Sidi Daoud, Tunisia Travel Journals & Blogs

Tunesien 2022
- Mar 24, 2022, 4:24pm · ⛅ 17 °C Altitude: 3 m
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Sidi Daoued Sidi Daoud 36.865, 10.2966736°51’54” N 10°17’48” E
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Day14
Ein Abschied nicht von langer Dauer
March 24, 2022 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Wir verabschieden uns von unseren Reisenpartner Paddy, Ingo und Jack Rommel von Douz 🐕.
Sie sollten heute mit der Fähre nach Italien fahren. Doch es kommt anders. Ihre Fähre wird gecancelt.
Wir verabreden uns in Tunis und werden hoffentlich morgen zusammen nach Genua fahren.
Der Gärtner ist so lieb und macht ein Foto von uns.
Wir treffen uns auf einem Supermarkt Parkplatz in Tunis.Read more
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Krass, hoffentlich habt Ihr Glück und könnt zusammen fahren. 🤞
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ja. sie haben schon ihr Ticket
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Traveler La mia settimana in Tunisia
- Aug 20, 2018, 9:09am · ⛅ 26 °C Altitude: 44 m
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Douar ech Chott Byrsa 36.85292, 10.3217236°51’11” N 10°19’18” E
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Day6
The Acropolis of Carthage
August 20, 2018 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 26 °C
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We say goodbye to the house in the Medina and head to the long awaited Acropolis of Carthage. The good weather makes me so emotional ! I want to shout that IT IS SUNNY IN TUNIS TODAY!
The massive Cathedral of Saint Louis is just on the top of the hill of the Acropolis. It was built by the French protectorat at the end of the 19th century. It looks a bit anacronistic if compared to the ancient ruins which surround it, but it has got beauty in itself. If seen by a distance it is like l'Eglise su Sacré Coeur in Paris.

It's high time we went to the the archeologic site. Actually, the sites (plural), because Carthage's ruins are scattered all along the hill. I just realize there won't be enough time to see them all. We make a choice and go for the nearby Museum and archeological site. The museum is closed for maintenance but the ancient Basilicas and the Punic quarter looking out the double circles of the Punic harbour give me the creeps. This site is even older than the Roman sites I am used to in Europe. Hannibal resided here. The Punic battles were fought from here, Hannibal , the undefeated hater of Romans, was Tunisian!
I shouldn't talk but the hot is killing me, and Walid. We move to the second site, the Termae of Antonin dated II century A.C.which is inside a beautiful archeological park. On the way, we come across a beautiful building that we find out to be the Institute of Arts and Science of Tunis. Thanks to the kind guardian, who was about to go to lunch, we get access to the building. What a spectacular view!
The Termae (Spa) lays just by the sea, they are massive and many buildings are in an excellent state. We sit down to admire the times gone by and to gain a little shade.

It's time to go home...but not before trying a delicious Brik at a nearby pizzeria. Brik is a deep fried crunchy thin crèpe filled with tuna, eggs and cheese. Spectacular. Thank you Walid.

When we get home Mansour shows me a number 1-shaped birthday candle and tells me "this is the first time for you in our home". I don't take too much notice.
When later in the evening I see a carton box hiding a pistache cake from the best patisserie in town I understand and while I blow on the candle I burst into tears.Read more
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Brik!
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Termae of Antonin
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Thank you with my heart.
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Traveler La mia settimana in Tunisia
- Aug 19, 2018, 4:00pm · ☀️ 25 °C Altitude: 56 m
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Sidi Bou Said Sidi Bou Said Port 36.86983, 10.3413736°52’11” N 10°20’29” E
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Day5
Sidi Bou Said and La Goulette
August 19, 2018 in Tunisia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
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The thunderstorm.

Despite the roaring thunders, in the afternoon we decided to go north-east towards the coast. The mythic ancient city of Carthage lays next to two quiet villages called Sidi Bou Said (literally Mister Father of Said) and the port of La Goulette. In the port of La Goulette the famous Italian actress Claudia Cardinale was born from Sicilian parents.

A gloomy sky was threatening us as we arrived in the pretty square of Sidi Boud Said. Clock! Clock!clock!clock!clock!....
An epic warm hailstorm befell upon the little village with such a violence that we had to find shelter in a cafè. No one here has ever seen anything like that before. I think about climate change.
It lasted a long hour and then the wind and the rain calmed down. Soaked like a sponge, I buy a pair of new sandals and we headed to La Goulette looking for a place to eat. In La Goulette the roads were flooded, people walked in the street barefoot with the water up to their knees. We kept on driving in panic until we came across a flock of sheep soaked in water in the middle of the street which didn't want to move.
My worst thoughts naturally flew into me. I had no hopes we would go back to Tunis by the end of the day.
As I was able to spot from the plane, La Goulette is connected to Tunis by a motorway whose first segment is built just on a bridge above a lake. I was determined not to drive upon that bridge.
Walid had to call the police to convince me that the way back was safe, so I took a breath. When the flood was behind us we found a super smart fish restaurant where I had the first and the best-deserved and most delicious Ojja in my life.
Ojja is a thick fish soup with whole eggs baked into it.
What-a-day !Read more
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Flood at La Goulette
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Seafood Ojja to forget the thunderstorm...
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Cafè in Sidi Bou Said
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The only view we got of Sidi Bou Said
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Cruising donkeys Cruising Donkeys to Greece
- May 19, 2018 · ⛅ 22 °C Altitude: Sealevel
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Carthage Koudiat Maza 36.854582, 10.33491436°51’16” N 10°20’6” E
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Carthage
May 19, 2018 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
OK so we saw lots of different archeological sites in Carthage the first and least impressive was the Roman amphitheater mostly because it was very much a ruin so difficult to imagine the true scale. From there we went to the Carthage Basra museum and grounds ,the museum was actually closed for refurbishment but that was OK as the write ups said it wasn’t very good anyway but in the grounds were Punic ruins of the old town early second century BC and the Old Cathedral. Next the St. Antonine Roman baths third largest in Roman world, they were impressive then the Roman villas where for those of us with little imagination they have rebuilt one. We also saw the Punic harbour and the Trophet (children’s cemetery sort off, but only for the first born of each family and they were apparently cremated after their throats were cut). Nearly done so off we went to the Roman theatre, which wasn’t very historic only a few old bits still exist but it has been rebuilt and is used for music festivals in the summer, and finally the cisterns/reservoirs, we didn’t have any info on them but they were impressive and must have stored a lot of water that was brought down from somewhere whose name starts with Z by aquaduct.Read more
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Traveler 1992 Tunesien
- May 4, 1992 · ☀️ 19 °C Altitude: 2 m
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Carthage Koudiat Maza 36.85478, 10.33486836°51’17” N 10°20’6” E
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1992 Tunis - Karthago
May 4, 1992 in Tunisia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Die alte Hauptstadt der Phönizier. Hier die Ruinen der Antoninus-Pius-Thermen. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karthago
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Traveler 1992 Tunesien
- May 6, 1992 · ⛅ 29 °C Altitude: 48 m
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Sidi Bou Said 36.870209, 10.34143436°52’13” N 10°20’29” E
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1992 Sidi Bou Said
May 6, 1992 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 29 °C
Ein hübsches Künstlerdorf.
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Cruising donkeys Cruising Donkeys to Greece
- May 19, 2018 · ⛅ 22 °C Altitude: 54 m
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Sidi Bou Said 36.872963, 10.34051936°52’23” N 10°20’26” E
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Sidi Bou Said
May 19, 2018 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
A beautiful hill top town of white washed houses and almost exclusively blue doors and shutters overlooking Tunis bay.
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Traveler Tunisia in December
- Dec 29, 2019 · ⛅ 12 °C Altitude: 8 m
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Carthage Byrsa Exarchate of Africa (Division of the Byzantine Empire)Parc Archéologique des Thermes 36.85501, 10.3338236°51’18” N 10°20’2” E
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Romani contro Cartaginesi
December 29, 2019 in Tunisia ⋅ ⛅ 12 °C
Tra statue e antichi sassi, terme e ville abbiamo camminato indietro nel tempo 17.672 passi fino al II sec. ai primi abitanti punici di questa regione.
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Briefe von Felix Motorcycle trip
- Dec 1, 2019, 3:00am · ☀️ 10 °C Altitude: 12 m
  Tunisia Gouvernorat de Tunis Cité Ezzitouna 36.8539, 10.284136°51’14” N 10°17’3” E
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Day73
"The third left after the mosque"
December 1, 2019 in Tunisia ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
Es ist exakt Mitternacht, als die Fähre mit eineinhalb Stunden Verspätung im Hafen von Tunis anlandet. Die Passagiere, die zuvor noch schlaftrunken in ihren selbst errichteten Ruhelagern quer über die Gänge liegend gedöst hatten, drängen nun plötzlich hoch motiviert von der Laderampe. Sowohl diejenigen ohne, als auch solche mit eigenem Fahrzeug folgen dabei getrost dem Vorsatz, die Ordner mit ihren energisch geschwungen Leuchtstäben zu ignorieren oder aus dem Weg zu hupen. Ich nutze das allgemeine Chaos und schlängele mich durch sich auftuende Lücken, um somit recht zügig an der Pass- und Zollkontrolle anzukommen. Für die Einfuhr des Motorrads muss ich an insgesamt vier Schaltern vorstellig werden, um Stempel und Unterschriften einzuholen. Recht unverblümt werde ich dabei nach Bestechungsgeld gefragt, was ich aber zu meiner eigenen Überraschung in allen Fällen dadurch abwenden kann, dass keiner der Beamten Englisch spricht. Kommt es zu unangenehmen Forderungen, wiederhole ich gebetsmühlenartigen 'Oui oui' mit betont schlechter Aussprache, um mich dann mit fragendem Blick nicht zu rühren, bis der lauterwerdende Mob wartender Passagiere hinter mir den genervten Zöllner zur Aufgabe zwingt.

Um 1 Uhr nachts verlasse ich mit unreduzierter Menge an Dinar im Geldbeutel den Hafen und trete die 20 minütige Fahrt zur Adresse der jungen Tunesierin Sana an, in deren kleinen Wohnung ich ein Schlafsofa gemietet habe.
Bevor sie mir jedoch mit ihrer Freundin um 3 Uhr morgens ein typisch tunesisches Gericht kochte, sollte ich in dieser Nacht noch vor zwei Polizeikontrollen flüchten und an einer einstündigen Schnitzeljagd nach einer Wohnung teilnehmen, bei der mich eine angetrunkene 22-Jährige mit ausgeprägter Rechts-Links-Schwäche per Telefon durch das nächtliche Tunis navigiert. Bienvenue en Tunisie!Read more
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