Jalan-jalan : Basic info about Tunisia (North Africa)

Actually i'm not really into writing about my journey to Tunisia now.

It's just so hard to make the will to write this, makes me remember about all the memories and my friends, which i already miss so bad right now... MISS YOU GUYS!!
I mean, come on, more than 6 weeks I lived with them in the same house. 20 of us. It will be weird if i'm not miss them.

Okay, enough about 'miss my friends' part. I'll try to write every basic things about Tunisia in here.

first up:
Currency

In Tunisia, their currency is Tunisian Dinar. They usually wrote it as DT. 

At first i look up at the internet and they said like, people can't change their currency into Tunisian Dinar in their own country, because DT was forbid to go outside Tunisia. Even when you want to leave Tunisia and you still have your DT on you (you didn't exchange it back to your own currency), police at the airport have the right to search your bag and find the leftover DT from you even the smallest coin, so you really have to exchange it back. 

But Turns out, my friend from Portugal, exchange her money before coming to Tunisia. And i bring a lot of DT coins back to Indonesia, because you can't exchange below 50DT, if i'm not wrong.

So basically, people didn't really know Tunisia that much.

Also for Indonesian like me who love fruits very much, the fruits there was so cheap (except the banana)! Even when i bought them at the supermarket!! Their grapes, peach, cherry, plum, etc. Oh god, fruits heaven...

and for the
Transportation

- Flight : If you come from Indonesia, then just try to choose Egypt Air. Much more cheaper than any other flight. Start price : $600 (round trip, saw the price 2 months before the flight time). But then because of the visa was so hard to get, i couldn't booked the Egypt Air cheap ticket, and had to booked for Lufthansa. The Egypt Air ticket become way more expensive because i had to buy the ticket too sudden

- Inside city : There are many, such as private taxi (starting price 0.450DT), shared taxi or louage (1DT/journey, with specific area route, they wrote the route in bald arabic), tram (around 0.500DT), and bus (know nothing).

You can searched for tram route map in internet, but i don't think there is any for bus.

then shall we look at the food? Hehe my favourite part!
Food
People in Tunisia really love sweets. So you can easily find a bakery shop in every street (but they have the same menu in every shop, with a slightly different taste and variance).

Yummm Bambalouni

Many kind of almond

(red one with olive oil) Harissa  sauce and with other not too spicy sauce i forgot the name

(left to right) Dates smoothie and Fig-Fraise smoothie

Tozeur special pizza!

Our local breakfast : Tunisian plate with french bread and french fries

next is....

Weather

Because when i went there it's summer time, obviously it's super hot! Like the sunlight was so strong (stronger than in Indonesia, the tropical country) and making me super tan... Average temperature maybe 32 C. 

But i experienced some rain twice in those almost 7 weeks of my stay.

Touristic Places

Sahara Desert in Douz

Beach in Hammamet

Mos Espa (STAR WARS SET)

Chott El Jerid (Salt Lake)

El Jem in Mahdia

Even though safety is the issue i concern the most in Tunisia, i'm pretty much felt safe there. Many polices guard on the road with the big long gun. Locals are very very veery nice too.

More photos on the next post!
(All of the photos were taken by me using my camera phone)