Aug 21 2009
Medina Tunisia
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Travel to Africa and enjoy strolling around in Tunisia’s oldest city center: the Medina Tunisia. Medina is the Arab way of naming the old city center.
When during your Africa vacation you travel to Tunisia, Morocco or Egypt (Algeria and Libya are a bit more off the beaten track), do make sure to stroll around in the old ‘medinas’.
And with old we mean very old: the Medina Tunisia for example was built 700 years before the birth of Christ. These ‘medinas’ are built to keep the sun out of people’s home, so they are a bit dark at places yet they are cool without using air conditioning! Traveling to Tunisia without visiting the Medina is like taking a shower without water…
Visitors who travel in Tunisia’s Medina will step back in time through the maze of narrow, winding streets to barter for souvenirs with the locals. Tunisia vacations are only complete when you bring home a colourful hand-made carpet or easier to carry hand-crafted jewellery and exotic spices.
Things to do on your vacation in Tunisia
When you stop by in Tunis during your Tunisia vacation, do visit:
the perfume makers’ Souk el Attarine
the ninth-century Zitouna Mosque: Zitouna translates to "Olive". The Zitouna Mosque yard can be visited every morning, except Fridays.
Main thing is to stroll around in the old Medina Tunisia and breath in an ancient civilisation that’s still vibrant when you walk through it today.
