Zitouna Mosque, Tunis

Tunis

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September 6th 2006
Today we arrived in Tunis early morning, after a long flight from Doha, Qatar. Our first funny experience was getting our Tourist Visa in Tunis Airport. As you can't get Tunisian Dinar anywhere but Tunisia, and we had to pay for the Visa with Dinar, Iain had to wangle his way through customs and imigration without his passport, in order to get to an ATM to get Tunisian Dinar to pay for the Visa. T ... read more

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Following independence from France in 1956, President Habib BOURGUIBA established a strict one-party state. He dominated the country for 31 years, repressing Islamic fundamentalism and establishing rights for women unmatched by any other Arab nation.... ... read more