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Pro
Lovely medina with impressive Ribat & Mosque
Con
Newer part of town can be dirty and uninteresting
In a nutshell
well worth considering tunisia is a lovely country and the people are friendly
20 Reviews Sousse has a very long history. It was a Phoenician outpost (Hadrumetum), a free Roman city (Byzacium), a vandal town (Hunericopolis) and finally the Byzantine city of Justiniana or Justinianopolis. Nothing of these settlements remains, for in the early years of the Hegira, Justinianopolis was...
13 Reviews The Sousse Ribat is one of a few similar buidings built along the coast to protect Moslem lands from Christian invasion. It was built at the end of the 7th century, work started in AD 787 and was completed in AD 821. A watch tower was added by Emir Ziyadet Allah I of the Aghlabid dynasty in 821. The...
12 Reviews The walk through alleyways (often the wrong ones), can be almost as amazing as this house itself. You are breaking away from the soukkes and the tourist trail, surrounded by narrow alleys of homes and children palying in the road, tormenting stray cats. This house is a palace in the madness. The...
8 Reviews Sailing out of the harbour in a catamaran feels good. For the first 20 minutes or so, the engine is running, and then the sail is hoisted and it's amazing. The two guys running the show were friendly and you felt safe on the boat. No life-jackets, but this is Tunisia. There were four of us, and we...
5 Reviews Kalaout el-Koubba is a building that was built in the 11th or 12th century according to Fatimid architectural style. While its original function is not known, its current function is much clearer: to showcase the everyday life of Tunisians under Ottoman rule. Kalaout el-Koubba's most recognizable...
5 Reviews The Mosque is built using large stone blocks, some of these blocks were taken from the Roman baths at Carthage which is one of the reasons the baths are not better preserved. It has towers on the north-east and south-east corners and was built to resemble a fortress. It was founded in 851 by...
5 Reviews The Kasbah was built in 859 AD on the site of an earlier Byzantine fortress. Its 30m/100ft high Khalef el Fata tower, named after its builder, is one of the oldest towers in the whole of North Africa. Its topmost platform is 50m/165ft above that of the Ribat. Accordingly the Kasbah took over the...
5 Reviews Sousse's main beach stretches for many kilometres to the north of the Medina. It was named after a local Muslim holy man and features some good sand. As it was mid winter when I was there, it wasn't being used as it was cold with a strong wind blowing off the sea but I expect it's heaving during the...
3 Reviews The Catacombs contain 240 galleries with 15,000 graves spread over 5km. Only 40 metres of the tombs can be visited by the public. They were used between the 2nd and 4th centuries AD. Three of the four tombs have been excavated with inscriptions and funeral furnishings being kept at the Sousse...
2 Reviews Though history Sousse has come under the rule of 5 major cultures. Each of those cultures gave a new or modified name to the town. Each of those names may appear in various forms. Enjoy downtown with old Medina, surrounded by its city walls and fortifications, and modern streets.
2 Reviews Where? Inside the medina, on the corner between rue Tazerka and rue Dar Abid What? A splendid 17th century minaret in stone with tile decorations on the top two tiers. This octagonal Ottoman minaret can, unfortunately, only be viewed from the outside if you are a non-Muslim.
8 Reviews and 322 Opinions We returned 17/7/2011 our kids aged both 8 years thought it was best kids club ever lots for them to...
1 Review and 321 Opinions Honestly? We didn't stay at the Mouradi. Why am I writing a tip about it, then? There was a bit of...
KAISER HOTEL: Good food in a friendly atmosphere
BarryBraund Says: The Kaiser Hotel has mixed reviews, as does Sousse itself, so in the end it's down to you to judge for yourself. It was convenient to eat here, and in a party of four people, the food was always freshly prepared and cooked well. We ate her 4 or 5 times. The menu isn't...
Bora Bora: Having a ball at Bora Bora
Kiriel Says: Bora Bora is a quite extraordinary place. An outdoor nightclub, tucked in among trees, this club hires some of the most famous DJs in the world, which was a bit of a surprise to me... not something I expected from a town of less than 200,000 people. The club is centred...
alyf1961 Says: The noddy train runs from Port El Kantaqui. To find the station is quite easy. From the marina walk towards the main square, walk down the right hand side of the fountain and go between a restaurant and a gift shop. The station is at the other side of the car park. During...
Darkswede Says: In addition to buses you can always take a Louage.white taxi cars that go between two places or city´s from special louage stations and are shared with others, there are no time tables, the car leavs when it is full or if you pay for the empty seats. Warning, many louage...
kris-t Says: There are some rug stores here with a wide variety of handmade rugs.Rugs are available in myriad densities, typically ranging from up to 30 knots per inch (very coarse) to 290 knots per inch (very fine). Finely knotted or finely woven rugs are usually the most desirable. Are...
Dizzyhead Says: When I was in a bar close to the beach in Sousse, I sat in a openbar and many people were there. But I noticed that there were many older men, foreign men and younger Tunisian men. I did not pay so much attention to that, because there were also other kind of people around,...
Andrew_W_K Says: Just after you get out of a taxi at the Medina someone approaches and says "Hi, don't you recognise me? I'm the chef/waiter/security guard/whatever from your hotel" you stop and think and they say "Yes, I saw you last night at the whatever hotel" and you start to believe...
Getting around buy train and bus
Darkswede Says: Feel like doing a trip around Tunisia on your own? Well why not take the train to Julius Cesars Amfi theater in El Jem, or take the train or louage to the capital Tunis and visit its huge Medina, or the worlds biggest mosaic collection at the Bardo Museum or Concore Carthage...
Sousse: nice place, friendly people.
phayao Says: I won't say "I love Tunis" as it has a long way to go if they wish to be a permanent destination for international tourism, but it is a country well worth the visit.The main attractions: warm weather, friendly people, reasonable good tourist infrastructure, Punic ruins,...
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Sousse is situated on the east coast of Tunisia, some 140km from the capital Tunis. A week here in Sousse, Tunisia's 3rd largest city was a most enjoyable break from the damp, rain and snow of...
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Sousse - Tourist capital of Tunisia
Sousse is the third largest city in Tunisia helped by its location on the coast at the southern end of the Gulf of Hammamet where it enjoys fine long sandy beaches. These beaches provide the perfect...
Sousse is a wonderful city and its got a lot more to see and do than most people realize, for starters its Tunisia's third largest city and the hotels are some of the best to be found anywhere on the...
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