Travel Planning
Best Time to Visit Tunisia
Spring and autumn suit the ruins, summer suits the coast, and winter is when Tunisia holds more than 300,000 waterbirds at Ichkeul.
Every Echoes of Africa guide and essay filed under Tunisia: entry rules, safety, money, transport, packing, food, culture, festivals and heritage.
Heritage
Medina of Tunis: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Founded in 698 AD and inscribed in 1979, some 700 historic monuments across 280 hectares, and a city that was once among the richest in the Arab world.
Heritage
Kairouan: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Founded in 670 AD, the oldest Arabo-Muslim base in the Maghreb and capital of Ifriqiya for five centuries. Its Great Mosque became the model.
Heritage
Dougga: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Probably the first capital of the Numidian kingdom, and called by UNESCO the best preserved Africo-Roman town in North Africa.
Heritage
Punic Town of Kerkuane: Visitor and Heritage Guide
The only known Punic city in the Mediterranean that Rome never built over. Abandoned in the third century BC and never reinhabited since.
Heritage
Carthage: Visitor and Heritage Guide
Founded from Tyre and inscribed in 1979, Carthage was the metropolis of Punic civilization in Africa before Rome rebuilt it as a capital.
Destination
Tunisia
Carthage, the free-standing amphitheater at El Jem, and a whole island inscribed for the way people settled it: ten sites on a coast sold as a beach.