Category: Tunisia

Before catching the ferry from Tunis to Genoa, we spent a few days at the home of Lilia (Tunisian) and Matthias (German), 10 km…

Camp sites were few and far between except in the touristy areas around the Sahara. It was, however, perfectly acceptable (and safe) to stop…

Djerba was an island just off the coast of Tunisia - the inspiration for Homer’s ‘Land of the Lotus Eaters’.  We crossed onto the…

  The weather was warm but very windy and the air was thick with sand dust.  Brushwood fences along the roadside helped prevent the…

We spent next couple of weeks travelling from one oasis to another, staying at camp sites and moving on when the mood took us.…

There was a large oasis in the south of the country where they cultivated half a million date palms.  In spite of problems with…

We headed south towards Qibili, and drove across the Chott El Djerid, the largest salt pan in the Sahara (7,000 km2).  The lake was…

We settled for a few days at Camping El Hassan in Gafsa where we were able to carry out some overdue household chores, laundry,…

It was after 11 pm when we disembarked in Tunis.  Formalities took another two hours (maybe expedited by the €20 Tony slipped to our…