Tunis
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Travel alert: Civil unrest has calmed in Tunisia, but keep in touch with the latest news and travel advisories.
As you move from the north into the south, the greenery dissipates and the landscape becomes unobstructed and parched.
Sousse is Tunisia’s liveliest town, full of the daily bustle of visitors, students and locals who fill the streets all day long.
Once you’ve passed the mesmerising landscape of the salt lake Chott el-Jerid, you start getting the glimpse of the enormous palmeraie that shields Tozeur.
Douz, an oasis at the edge of the Grand Erg Oriental, is best for its tours into the desert.
The walled city of Kairouan is one of Islam’s most holy cities, where praising God and selling carpets are the most revered of occupations.
Tabarka, a quiet coastal town with a tough old Genoese fort (closed to the public) backing a long curve of alluring white sand that stretches below, is locally known as ‘music town’, thanks to all the music festivals that take place here.
Northern Tunisia is like rural Italy from the 1970s – a rolling, green, magnificently lush region, little explored by foreign visitors.
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