As an integral part of the Maghreb, Tunisia is still too often imprisoned by postcard images that haunt the imaginary (exotic beaches, edifying ruins, desert solitude ...), so many cliches synonymous with successful holidays.Gardienne of a scientist Balance between modernity and tradition, Tunisia offers a thousand and one tracks to discover its other facets. The traveler can then easily follow the fugitive fingerprints of the civilizations which succeeded one another on these landscapes and shaped them: the Phoenicians, who founded Carthage, the Romans, who destroyed it and colonized all of North Africa, the Byzantines, Arabs, Andalusians, Turks, then Italians and French. Tunisia offers landscapes of history, but also landscapes quite short: the diversity of the coasts is matched only by the nuances of the jebel or the desert. From the rainy mountains of Kroumirie to the first dunes of the Sahara through the plains of the Sahel, Tunisia is a land of encounters, a crossroads of civilizations. Remember Hamilcar, Saint Augustine, Ibn Khaldoun, Barbarossa ... More information: http://www.routard.com/guide/code_dest/tunisie.htm#ixzz4k48qxHG3
