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Tunisia have local carpet making co-op's where local women make carpets. The carpets can take a year to hand make and the patterns are all done from thier minds, they do not have a patern to go by. This makes each carpet unique. The carpets are really good value considering the time, effort and quality that had gone into them.
It's like a wall. A wall of intense heat. A wall which prevents me from moving. For a moment I thought it was the old locomotive generating heat. Then the train slowly moves on, the heat is as fierce as ever. I start walking. Is this 40 degrees C. or perhaps 50?'As soon as you leave the coastal plain temperatures can rise to 40 degrees C. and higher' I had read in my travel guide.The sun shines mercilessly. I can feel an intense heat on my head, on my arms. There is no shade. At this hot hour of the day the streets are empty, the shops are closed. The locals are home, resting in their walled-in houses. A single tourist winds wearily towards the amphitheatre. The Roman amphitheatre in EL JEM is large and beautifully restored. In the vaults you can see the cages for the lions and the gladiators' rooms. From several levels you can look down into the arena. In the museum you can admire...
Camels are still a big part of every day life in Tunisia.They are still being used for many purposes and the camel markets are always a good place to check out the local scene for some exotic flavour.
There are many cafes all over the villages and cities of Tunisia, where you can smoke shisha pipes and enjoy a local-style coffee, though they are mostly for men only. We were warned that women could sit at cafes, but it would be rather frowned upon.
Pharmacies in Tunisia have strange operating hours. Most are open for a few hours in the morning, close for most of the afternoon, and then reopen from about four-ish, until the evening. The staff in most pharmacies we went to spoke English, which helped. Also, medicines are available without prescription.
It was a hot day in Yasmine Hammamet. The beach was quite crowded with white skins and tiny bikinis of foreigners from places where the sun doesn’t shine all that much. To the beach arrived two women dressed head to toe with local clothing and a child. The women bathed keeping all the clothes, dried at the sun and left. Women in Tunisia are generally respected, have liberty and are amongst the most previleged in Northern Europe. But at the same time there are still many people living in traditional ways especially in the south and in the interior. There are many women that are ghosts in white, dressing with the long, large dresses that hide their forms and their faces from the looks of foreigners. Below this dresses who knows what hides?To the resorts of the coast many tunisian women come to have fun. Many of them dressing and having the liberties of any western woman. But you can...
I hate this rabit! Or is it a mouse, an alien from another planet? Every time i see it gives me the creeps! And it is everywhere in Tunis and at the entrance of every city, sometimes alone, sometimes with its wife and children. I asked to my colleague about this rabit. She explained me that it is an animal called “fnak” (in Arabic) that lives in the south of the country, in the desert. It is very clean as when it sees some rubbish it buries it in the sand. So this animal is a kind of cleanliness symbol and Tunisians chose it to introduce the respect for the environment culture in the country. They could choose a nicer symbol but now that I know the whole story it makes sense for me. Oh, by the way, its name is Labib!
Last Sunday (02nov) strangely I decided to stay in Tunis. By that time there was la Foire de l’Artisanat (Crafts Fairy) in Le Kram and a friend of mine proposed me to go there to take a look and, maybe, buy something for our appartments. When we arrived to the entrance and I saw families and families (mum, dad, children, grandma, auncle…) going inside I said to myself that, maybe, that was not a good idea (I wanted to scape!). But I could’nt do this to my friend (it was not polite) and I stayed. And…what a freaky experience!! Everything was sooo quich… or there is a better description, my friend’s one: “un concentrato di cattivo gusto” (a concentration of bad taste). So as soon as she was kidnapped (well, she looked happy) by a carpet seller I enjoyed wandering along that corridors full of all kind of stands selling all kind of strange stuff (furniture, ceramics, carpets, paintings,...
AAAhhhh! Smoking chicha is one of the pleasures of Tunisia! Chicha, Narguileh, Hookah. . . all these words (depending on the region or country where we are) refer to the waterpipe used to smoke a tobacco called "tumbak" which is a special tobacco, different from our "normal tobacco". You can find a chicha in almost all the tunisian houses and caffes maures. If you are a woman and dont have tunisian friends to invite you to smoke chicha its better to look for a touristic place: "arab people have their traditions!"Take your time while smoking chicha. . . its a moment for relax! And please. . . dont use the coal of the chicha to light your cigarrette. . . its very impolite :-)))Smoking chicha costs between 1,5-3 DT (in a touristic place) depending on the flavour
Ramadan nights are great in Tunisia! During the day muslims cannot eat, drink, … so nights are their moment. This is what happens:-At sunset the muezzin calls to prayer and people start eating and drinking. Absolut silence, there is no one on the streets-After dark the muezzin calls again to prayer. This is the most important moment of the day and all the people go to the mosque (men enter the mosque through the main façades, women through the lateral doors) to read the Quran. If you are near a mosque its easy to listen to the sheikh reading the Quran, and its very beautiful-After the prayer life comes again on the streets and squares. All the cafés, shops and stalls are opened, men drink tea, smoke chicha, play cards… children play foot on the squares, women talk to their neighbours, bakers sell their best biscuits…and all this until 2-3 in the morning. Ramadan nights in the Medina are...
The Residence Tunis Tunis
1 Review and 133 Opinions The Residence is right on the beach near Carthage, with it's own stretch of beach offering various...
Marhaba Tour Khalef Sousse
8 Reviews and 236 Opinions We returned 17/7/2011 our kids aged both 8 years thought it was best kids club ever lots for them to...
Park Inn Ile de Jerba
3 Reviews and 220 Opinions One of the oldest hotels in Djerba was the first one over the lagoon for years, which could be seen...
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Q: I'm planning to visit Tunisia in November, can anyone suggest a good budget hostels in Tunis, Kairouan and Sousse? I was...
A: The YHA in the souk in Tunis is pretty cool. The problem is getting there. During the day, the souk is packed making it difficult to manage with your backpack. At night,...
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