Tunis Guide, Tunis, Tunisia

Tunis is a thriving, bustling city but as with all major capital cities, we found it wasn鈥檛 necessarily the best place to connect with locals and it definitely wasn鈥檛 an accurate representation of Tunisia as a whole.聽

Most of the best accommodation in Tunis is in and around the medina which is the labyrinth-like focal point of the city. Very important: if you鈥檙e staying in the medina, everything and I mean everything within the medina, cafes, shops and restaurants close around 3-4pm. After this time you need to leave the medina if you want to have dinner or go to the supermarket. We found this to be slightly inconvenient when we were tired and hungry and had to walk for about 20 minutes to hunt for somewhere to eat. We stumbled upon a local joint just outside the medina that served rotisserie chicken, lamb couscous, pizza, brik, ojja and all the classics which made our life a lot easier afterwards.

You can use Bolt, an app similar to Uber, to get a taxi to your accommodation, but keep in mind that taxis won鈥檛 be able to drive into the medina, you鈥檒l see why, the streets are unsuitable for vehicles and so taxis will drop you off on the edge of the medina. We were advised by our accommodation, Dar Kenza, to ask the taxi driver to call ahead so someone could come and collect us from the outskirts of the medina and show us the way to the Dar. We arrived on a flight after midnight and pre-arranged a transfer from the airport to the Dar and although it was more expensive than Bolt (拢15 more to be exact) we didn鈥檛 want the hassle of trying to find a taxi at midnight. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).

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Guide Name: Tunis Guide
Guide Location: Tunisia » Tunis
Guide Type: Self-guided Walking Tour (Article (B))
Author: Summer Buckley
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Sight(s) Featured in This Guide:

Dar Kenza
Royal Victoria Hotel
Hotel Tiba
Cafe du Souk
Caf茅 Mrabet
Burano
Restaurant of People
Green Light Coffee House
Habib Bourguiba Avenue
Zitouna Mosque
Kheireddine Palace
Municipal Market
Monument Place de la Kasbah
Bardo Museum

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