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Holidays Tunisia  -  Travel information Republic of Tunisia.

Governorates in Tunisia : Beja, Ben Arous, Bizerte, Gabes, Gafsa, Jendouba, Kairouan, Kasserine, Kebili, L'Ariana, Le Kef, Mahdia, Medenine, Monastir, Nabeul, Sfax, Sidi Bou Zid, Siliana, Sousse, Tataouine, Tozeur, Tunis, Zaghouan.

Capital City of Tunisia : Tunis


car hire, holiday homes, hostels, hotels, ravel agencies, travel guides, transport / travelling to tunisia

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Car Rental Tunisia

 Holiday Autos  -   
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

 Sixt  -   
Pick-Up Station / Return Station : Monastir Airport, Tunis Airport / Carthage Airport and Tunis Downtown.

Holiday Homes & Apartments

 Casa Holidays 
 VacationVillas.net  -  Holiday homes and vacation rentals Tunisia
 MyVillarenters.com 

Hostels / Budget Accommodation

Somewhere2stay.com  -  Cheap Holiday Accommodation Tunisia
Hammamet, Mahdia, Port El Kantaoui, Skanes, Sousse, Yasmine Hammamet.

 
Hostelbookers.com is one of the worlds largest online booking services for hostels. All hostels you see here are offering realtime prices and availability.

 TFTHostels  -  Seach all hostels, book the cheapest
Hostels, Budget Hotels, Apartments, Guesthouses, B&B, and Campsites.
Hostel search engine. Search all Hostels, find the cheapest. Compare rates, reviews and recommendations. Check availability, specs and location. Book the hostel of your choice by visiting the hostel booking website.

Hotels Tunisia

 Hotels in Tunisia  -  Hotels in Şaqānis, Sousse, Hammamet, Houmt Souk

  -  Hotels Barraket es Sahel, Bekalta, Djerba and Gammarth

 
Hotels in Djerba, Hammamet, Tunis, Gafsa, Gammarth, Hammam Sousse, Kairouan, La Marsa, Mahdia, Monastir, Sfax, Sousse, Tabarka, Tatahouine, Tozeur and Zarzis.

    - discounted hotels
Quality resort hotels, unbeatable prices, up to date availability, instant confirmation.
Hotels in Tunis, Djerba, Hammamet, Yasmine, Mahdia, Port el Kantaoui, Skanes, Sousse

Travel Agents / Tour Operators / Tunisia Specialists

Kuoni Holidays 
Steeped in history, today Tunisia boasts some of the best beaches and hotels in the Mediterranean making it an ideal destination where you can explore its many sites whilst staying at one of the excellent hotels Kuoni has chosen.
Type of holidays : All inclusive, Beach holidays, Escorted tours, Family holidays, Golf & Spa.

Travelsphere  
Travelsphere is the UK's No. 1 operator of escorted holidays

Airtours Holidays  -  Holidays to Tunisia & Djerba

Cosmos 
Cosmos is UK's largest independent tour operator.

My Travel  -  Sun Holidays

Thomas Cook  -  Tunis

Cresta Holidays   
Cheap Breaks Tunisia [ Monastir ].

  -  Create your perfect trip  -  Flight, Hotel and Car



 Remembrance Travel

Travel Guides Tunisia / Related books

Tunisia (Rough Guide Travel Guides S.)  -  Peter Morris, Daniel Jacobs
The Rough Guide to Tunisia is the definitive guide to this fascinating North African country. The guide includes a full-colour 24-page introduction to Tunisia's highlights, from the mile-long beaches of the mediterranean coast to the fortified Kasbahs of the mountainous interior and the Saharan oases towns. The guide gives lively accounts of all the sights, from Roman remains and Islamic monuments to the ancient Medinas of Tunis, Sfax and Sousse. There is comprehensive coverage of the resorts - Hammamet, Sousse and Port el Kantaoui with details of their beaches and the best excursions to the surrounding mountains and deserts. For each city , town and village there are in-depth reviews of the best places to stay, eat, shop and haggle. The authors also provide authoritative background on the country's history, religious and social traditions, wildlife, architecture and its use as a location for films such as 'The Life of Brian' and 'Star Wars'.
Paperback 608 pages (March 3, 2005); Publisher: Rough Guides; Language: English; ISBN: 1843533960
Tunisia (Eyewitness Travel Guides) 
Your holiday starts here! From the hot springs of Hamman Mellegue to the lunar landscape of Matmata, discover it all with this essential guide to Tunisia. Explore the Roman ruins of Carthage with the unique 3D models, and use the street maps to find the best bazaars to pick up a bargain. Tips on where to enjoy the local cuisine will ensure you enjoy 1001 Arabian nights however long your stay.
Hardcover 352 pages (April 7, 2005); Publisher: Dorling Kindersley; Language: English; ISBN: 1405308699
Tunisia (Lonely Planet Country Guides S.)  -  Anthony Ham, Abigail Hole
Includes accommodation and restaurant listings for all budgets and tastes; useful information on getting around, including 4WD desert tours; the lowdown and what to buy and where, from birdcages to silver jewellery and carpets; special features on Tunisia's Roman, Berber and Islamic architecture; and language sections.
Paperback 288 pages (April 1, 2004); Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications; Language: English; ISBN: 1741041899
The Aeneid (Penguin Classics)  -  Virgil / David West (Translator)
Virgil's Aeneid, inspired by Homer and inspiration for Dante and Milton, is an immortal poem at the heart of Western life and culture. Virgil took as his hero Aeneas, legendary survivor of the fall of Troy and father of the Roman race, and in telling a story of dispossession and defeat, love and war, he portrayed human life in all its nobility and suffering.
Paperback 368 pages (March 27, 2003); Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd. Language: English; ISBN: 0140449329
Africa [ from the twelfth century ]
Francesco Petrarca, T.G. Bergin (Translator), A.S. Wilson (Translator)
Hardcover 288 pages (January 1978); Publisher: Yale University Press; ISBN: 0300020627
Salammbo A Romance of Ancient Carthage - Gustave Flaubert
1904. With an appendix containing notes of the controversy over the romance. Volume IV. Flaubert, a French novelist of the realist school, best-known for his story of Madame Bovary. Salammbo is among the first works of heroic fantasy. Flaubert's novel is a love story about Salammbo, daughter of the great Carthaginian general Hamilcar, and Matho, a Libyan mercenary, in the time of the fall of Carthage to the Roman Empire. The story is rife with tales of treachery and deceit, much of it spearheaded by the slave Spendius. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Paperback 308 pages (June 25, 2004); Publisher: Kessinger Publishing Co.; Language: English; ISBN: 1417929081

Transport / How do I travel to Tunisia

 Djerba/Zarzis International Airport  -  9 km from Houmet Souk
 Monastir Habib Bouguiba International Airport  -  7 km vfrom Monastir
 Tunis Carthage International Airport  -  8 km from Tunis

 

Freedom Flights  -  UK seat only operator - Flight tickets to Monastir [ May through October ]

  Opodo  -   
Flight tickets Tunisia, Flight tickets Tunis, Flight tickets Monastir.

 
Book cheap flights to Tunisia at ebookers and benefit from discounted airfares. View their latest offers and book your flights, accommodation, car hire and insurance online

 Tunis Air  -  Flights Tunisia

 Airline Tickets / Bargain Flights  -  Price comparison possible

 Maps International  -  Guides Tunisia  
Mapsinternational.co.uk is one of the largest map shops online.
 Online map Tunisia [ Uni Texas  -  Perry-Castañeda Library  -  Map Collection ]
Rough Guide Map Tunisia (Rough Guide Map S.) -  Daniel Jacobs
The Rough Guide Map Tunisia combines clear modern mapping and bang-up-to-date research and is the most comprehensive map to this fascinating North African country. The scale of 1:850,000 (1 inch: 12.8 miles) provides enough detail to include even the minor roads whilst being manageable for use in the car or whilst walking. The Rough Guide Map provides invaluable information for those exploring the country, from desert oases and ancient medinas to fascinating walled cities, with detail on everything from road numbers and petrol station locations to Islamic monuments and Roman remains.
Map 1 pages (August 25, 2005); Publisher: Rough Guides; Language: English; ISBN: 1843534878


Links 

 Travel Insurance  -  online travel and holiday insurance for UK and Irish residents

 Tunis  -  capital city Tunisia 

 Bizerte  -  spanish fortress
 Carthago  -  ruins
 Chott El Jerid = gigantic salt lake - see fata morgana's
 Djerba / Jerba -  capital city Houmt Souk
 Dougga
 Douz  -  entrance to the desert
Biedt een authentiek en onvervalst beeld van de woestijntradities, volkse kunst en gewoontes. Het dorp zelf, omgeven door zandduinen, is het vertrekpunt voor de safaries. Een uniek avontuur wacht op u...
 El-Djem  -  Roman amphitheater
 Gabes [ oasis ]
 Hammamet
 Hournt Souk  -  capital city island of Djerba
 Mahdia
 Matmata  -  cave dwellings - moon landscape
The Berber people first dug homes out of the ground over 1000 years ago in order to escape the midday heat. These Troglodyte communities formed craters beneath the earth and constructed tunnels between some of the courtyards to build an underground labyrinth. Hotel Sidi Driss, cantina in Star Wars, is still standing and visitors can sleep there for a night.
 Kairouan -  fourth holy city Arabian world
Founded in 670, Kairouan flourished under the Aghlabid dynasty in the 9th century. Despite the transfer of the political capital to Tunis in the 12th century, Kairouan remained the Maghreb's principal holy city. Its rich architectural heritage includes the Great Mosque, with its marble and porphyry columns, and the 9th-century Mosque of the Three Gates.
 Monastir 
Here Habib Bourguiba was born at the beginning of the last century.
 Nabeul  -  camel market
 Nefta  -  oasis
 Sbeitla  -  Christian churches from the 4th and 5th century
 Sfax
 Sidi Bou Saïd  -  Andalusian village
Beautifull white houses with bliue doors and windows.
 Sousse  -  medina with kashba
 Tozeur  -  palm gardens and plantations
 Utica
 Zaghouan  -  water temple

 Beurs van Tunis
 Central Bank of Tunesia
 Radio Tunis  -  Live web radio from Tunesia [ RealPlayer ]

Cuisine - Tunisian Foods / Recipes

 Tunisian Recipes

History of Tunisia

Independence: 20 March 1956 (from France)

At the beginning of recorded history, Tunisia was inhabited by Berber tribes. Its coast was settled by Phoenicians starting as early as the 10th Century B.C. In the 6th Century B.C., Carthage rose to power, but it was conquered by Rome [ 2nd Century B.C. ].

 Tunisia's History  -  Wikipedia
Classical Period, Middle Ages, Modern history, Tunisia since independence
The Punic Wars: Rome, Carthage and the Struggle for the Mediterranean 
Nigel Bagnall
The Punic Wars (264-146 BC) sprang from a mighty power struggle between two ancient civilizations - the trading empire of Carthage and the military confederation of Rome. Though this took place more than 2000 years ago, Nigel Bagnall argues that it has remarkable contemporary significance.
Paperback 358 pages (January 7, 1999); Publisher: Pimlico; Language: English; ISBN: 0712666087
 Habib Bourguiba - BBC - Bourguiba - Father of Tunesia

Music, Culture & Entertainment

Tunisian music is characterized by the diversity of its modes (Maqamat) and its variety of rhythms. Among the main forms of classical Tunisian music, there is the Nouba (oldest and most authentic form of Andalusian origin,) the Chghoul and the Bachraf (of Turkish origin.) The Arab Orient (mainly Egypt, Syria and Lebanon) has also had an influence on Tunisian music.
Among the best known Tunisian musicians, singers and composers are Khemais Tarnane, Raoul Journou, Saliha, Saleh Mehdi, Ali Riahi, Hedi Jouini and Fethia Khairi.

 Music of Tunisia [ Wikipedia ]

 Bardomuseum in Tunis - mosaics
 International Music Festival
 Unesco
Het Amphitheater van El Jem, Site van Carthago, Medina van Tunis, Ichkeul nationaal park, Punische Stad Kerkuane & Necropolis, Medina van Sousse, Kairouan, Dougga/Thugga

One Thousand and One Arabian Nights: One Thousand and One Arabian Nights (Oxford Story Collections) 
Rosamund Fowler (Illustrator)
An original version of the "Arabian Nights" stories from award-winning author Geraldine McCaughrean. In order to delay her inevitable execution, Queen Shaharazad tells her murdering husband, King Shahryar, a wonderfully exciting story every night. The King is used to a new wife every day, only to put her to death the following day, but finds himself so intrigued in the magical stories Shaharazad tells, he can't bring himself to kill her. Night after night she tells her wonderful stories until the King starts to realize that he won't be able to live without them.
Paperback 288 pages (July 15, 1999); Publisher: Oxford University Press; Language: English; ISBN: 0192750135

Web Portal / Search Engine / Directory

 Bab-el-Web  -  search engine
 Discover Tunesis
 Tunesie On-line
 Tourismtunisia.com

 Pages Jaunes  -  Yellow Guide Tunisia
 White Guide Tunisia
 Yatounes  -  search engine [ French language ] 

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