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I thought I'd share our itinerary from our recent trip to Tunisia, see such we didn't drive and the addition of Djerba greatly increases the area you need to cover. We flew both in and out of Tunis (our only option for flying from Morocco, then flying out with Turkish Airlines). It was tempting to get to Djerba by flying, but it's about 10 times more expensive than the bus and as we had booked our flights to/from Australia before finalising our itinerary, we had time for the bus. Obviously it would be easier and quicker with a car, but we had no issues with public transport - we were surprised how easy and cheap it was!

Day 1: Flew into Tunis, our base for 6 nights (staying in the core zone of the medina)
Day 2: Visited Carthage WHS and Sidi Bou Said TWHS by local bus (local train partially out of action)
Day 3: Visited Dougga WHS by louage and taxi (so efficient, the louage organised a taxi to meet us), including the Numidian Mausoleums TWHS, explored Medina of Tunis WHS
Day 4: Visited Ichkeul WHS by louage to Menzel Bourguibba and taxi (I'll have to write a review with more details, but the guards let us in without a permit for a quick visit, and our very helpful taxi driver only intended to charge us 30 TND (less than 10 euros) for his 2 hour "tour")
Day 5: Visited Kerkuane by louage and taxi/walking
Day 6: Visited the Bardo National Museum (not a site, but a must-see - we spent 5 hr)
Day 7: 8 hour bus trip to Houmt Souk, Djerba - Buy a ticket at least a day in advance from SNTRI counter at Gare Routiere Sud and be prepared for a scrum getting on the bus due to unallocated seating (but they don't sell more tickets than seats)
Day 8: Explore Djerba WHS (I recommend going to the Heritage Museum in Djerba first, which has some excellent displays on the local culture, although isn't part of the listing. We ticked off Houmt Souk Medina, the church and one mosque along the coast that we walked to.)
Day 9: Early morning 6 hour bus trip to El Jem. Visited El Jem WHS plus museum. Louage to Sousse, our base for the next 4 nights (again staying in the core zone of the medina)
Day 10: Explored Medina of Sousse WHS
Day 11: Visited Kairouan WHS by louage

We had an extra day in Sousse and Tunis at the end, in case we had issues with visiting any of the sites and needed extra time, before flying out of Tunis the morning of Day 14.

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	elsslots Admin	#16 \| Posted: 18 Sep 2023 23:22 \| Edited by: elsslots
		Jasam Thanks! I will have a look. UPDATE: it worked! 31 locations present now, and at least they are all on the island It also confirms that the Meninx site isn't included.

	Zoe Partaker	#17 \| Posted: 19 Sep 2023 02:18
		I'll need to update my review and I think that "rock" from one of my pictures wasn't included either.

	scleaver Partaker	#18 \| Posted: 7 May 2025 04:20
		I thought I'd share our itinerary from our recent trip to Tunisia, see such we didn't drive and the addition of Djerba greatly increases the area you need to cover. We flew both in and out of Tunis (our only option for flying from Morocco, then flying out with Turkish Airlines). It was tempting to get to Djerba by flying, but it's about 10 times more expensive than the bus and as we had booked our flights to/from Australia before finalising our itinerary, we had time for the bus. Obviously it would be easier and quicker with a car, but we had no issues with public transport - we were surprised how easy and cheap it was! Day 1: Flew into Tunis, our base for 6 nights (staying in the core zone of the medina) Day 2: Visited Carthage WHS and Sidi Bou Said TWHS by local bus (local train partially out of action) Day 3: Visited Dougga WHS by louage and taxi (so efficient, the louage organised a taxi to meet us), including the Numidian Mausoleums TWHS, explored Medina of Tunis WHS Day 4: Visited Ichkeul WHS by louage to Menzel Bourguibba and taxi (I'll have to write a review with more details, but the guards let us in without a permit for a quick visit, and our very helpful taxi driver only intended to charge us 30 TND (less than 10 euros) for his 2 hour "tour") Day 5: Visited Kerkuane by louage and taxi/walking Day 6: Visited the Bardo National Museum (not a site, but a must-see - we spent 5 hr) Day 7: 8 hour bus trip to Houmt Souk, Djerba - Buy a ticket at least a day in advance from SNTRI counter at Gare Routiere Sud and be prepared for a scrum getting on the bus due to unallocated seating (but they don't sell more tickets than seats) Day 8: Explore Djerba WHS (I recommend going to the Heritage Museum in Djerba first, which has some excellent displays on the local culture, although isn't part of the listing. We ticked off Houmt Souk Medina, the church and one mosque along the coast that we walked to.) Day 9: Early morning 6 hour bus trip to El Jem. Visited El Jem WHS plus museum. Louage to Sousse, our base for the next 4 nights (again staying in the core zone of the medina) Day 10: Explored Medina of Sousse WHS Day 11: Visited Kairouan WHS by louage We had an extra day in Sousse and Tunis at the end, in case we had issues with visiting any of the sites and needed extra time, before flying out of Tunis the morning of Day 14.