TRAVELLING AROUND FROM CAP BON

Due to their position on the map, HAMMAMET and NABEUL are ideal starting points for the most beautiful excursions. Tunis and its outlying region, KAIROUAN and SOUSSE, are just an hour away by car. One day is all it takes to discover CARTHAGE and the village of SIDI BOU SAID, the most beautiful and most typical of Moorish villages in the Mediterranean; the Bardo museum which boasts the biggest collection of mosaics; the Medina at Tunis and the souks with their endless opportunities for shopping. The holy city of Kairouan offers the majesty of its Great Mosque, the most important in Muslim Africa, its countless mausoleums and its souks where you can admire the Kairouan carpets which made the town famous. Finally Sousse, the sister resort of Hammamet and Nabeul with its ramparts, Ribat, the museum and an original Medina which provides a magnificent view over the town and the port. Archaeological trips are also recommended: EL JEM, with its huge coliseum, its mosaic museum and its Roman villas, THUBURBO MAJUS, and DOUGGA which is especially recommended as the best-preserved Roman site in Tunisia further afield, to the south, a two-day trip will take you to SFAX, the KERKENNAH, ISLANDS and the maritime oases of GABES , CHENINI and el HAMMA, or, heading inland, to the Saharan oases of GAFSA
TOZEUR, NEFTA, CHOTT EL JERID and the mountain oases (TAMERZA CHEBIKA and MIDES).