Travel Tunisia.
A small country at the crossroads of the Mediterranean and the Sahara, layered with three thousand years of history. Here is the practical knowledge you need before you go — and the cultural keys that turn a visit into something deeper.
Plan Your Trip.
The essentials every traveler needs to settle before the flight is booked.
Visa & Entry
Who needs a visa, who travels visa-free, and what to carry at the border. The complete guide to entering Tunisia.
Read the guide → ii.The Tunisian Dinar
A closed currency with rules worth knowing before arrival. How to exchange, withdraw, tip, and avoid the airport rate.
Read the guide → iii.Best Time to Visit
April–May and September–October are the sweet spot — warm sea, mild inland, lower prices. A month-by-month guide to weather and seasons.
Read the guide → iv.The Language
Tunisian Arabic — called Derja — is the spoken tongue of daily life. The phrases you’ll actually use in the taxi, the souk, and the café.
Read the guide → v.Cost of Living
What things cost on the ground — from a café espresso to a month in a seaside apartment. A practical baseline for budgeting your trip.
Read the guide → vi.Tunisia FAQ
Do they speak English? Can you drink the tap water? Is it expensive? Honest answers to the twenty-three questions everyone asks.
Read the answers →Solo & Female Travel
Is Tunisia safe to travel alone? An honest guide to harassment, dress, transport, and the cities that welcome women on their own.
Read the guide → viii.What to Wear
Dress codes for beaches, medinas, mosques, and the Sahara — season by season — plus the honest packing list.
Read the guide → ix.Is Tunisia Safe?
The unvarnished answer — what the travel advisories actually say, where tourists actually go, and how the two barely overlap.
Read the guide →Where to Go.
The honest, on-the-ground guides to Tunisia’s cities, coasts, and desert — by region.
Tunis & the Bay
Tunis
The capital — a UNESCO medina, French-era boulevards, and the Bardo’s mosaics. The natural base for the north.
Read the guide →Carthage
Phoenician capital, Roman city, seaside suburb — the ruins of Rome’s great rival, strung along the Gulf of Tunis.
Read the guide →Sidi Bou Said
The blue-and-white village on the cliff above Carthage — jasmine, sea light, and the Mediterranean’s most photographed sunset.
Read the guide →Cap Bon & the North
Hammamet
Tunisia’s original beach resort — long sand, a walled medina, and the gardens of Cap Bon’s southern shoulder.
Read the guide →Cap Bon
The garden peninsula — vineyards, citrus, hot springs, and quiet coves between Nabeul and the tip at El Haouaria.
Read the guide →Tabarka
The coral coast where the mountains meet the sea — pines, diving, a Genoese fort, and a famous summer jazz festival.
Read the guide →The Sahel & Kairouan
Sousse
The “Pearl of the Sahel” — a UNESCO medina and ribat wrapped around a big, easy beach. The coast’s best base.
Read the guide →Monastir
Bourguiba’s hometown — a gleaming ribat over the sea, a grand mausoleum, and a relaxed marina town.
Read the guide →Kairouan
Islam’s fourth holiest city — the Great Mosque, the medina’s carpets, and the spiritual heart of the country.
Read the guide →Djerba & the South
Djerba
The UNESCO island of whitewashed mosques, Africa’s oldest synagogue, and long southern beaches. Sun nearly all year.
Read the guide →The Sahara
Douz, Tozeur, and the dunes of the Grand Erg — oases, camel treks, and nights under the desert sky.
Read the guide →Star Wars Country
The southern film sets where Tatooine was born — Matmata’s pit homes, Ong Jemel, and the ruins of Mos Espa.
Read the guide →Islands, Hills & Oases
Kerkennah
The flat, palm-scattered archipelago off Sfax — UNESCO-listed charfia fishing, octopus, and Tunisia’s slowest place.
Read the guide →Zaghouan & Zriba
The Roman Water Temple, the mountain that fed Carthage, and Zriba El Alia — the ghost village on the hill.
Read the guide →The Mountain Oases
Chebika, Tamerza & Midès — waterfalls, canyons, and the villages the floods of 1969 left behind, an hour from Tozeur.
Read the guide →Getting There & Around.
However you arrive, and however you move once you’re here.
Flights to Tunisia
Which airports, which airlines, and how to reach Tunisia by air from Europe, North America, and beyond — an honest guide to getting there.
Read the guide → ii.Getting There & Around
Louages, trains, buses, taxis, car rental — and the ferries from Marseille, Genoa, and Palermo. The complete guide to reaching and moving around the country by land and sea.
Read the guide →Stay & Explore.
Where to sleep, and what to walk out the door for.
Hotels in Tunisia
From beachfront resorts in Hammamet to riads in the medina of Tunis and ksour-style stays in the south. A guide to where to lay your head, by region and by traveler.
Read the guide → ii.Attractions & Things to See
Carthage’s ruins, Sidi Bou Said’s blue doors, the amphitheater of El Jem, the dunes of Douz, the medinas of Tunis, Sfax, and Kairouan. A growing collection.
Browse attractions →Days Well Spent.
The table, the tee, the reef, and the perfect single day.
Where to Eat in Tunis
Medina palaces, the old guard downtown, La Goulette’s fish row, and the street — the capital, register by register.
Read the guide → ii.One Day in Tunis
Off a cruise ship or on a layover — Carthage, Sidi Bou Said, and the medina in a single well-planned day, without missing the boat.
Read the guide → iii.Golf in Tunisia
Every course from Tabarka’s cork-oak classic to the 45 holes of Citrus and a Sahara oasis round — fees, seasons, honest form.
Read the guide → iv.Diving the Coral Coast
The Tunnels, 40-kilo groupers, red coral, and expedition days to La Galite — Tunisia’s premier dive water, honestly graded.
Read the guide →Tunisia or…? An Honest Comparison.
Weighing Tunisia against another Mediterranean trip? We make the fair case — from Tunis.
Tunisia or Egypt?
Pyramids and the Nile, or Carthage and the Sahara? How the two North African heavyweights really compare.
Read the comparison →Tunisia or Turkey?
Istanbul and Cappadocia against Carthage and the desert — the hardest comparison to win, made honestly.
Read the comparison →Tunisia or Morocco?
The Maghreb’s two great trips, side by side — souks, sand, and where each one quietly wins.
Read the comparison →…or within Tunisia
Hammamet or Sousse?
The two flagship resorts, an hour apart — beaches, medinas, day trips, and families, settled category by category.
Read the comparison →Djerba or Hammamet?
Island or mainland — the decision half of Tunisia’s package searches come down to, including who owns the winter.
Read the comparison →Latest Travel Stories.
New writing on Tunisia — the corners, the people, the road.