Ile de Jerba Favorites

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Favorite thing: The dinar was introduced in 1960 and it is subdivided into 1000 millimes. There are 4 banknotes and 8 coins in circulation, although the small ones aren’t that common.
1 EURO = 1.7796434 Dinar
1 Dollar = 1.25823204186 Dinar

Favorite thing: You can buy this map for 1 Dinar in practically any shopping area on the island, but I've included it here as well for anyone considering a vacation on Djerba. One side has the tourist zone, and the other has an overall map of the island (and I made that the inset).

You maybe can't read it on VT, but if you copy the image and then zoom in with your own photo viewer, you can probably make out the names of the hotels.

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Favorite thing: We saw many beautiful mosques in Jerba, many of which seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, with no apparent community in the vicinity. One such mosque was the Fadloune Mosque, about 2km outside Midoun. We arrived at sunset and the view of the light falling on the whitewashed walls of the mosque was memorable.

I really liked the architecture of the Jerban mosques. They were less decorated than those we saw in other parts of Tunisia, yet the clean white walls and coloured doors that most mosques had very pretty.

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Favorite thing: Zone Touristique is a large complex situated on the eastern side of the island. It is an area where all the hotels for the foreign tourist are located, many of them still in construction. Besides hotels, there are plenty of restaurants, amuement park, golf court, besh resorts, discoteques and casinos here, along with many other facilities.

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Favorite thing: The main square of Houmt Souk is a very bussy place, no metter if day or night it is always crowded with the people. There is a number of cafe-bars, all over the square, where the locals spend most of their time in chatting, smoking nargilas and sipping hot green tea or cold unalcoholic drinks. The arhitecture around the square is fascinating and very beautiful. All the houses are coloured in white, while the windows and the doors in very characteristic blue colour which dominates all over the country.

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Favorite thing: Caravanserai is old Arabic name for lodging or shelter. It is a littlebit different then the hotels because there is no hall and restaurant in caravanserai. The inneryard of caravanserai has the same construction we can find in the christian cloisters.
Most of the caravanserais on Djerba are turned into the hotels nowadays, offering fascinating and very attractive accomodations. It is pitty that the tourist agents, at least those from Croatia, do not offer this typfe of accomodation which looks extremely attractive and is very cheap.

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Favorite thing: According to the official data, great majority of the local inhabitans are of muslim religion. Most of the western people are suspicious towards the muslims, considering all of them fundamentalists or at least intollerant towards the other religions. In last two years, I have visited entire country of Tunisia and found them very tollerant and openmined towards the others. Morover, Tunisian muslims, as well as the others here, are very friendly towards the westerns.

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Favorite thing: There exist an catholic church in Houmt Souk, located right in the heart of the old core of the town. Unfortunately, I couldn't seen its interiors because the church was closed every time I was visiting the town. There exist a catholic minority on the island, living side by side to Jewish community and the muslim majority. As far as I could see and noticed it, there is a high standard of tollerance in between various religious groups and races here on island of Djerba.