The region around the important city of Sfax.
I have been intending to go to El Jem for quite some time but being up in Bizerte it was always a bit far away for a day trip, so I was very happy when the wife agreed to make the significant detour on the way back from Mahdia so that we could visit. El Jem is probably the last place you...
The islands of Kerkennah are located off the coast of Tunisia near the large industrial city of Sfax and you reach them via boat from Sfax which takes just over one hour. With a population of about 15,000 people, the islands are not one of the most popular tourist destinations in Tunisia...
Apart from the Roman colosseum, the sights of El Jem are still covered by sand. And the city of El Jem is a sleepy place without much character. But the colosseum is great, almost as big as the one of Rome, and in better condition. It is 148 metres long by 122 metres wide, with tiers up...
Sfax is the second largest city of Tunisia, housing around 400,000. Tunisians in general consider people from Sfax as excellent merchants and as more hardworking than Tunisians in general. And the University of Sfax is better than the two of Tunis. True or not, I don’t know. University of...