A Good Trip Report Someone made Just back from a week in Tunisia, hopefully our experiences may be of use to future travellers... SousseHotel el Faracha - convenient for train station, as well as Medina and the new town. Pretty basic but clean and correct value for money. Very noisy on Friday and Saturday nights (there was a disco nearby) but quiet during the week. Medina - very pleasant strolling through the streets. Can recommend Cafe Seles for fresh fruit juice (they don't add water so no stomach bugs here!), and the view from the Ribat tower. A walk around the inside of the medina wall is a great way to start, just beware the 'red light district' in the North East corner!New Town - Planet Food decent place to eat, good portions and value. Walls plastered in movie star pics so very American feel. Beach - rather dirty and littered, road runs alongside it so not very peaceful - Hostel in Sousse last right turn off beach road to northSousseAve Teieb Mhiri Plage Boujaafa4000 Sousse Tunisia MatmataInteresting to see the troglodite dwellings but the whole place is very commercial and everyone assumes you are huge star wars fans (having never seen the film this didn't mean much to me). Visit early or late to avoid the coach loads. Douz Not much to see in the town, which is nothing special, but the place to be for a camel ride or overnight trip into the desert. The camels seemed more comfortable than in Morocco for some reason - think it was because you sit further back rather than on top of the hump. Hotel Mehari a pleasantly designed hotel if you have to stay in a 'resort', decent food and nice heated pool. Chott el JeridVery impressive at sunrise. Make sure you stop to take photos nearer the Douz end, otherwise you'll end up with lots of people in your pics as you look at the sun rise!

TozeurNicer than Douz, more character and impressive archiecture on many of the buildings. Visit one of the date palm oasis areas, interesting to learn about the process, its a lot more involved than you'd think. ChebikaWonderful photo opportunities here at this mountain oasis. You can walk up and around the gorge and see the ruined village (devastated in the '69 floods). Just avoid the masses of tour groups from mid morning - afternoon. It becomes like a cattle market and you end up queueing to get around the gorge. Djerba Erriadh - nice quiet little village inthe centre of the island, lovely hotel Dar Dhiafa - more like Moroccan riads, it is an oasis of tranquility amist the dust and scruffyness of the country. Very good service, friendly staff, gorgeous rooms, though the food quality wasn't always matching the prices. The synagoge is worth a look - very ornate. Houmt Souk - nice enough town, good fort and white and blue design on all the buildings, but disappointed in LPs comparison with a Greek fishing village - didn't quite live up to those expectations. Taxis are cheap though. About TD8 from Erriadh to the airport. AirportsJust a note about internal flights - some (ie the Djerba one with Sevenair) had departure desks at the opposite end of the airport to all the other departure desks (it was actually in arrivals) which made it very confusing to find and there were no signs whatsoever. It was the same in Djerba and Tunis. Taxis - Most try to charge for any bagge you have (it does actually say inside the cab that baggage should be charged for) but its easy to negotiate out of this. Most yellow cabs have meters but many don't use them so make sure you negotiate a price before departing if this is the case. Interesting Travel Blog .. this guy is a bit over positive for me : joestrippin.blogspot.com ... it's like he's paid by the Tunisia tourist board - some sometimes you might be disappointed that the reality is not as good - but his presentation does look great