Journal

Over a thousand stone circles stand along a single river, built across more than fifteen centuries by a society we know mainly from its graves.

Spring and autumn suit the ruins, summer suits the coast, and winter is when Tunisia holds more than 300,000 waterbirds at Ichkeul.

UNESCO inscribed Djerba for a settlement pattern built by communities of different faiths, and names the synagogue and the churches among its parts.

Tunisia is Arab, Amazigh and Mediterranean at once, and its craft traditions are inscribed heritage rather than souvenir production.

Tunisia marks its year with harvests, a Saharan gathering at Douz and a fishing season in the Kerkennah Islands that UNESCO inscribed in 2020.

Tunisian cooking is the spiciest in the Maghreb and harissa is the reason. Both the paste and the couscous around it are inscribed by UNESCO.

Founded from Tyre and inscribed in 1979, Carthage was the metropolis of Punic civilization in Africa before Rome rebuilt it as a capital.

Probably the first capital of the Numidian kingdom, and called by UNESCO the best preserved Africo-Roman town in North Africa.

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.

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.

The only known Punic city in the Mediterranean that Rome never built over. Abandoned in the third century BC and never reinhabited since.

Spring and autumn are the comfortable seasons, but Morocco is really three climates at once, and the one you are packing for decides when to go.