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, seasons, and what to pack for the coast, the medina, and the Sahara.
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.Travel Information
The umbrella overview — geography, regions, time zones, electricity, connectivity, and the practical rhythms of a Tunisian day.
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 & Djerba
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 →Djerba
The UNESCO island of whitewashed mosques, Africa’s oldest synagogue, and long southern beaches. Sun nearly all year.
Read the guide →Kairouan & the South
Kairouan
Islam’s fourth holiest city — the Great Mosque, the medina’s carpets, and the spiritual heart of the country.
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 →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 Around
Louages, trains, buses, taxis, ferries, and car rental — the complete guide to moving around the country by land and sea once you’ve arrived.
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 →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 →Latest Travel Stories.
New writing on Tunisia — the corners, the people, the road.