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Tunisia travel guides for Americans

Ten questions, answered before anything else is asked of you. Each guide opens with the answer, puts its figures in tables, names where every figure came from and says when it was last checked. They are written by Iconic Tunisia, and where our own prices and itineraries are the evidence, they are read from the journey pages so the two cannot disagree.

  1. The Antonine Baths at Carthage beside the Bay of Tunis, with two tall columns and mountains across the water

    Is Tunisia safe for Americans?

    The State Department rates Tunisia Level 2. What Level 4 covers, which of our stops our own measurements put inside a border zone, and what we could not verify.

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  4. The sand coloured ramparts and square tower of the kasbah at Hammamet, with a Tunisian flag flying and hills behind

    What a private trip to Tunisia costs in 2027

    Real published prices: $1,950 to $3,690 per person for 7 to 12 days, a single room supplement of exactly $75 a night, and what each programme includes.

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  5. A facade of patterned yellow brick above white arches in the Ouled El Hadef quarter of the Tozeur medina

    Tunisia or Morocco for a first trip

    Tunisia and Morocco compared on US flights, visitors, price level and State Department advisories, with sources and where the figures are not like for like.

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  6. A horseshoe arch lit at night over a pierced screen of Kufic calligraphy, with slender marble columns on either side

    Getting to Tunisia from the US and Canada

    No nonstop flies from the US to Tunisia. The one North American nonstop is Tunisair from Montreal. One stop routings, airports and entry rules, with sources.

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  7. The seafront promenade at La Marsa with a white balustrade, a few people on the benches and the bay and wooded headland beyond

    The hotels we use in Tunisia, named

    The hotels, guest houses and desert camps our programmes use, named with the heading each sheet gives, and what public sources confirm about six.

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  8. Domed clay buildings and a moisture vaporator prop of the Mos Espa film set at Ong Jmel, standing on the sand near Nefta

    Star Wars filming locations in Tunisia

    Where Star Wars was filmed in Tunisia, film by film and area by area: Chott el Djerid, Matmata, Mos Espa, the ksour and Djerba. Sourced, with one disputed site.

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  9. The inside of the Roman amphitheatre at El Djem seen from the upper tier, with the arena floor below and the tiers of arches curving away

    The 2027 total solar eclipse in Tunisia

    Totality on 2 August 2027 lasts about 5 minutes 40 seconds at Sfax. Which Tunisian towns are inside the path, what each source says, and why they differ.

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  10. A Moorish arcade of horseshoe arches lit warm against the night sky, with steps and a cobbled forecourt in front

    Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia's newest UNESCO site

    UNESCO inscribed Sidi Bou Said on 25 July 2026, Tunisia's tenth World Heritage property. What the inscription says, what it flags, and Tunisia's ten sites.

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How these guides are made

  • Every factual claim names its source and links to it.
  • Where sources disagree, the guide says so and gives both. Where we could not verify something, it says that too.
  • Figures about our own journeys are the ones on the journey pages, read from the same data, with the arithmetic labelled as ours.

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