What is the best time to visit Tunisia? Spring and fall are the best. Is it safe to travel to Tunisia? Yes, indeed. Situated in the center of Tunisia's most fertile land Located in the center of Tunisia in a plain between the Mediterranean shores and the Mountains. Kairouan is the most ancient Arabo-Muslim base of North Africa (670 AD) and one of its principal visited cities for mass tourists seeking a Tunisia cultural tour. Tunisia thrives on new tourist markets from Europe and beyond. Tunisia offers cultural, active, and spiritual tours, and sightseeing you can enjoy with travel activities of your interest in Tunisia. Cultural sightseeing of Carthage, Kairouan (AL Qayrawan) El Jem, and Tunis. Welcome to Tunisia's small group cultural tours.
Are group tours cheaper? Group tours are usually cheaper than private. However, you should also consider that group tours save you a lot of time in research, organization, and booking your trip and activities. Welcome to our Tunisia cultural tours in-depth. The capital of Ifriqiya for five centuries, it was a place of an outstanding learning center for the diffusion of Arabo-Muslim civilization. Kairouan bears a unique witness to the first centuries of this Islamic settlement in Tunisia with a thriving civilization, and a new style of architectural and urban development that gives Tunisia sightseeing aspects different than any other Mediterranean destination. The inscribed site of Al Qayrawan is a serial property that includes the medina (Old City) and its neighborhoods, the water reservation Basins of the Aghlabids Dynasty, and the Gates and markets, schools, and Sufi Zawiyas. The medina (54 ha) and its suburbs (20 ha) are an urban ensemble presenting all the components of a cultural amalgamation of a North African Arab-Turkish town. Taking a cultural guided tour at Kairouan is like stepping into an ancient sophisticated world of arts and crafts with a zest for life.
The medina comprises juxtaposed dwellings divided into quarters separated by medieval blind alleys, and narrow and winding streets; as in most of the North African cultural cities, a fortifying wall will serve to protect the city from intruders. Kairouan ramparts extend over more than three kilometers. The medina contains some remarkable monuments including the Great Mosque, an architectural masterpiece that served as a model for several other Maghreban spiritual and cultural centers. The Mosque of the Three Doors represents the most ancient existent sculpted facade of Muslim art. The Basins of the Aghlabids, an open-air reservoir formed by two communicating cisterns that date back to the 9th century, constitute one of the most beautiful hydraulic ensembles conceived to provide water to the town. Join our group cultural tour or contact us for a Tunisia customized tour just for you. Our cultural and historical Tunisia tours will live up to your expectations with even more rewarding travel discoveries and incentives. Looking forward to creating wonderful memories with you on this in-depth Tunisia cultural tour program scheduled. Enjoy our Tunisia tours. Rewarding sightseeing tours to treasure forever.
Upon your arrival at Tunis Airport, you will meet your tour leader who will transfer you to your hotel in Tunis. After lunch, your local guide will take you on a cultural and historic tour exploring the marvels of Tunis, Carthage. A former palace, the Bardo Museum accommodates the finest repository of Roman mosaics in the world. The afternoon will be devoted to visiting the principal cultural and historic sites of Carthage, the capital of the Punic (or Carthaginian) world, and later the second city in the western Roman Empire after Rome. We have the best informed Tunisian guides who not only enlighten your Tunisia cultural encounter with history but also with cultural layers of this ancient destination walking with you everywhere and answering your questions with accuracy about all that is cultural Tunisia to your interest.
Enjoy a day exploring the marvels of Tunis historic and cultural discovery with your local guide. Tunis Medina is the quintessentially model of a typical Islamic city vibrant with a maze of narrow alleys crammed with ancient buildings, covered markets from the scorching sun, public fountains, and Koranic schools, arches, and beautiful gates. In the midst of the Great Mosque of 9th-century origin, one of North Africa’s most significant Islamic buildings. The rest of the day is free for wandering the Medina or relaxing at the hotel. In the evening a private visit to the Ennejma Ezzahra (Splendid Star), built by master craftsmen in the 1900s as a home for the Baron Rodolphe d’Erlanger, in homage to his passion for the Middle East. It is now a museum and the Centre for Arab and Mediterranean Music. Overnight Tunis.
After breakfast, we will travel overland to Kairouan visiting on the way the ancient sites of Carthaginian, Roman, and Islamic highlight of historic importance. Visit the Roman site of Athina, a chance to see several good quality mosaics in situ. The amphitheater has underground vaulted cells that still witness the echo of ancient civilizations. Thuburbo Majus is a typical Roman city model, with a colonnaded forum, fine temples, houses, and baths. Explore the old irrigation system unique to this area a 51 km long aqueduct joining Carthage to Zaghouane still stand in glory. This aqueduct is mesmerizing with its water temple at natural springs of Zaghouane ostentatiously set over the hill to celebrate the importance all civilizations of the past have given to water especially Muslims who originate from the desert. Overnight in Kairouan.
After breakfast, you will meet your Tunisian local guide who will lead you to explore the marvels of the first Islamic city in North Africa. The morning is spent in Kairouan, with visits to the Medina and the Great Mosque (8th/9th century) and other examples of local traditional architecture. The immense colosseum at El Djem could hold 30,000 and is a remarkable sight, towering over its modern surroundings. The small museum nearby contains some exquisite mosaics. On your final night in Kairouan, you are invited to a farewell dinner in a traditional restaurant with live music to crown your cultural discovery tour of Tunisia.
Transfer in time to Tunis Airport to catch your flight to your next destination. Thank you for your patronage. Goodbye for now, come back and visit us again on another Tunisia cultural tour.
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Cost per person: $1845 USD
Single supplement: $285 USD
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