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Tunisa?

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Roastonsun8 · 16/05/2022 20:49

Had anyone been to Tunisa with their DC alone? I noticed it's really cheap. Is it similar to Turkey?

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Elior · 29/05/2023 18:59

I liked El Jem and the desert safari. The food was good. Sidi Bou was lovely and port el Kantaoui had good food (this was before the terrorist attack, i couldn't face it now). However, I was groped, my DH was pickpocketed and on the prior occasion, the tour guide tried to puck up the mate I was travelling with.

SummerSimmer · 29/05/2023 19:17

I just returned from a solo trip and funnily I’m off to Turkey in a couple of days.
I had a fantastic time, part of the reason I went was to visit a new country (my 59th), to have some cheap spa treatments and to visit the Atlas Mountains.
I would definitely go again but choose a different part so that the excursions are different.

101cockerspaniels · 29/05/2023 23:26

Quveas · 29/05/2023 15:23

So I am heartened to hear that you enjoyed it, but I don't think the experiences of the many others who felt uncomfortable there can just be dismissed.

The poverty and the dirtiness of the place needs to improve - for the Tunisians, foremost, and then tourists. And I very much hope it does.

I think I was very clear that I wasn't dismissing anything - but people have different perspectives and different opinions, and a few random posts on MN is hardly representative of the many thousands who go to Tunisia and enjoy it, so I made it clear that I was presenting a different view based on my experience. And my third time in Tunisia, although my friends first time.

I cannot disagree about the poverty etc. I have similar hopes for the UK. And many other places. You cannot expect everywhere in the world to reflect standards in the UK, and comparisons are meaningless - although in my many discussions with Tunisians from many walks of life, they were shocked to hear about food banks, because for the poverty that does exist, they found it hard to comprehend that people would actually be without food, or that any society would permit that to be the case. Perspectives, you see....

Just out of interest is there a huge divide of wealth in Tunisia with billionaires in the capital Tunis? Like in most poverty stricken counteries the wealth is usually unequally shared out..
I know in comparison Turkey is very cosmopolitan with many large multinationals & international law firms based in Istanbul & Ankara.. A friend is often in Istanbul for work & loves it so much.

rainbowarepretty · 31/05/2023 20:44

I went and never again!!
I was Ill the whole time, dirty. On a positive, I lost a lot of weight!

Hoppinggreen · 31/05/2023 20:46

One of the few places I would never go back to.

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