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Djerba, an island off the coast of Tunisia, has gentle sandy beaches and a perfect Mediterranean climate, making it a popular winter beach destination for tourists. The island has many resorts catering to visitors and also offers cultural attractions for those interested in history and local traditions. Key places to visit include the old town of Houmt Souk with its whitewashed houses and shops, the Bordj el Kebir fortress overlooking the harbor built in the 13th century, and the popular Sidi Maharès beach on the northeast coast.
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Djerba, an island off the coast of Tunisia, has gentle sandy beaches and a perfect Mediterranean climate, making it a popular winter beach destination for tourists. The island has many resorts catering to visitors and also offers cultural attractions for those interested in history and local traditions. Key places to visit include the old town of Houmt Souk with its whitewashed houses and shops, the Bordj el Kebir fortress overlooking the harbor built in the 13th century, and the popular Sidi Maharès beach on the northeast coast.
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Just five kilometers off Tunisia's

southern coast, this island


idyll's gently sloping, sandy
beaches and perfect
Mediterranean climate have
made it one of the best places
to visit in the country for
tourists looking for a winter
beach break.

A few words about Djerba


Plenty of resorts
cater to this
Holiday in
crowd, but

Djerba
The great island of the Tunisian Djerba also
South and Zarzis, its neighbour on offers other
sightseeing
the mainland, are one of the most
attractions to
marvellous holiday destinations in the tourists
the Mediterranean. Djerba is also
a traditional land and a gateway to
the nearby Sahara.

Who lives
sees, but who
travels sees
more.

Ibn Battuta
02 Bordj el Kebir
A fort has looked out over
Places to visit in Houmt Souk's harbor since
Djerba : the 13th century.
the infamous corsair
01 Houmt Souk Old Town Dragut built the massive 03 Djerba Explore Park
Bordj el Kebir fortress to Djerba Explore Park sits on
With its unusual maze of alleyways
lined by picturesque whitewashed look out over the bay. the island's coastal road, 20
houses and shops selling colorful kilometers east of Houmt
ceramics, the Old Town district of Souk. The complex combines
Houmt Souk (Djerba's main town) was the Lalla Hadria Museum and
made for strolling. A number of graceful the Djerba Explore Crocodile
fondouks (caravanserais) can be seen in
the center of Houmt Souk's alleyways
“ISLAND Farm which is a small nature
These merchant inns combined DAYS, park where you can view over
100 crocodiles lounging in .
sleeping quarters, animal stabling, and
warehouse storage for the many
ISLAND
traveling merchants who traversed WAYS,
North Africa, buying up salt, spices, and
textiles to take back to Europe. Their
SURF, SUN &
typical structure usually took the shape SUNNY
of a series of rooms, several stories high,
built around an arcaded courtyard. . The
RAYS”
displays of traditional handicrafts in the
souk streets here include Berber 05 Sidi Maharès beach
jewelry, textiles, traditional shoes, brass
and silverware, leather goods, and piles
upon piles of hand-painted pottery. It's It is Djerba's most popular
a shopaholic's dream that few resist. beach. It is situated on the
island's northeast coast . It is
the perfect place to relax and
catch some sun . It's the oldest
resort beach on the island and
hence the most developed.

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