Tunis Warnings Or Dangers

The most relevant and popular advice given to us, by everyone from fellow tourists, tour guides, even the locals, was: "Carry your bag on you stomach!". It's the only way to make sure no-one helps themselves to your belongings, especially when you're in the Medina of any of the cities.

Tunisia is an extremely safe country to visit, its people are nice, friendly and kind and it's unlike you face any harassment (except maybe from very tourist areas by the coast)
Our only problem was some (not all) taxi drivers (mainly outside airport and Medina) that they were asking almost double prices to drive to/from airport. But you can handle this easily. Ask a local the price or insist the driver to use the taxi meter. In any case taxis are plentiful and there's no need to take the one who's trying to make money out of you.
In other cities almost all taxi drivers had their taximeter on and we paid that fare

Take care within the Medina by the souvenir shops as they can be quite intimidating and get out into the less busy alleyways and witness the daily life that goes on. Also make sure you have a map with you as you will get lost! Most of the alleys and passageways have their names in both Arabic and French so it shouldn't be hard to find where you are and where you want to go but if you do get lost then simply ask someone or try and head back to the Zaytuna Mosque and get your bearings there.

Whilst having a quiet cup of coffee at the Cafe de Paris one evening, I was approched by 2 guys sitting at separate tables who started talking to me which the conversation then led to them wanting me to either buy them a coffee or a beer! The cheek! I told them that they would have to be my friends before they'll get anything out of me! Another guy walked with me back towards my hotel after I had eaten and again talked to me at great length and we had a good conversation but that again led to him wanting me to buy him a coffee. I'm sorry but where I'm from we simply just don't buy anybody a drink just like that and just because they ask for one!

Some of the ruins and antiquities one can visit are over 2000 years old and are not in the best of conditions anymore, since neither Phoenicians nor Romans can come back to fix them anymore. Hence it is a silly idea to climb onto the ruins and destroy them for others to see, or to get injured in the course of it.

Taxi drivers at Tunis airport try to rip off first time visitors to Tunis. As soon as we left the terminal we were approached by a driver who followed us around and kept trying to get us to travel into the city with him. There is a bus service from the airport though we couldn't find where it left from so we decided to take a taxi. However, I would advise against getting in with anyone who approaches you and tries to offer a fee.

His first offer was 15D each. This quickly became 15 for two, in the end we got it down to 10 for two. This was still way over the odds as we discovered later when taking a taxi back to the airport from Tunis - it cost only 5 on that occasion. Our taxi driver also tried to recommend us a hotel but we were having none of that and we asked him to leave us on Avenue Bourguiba, the main street in the Ville Nouvelle.

It is usual for older western females to be involved with younger men in return for gifts and presents. Be very wary as the young man will just be after your money and tell you lies to get you to part with most of your belongings. Forget about love some men make it a full time business. Do not fall for the little boy lost approach. i lost £500 plus an expensive watch to a man i had seen over four months in Hammamet.

everybody told me to take care of the food and water. I did, but at the end I had bacterias on my stomach. drink water in botles only, use it for wash your teeth too. the problem is the food, you never know how clean it was made, so good look. the rest of my frends doesn?t have any problem because they are stronger than me.