Ile de Jerba Warnings and Dangers

I think you can buy wildlife products all over Djerba, but I can only speak for Midoun.
Tortoises, scorpions, birds, snakes and so on are for sale in many souvenir shops. Remember it is NOT OK and most of time illegal to buy them as a souvenir. Check-out CITES You will need certificates en follow international standards before buying them.

If you don't want to go home with Tunisian Dinars, pay attention to this one!

In order to exchange your extra Dinars for Euros or Dollars or whatever, you must have ATM receipts showing how you came about getting those Dinars. You turn those in at the airport at the currency exchange and the guy will give you the exchange. Otherwise, good luck spending those Dinars at home!

As in every touristic country u're travelling in, locals can be boring always trying to sell you something.
But, as you all know, most of them live on tourism so let them know you're not interested whith a:"non, choukrane" that means "no thank's".
In small cities such as Houmt Souk, beware of the so sympathetic merchant saying:remember me? We saw at the hotel! offering you a wonderfull mint tea and persuading you to buy a wonderfull handmade carpet.They're wonderfull, but cost even more than if u buy the same in France.

Be aware of what you are eating even in 3 star hotels. The food is really very tasty, but your stomach maybe is not used to it :) Also do not lay on the beach even half a day as African sun is very strong! I was in Ile de Jerba in April for one week. It didn't seem very hot as it was quite windy. I even did not try to get a suntan, but during that week I got so brown as I have never been in my life! When I came home some people did not recognise me :) It was fine, but 3 days of my stay in Jerba I was sick, had fever. I do not know if it was from the food or from the sun...

Change money in your hotel. The banks in Houmt Souq (which is the place with most banks) are often crowded, and it can take some time to change money.
The exchange rate is set by the Central Bank and is the same at all changing places.

During my stay on Djerba I got 156 Tunisian Dinars for 100 € .

In Tunesia, it is permitted to take picture of about everything you will see. The exceptions are:
- all people wearing a uniform (Policemen, Garde National, Military)
- all official, goverment and military buildings. To simplify for the tourists (and the contriolling policemen) it is changed to All buildings that have the Tunesian Flag. This includes in this interpretation schools as well...
I claim no copyright for the picture that goes with this tip ;-)