sights of Tunis Carthage and Sidi Bou Said. We sure picked a good day to go to Afri http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/blog-428677.html Siguiendo con la cancin de este ao del colegio de Pedro ldquoitrsquos a small world after allrdquo es un mundo pequeo despus de todo podemos dar f que es cierto.Cuando era chico pas la mitad de mis fines de semana en la casa de mis abuelos en Longchamps. Muchos de esos fines de semana me iba a jugar con Martn y Andrs que son los hijos de Jorge e Iris la prima de mi pap. Se ve http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Djerba/blog-417923.html Golf in HammametGolf Citrus HammametThe first 45hole golf complex in Tunisia An international golf concept created around seven lakes in a 173hectare large area with olive trees and forests and located only a few minutes away from the bay of Hammamet.The course designed by Ronald Fream makes full use of the natural characteristics of the area with the slightly undulating ground of the olive gr http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Hammamet/blog-416818.html Hi I'm Giulia a early 21yearsold girl of Turin Italy. Last summer my boyfriend and I went to Tunisia for a summer holiday. We stayed there the second week of September 2008.We stayed in a all inclusive village of alpitur and we enjoyed ourselves so much The equipe of animation was so nice because they left the holidaymakers in peace without insist to join at their activities.The village http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Djerba/blog-409872.html After my brief stop over in Europe I headed to Tunisia to visit the ancient city of Carthage. According to Roman legend Carthage was founded by Queen Dido in 814BC. For those you up on your Virgil you may remember her as the queen who gave refuge to Aeneas and his men upon their recent escape following the fall of Troy. Aeneas and Dido fell in love but alas the god Mercury reminded Aeneas that h http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/blog-398404.html Our 10th and final day in Tunisia. What a great place and one which is full of contrasts. Time stopped here in the 19th century yet internet and mobile phones are everywhere. The people are very friendly and often there is a bit of English here and there. The country has a long Islamic heritage yet all is very relaxed. It is possible to even find a little alcohol. On arrival in Tunis it seemed we http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-380525.html As our roadtrip continued further south and again near the Algerian border the scenery became increasingly mountainous and dry. The towns of Mides and Tamerza are located in a particularly hilly area complete with some senic dry canyons. One of which was used for scenes in The English Patient. An abandoned walled mud town near Tamerza provided a scenic foreground for a palmeraie and rough mountai http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tataouine/blog-368401.html Having failed to receive our Iranian visas and recognizing that it was winter in most of the Middle East we did some serious rethinking of where to go from Bahrain. Originally we had planned to travel overland from Pakistan to Iran Turkey and from there to Syria Lebannon Jordan Egypt and across North Africa to Morocco.We also confirmed that overland travel in North Africa was going to be un http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-368387.html We have arrived at last..... http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Hammamet/blog-355836.html We went to Tunis with a very big aircraft that wasnrsquot even half full So the flight felt like forever. After a very long wait a wheelchair showed up for an old lady. We finally left the aircraft and took a scenic bus ride to the hotel. I had a Cape Town feeling driving there...At the hotel we soon learned that the people there arenrsquot the friendliest and if you cannot speak or under http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-355767.html I woke up around 830am and I took a shower. Celine and I went all over the medina. When we started out we were a little hungry and Celine introduced me to fruit cocktails. It is quite similar to a smoothie the one that we had was a made from banana and I think they put dates and crushed cashew and almond as well and they top it up with a few banana slices and honey. It tasted fantastic and it cos http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-351120.html Woke up around 9am I had not done any of my packing and my room was in an utter mess. I also had to go to the bank because I have been busy working double shifts to payback days my colleagues have been working for me.I had a cup of green tea which I had drunk a few days ago and the cup was still beside my bed and the green tea leaves were still there with mold growing inside.After having breakfas http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Tunis/blog-351010.html Driving in Tunisia is ... fun probably similar to racing but with a lot of moving targets We enjoyed Tunisia from the palmery of Tozer date havest time to the lost city of Tataouine where we got to live a few days with a familly who were busy picking up olives.Lessons learnt in Tunisia1. When driving in the middle of the night think twice before taking the dirt road it could become a sand d http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/blog-350206.html Quick escape to Tunisia and have just found out that we left snow and ice behind in England....spent the day on the beach yesterday with the sea crashing restlessly at our feet so can't say it was a mistake and great to be back in a country like this the azar ringing down the lanes and streets.... its very slow here very few internet cafes and hardly anyone gabbling into mobile phones littl http://www.travelblog.org/Africa/Tunisia/Hammamet/blog-339965.html