I enjoyed very much this journey in Tunisia: beautiful landscapes (Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunis, Tataouine, Chenini, the Sahara desert, Kairouan, Bizerte and Djerba) and nice encounters.
In 2018 Tunisia has received 8 millions of visitors: beside the mass tourism , there are som interesting experiences of ecotourism: Issam Miladi, an ornithologist, organizes in the area of the Cape Bon excursions; canoeing and then a picnic with sardines and fresh vegetables of the area.
In Kesra the entrepreneur Lofti Hamadi has promoted the creation of guesthouses: he walks with his visitors through this village, they taste figs and make a horsebackriding.
Some words about the Tunisian women: the first president of Tunisia Habib Bourguiba declared the equality of men and women in the Constitution of the country.: Mounira Saidan is taxi driver, sometimes the men don't want to enter into her taxi, but the young people enjoy to travel with her. Heif Bazdeh is DJ and her companion Ali Mrabet is also DJ and they speak about the tolerance in the discotheque.
We see a short excursion about the archipelago of Kerkennah: Sami and other fishermen have a typical fishing technique: they stand in the water with their nets and capture fishes singing songs.
Then we travel to Douz, the gateway to the Sahara: Fathi Ben Harfa ( an entrepreneur of Djerba) takes a car and drives through the desert to find his nomad friends: there is a water well and he meets there his friend Khalifa an Algerian nomad and later there is a campfire with the nomads.
Tunisia has a very rich historical heritage: at Nabeul we meeet Mounir Fantar and his father Hassine Fantar who are discovering the Forum of the Roman town Neapolis. Hassine speaks also about Carthage and its Roman thermal baths. Then we see the ruins of Dougga (Unesco world heritage site) and we arrive at El Jem, a town with a nice and huge Roman amphitheater: Ridha Hfaayedh want to give life to this place showing Roman gladiators fights and each year there is a parade of Roman soldiers.
In Tunis we meet two fashion designers, Achraf El Abed and Chems Eddine Mechri who have lived the jasmin revolution and are proud of their Tunisian identity: besides Chems travels often to a village where Amna Abbed is making wickerwork.
I enjoyed the enconters of Jérôme with with Syrine Ben Moussa,singer and musicologist,with the Dr. Habib Belhedi in Tataouine ( the stay in Chenini), with Ahmed Saadi and his family in Chenini, with Karima and her father Noureddine El Bedoui ( Kairoan and the olive trees farm), with Naji Ben Aissa in Bizerte (the diving moment), with Gérard and Mohamed Bayouli in Djerba; very nice encounters with very kind Tunisian men and women.