Gabes Travel Guide

 TheLongTone Says:  Yet again as much worth visiting for the building, a seventeenth-century madrasa built from the local pink stone, as for the exhibits, which are largely the usual collection of wedding dresses and jewellry displayed on awful dummies. However there is a good section devoted... 

 3 Reviews and 17 Opinions  I have been in the Hotel oasis for 6 weeks and after reading the previous review I thought it was my... 

 JLBG Says:  Hotel Chems is a nice hotel, which works mainly with package tours. It is a little on the outskirts of the town which is fine for tourist busses or for tourists with their car. However, it is a bit isolated and far from the city center. Chems means "the sun" and, yes it is... 

 JLBG Says:  The restaurant of the hotel Chems (Chems means "sun") serves good local dishes and they have a wide choice. They serve both international cuisine (Tunisian style, though !) and typical Tunisian cooking. They serve wine and other alcohols. No special dishes, but everything... 

 JLBG Says:  The road from Gabès to Gafsa is mainly lined by olive tree orchards. This is nearly the desert. Trees are wide apart in order to extend as much as possible their roots and catch as much as possible of the scarce water. Because of the dryness, weeds are scarce. 

 cadzand Says:  You'll certainly would buy them all for yourselves or as a gift. Plates, dishes, cups etc. are really very nice and cheap. They exist in various colours and patterns. Bargain, bargain and bargain again ! 

 JLBG Says:  Here is the painted wall at the entrance of a Gabès school. It has certainly been painted by the children themselves, with, most possibly, the help of their teachers. Nevertheless, the style says that the children have done the main part. 

 aliante1981 Says:   Travels to places like Tunisia involves a lot of fighting the heat, especially if you, like me (I am still surprised as to why I did that), go there right in the middle of the summer. Here’s a list of useful items to take:- Hats and other covering: Large brimmed hats that... 

 JLBG Says:  The nets are ready for fishing. The Gabes Gulf is never very deep and fishermen can put their nets even from small boats ; they do not need big nets, even these small one will hang from the surface of the see to the bottom and allow a good crop !