Tunisia is, according to its constitution, a secular country in which the "laws" of the Sharia (islamic laws) are not applicable.
However, the constitution also states that Tunisia is a country of islamic character.

About 95% of all people living here are Muslims, and this is reflected in many areas of daily life. In addition, there are significant traditional influences from the rich past of Tunisia and the dominance of various invaders and occupiers, including the Arabs and the French.

Many tourists, especially tourist guides, consider Tunisia as a country from "1001 Nights", but Tunisia is neither an Arab country (arab countries are the ones on the Arabian peninsula in the Middle East), nor an Oriental country (those are the ones in the Far East, Iran, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India).

Tunisia is rather a north African country, and it has a long non-arabic history. It is closely related to the neighbouring countries Morocco, Algeria and Libya and forms with them the so-called "Maghreb States".

Finally, and this should not be forgotten, Tunisia is also a country of "Third World", a poor country with mostly - by European or American standards - poor and often primitive living conditions, which are only higher in some districts of large cities and in the core tourist areas.

This all results in a, for "western" eyes, very foreign combination of thinking, lifestyle and circumstances.

You will find here a series of articles that do not follow wishes and dreams, but the current reality in Tunisia.

They are not written in the language of tourist offices and travel agencies and they do not try to be "politically correct".

The authors are frequent travellers and people who lived or actually live in Tunisia and their articles are dominated by the personal experiences and observances.

The articles are under constant review by the authors and are updated whenever new information becomes available, they are also every couple of weeks revisited to make sure that they stay as actual as possible.

And if some of the topics should sound negative for you, then please consider this:

We, the readers, see Tunisia with our "western" eyes, we make up our opinions based on the experience and values that we have collected in our cultures, our societies, our education and life circumstances.

What might look or sound negative for us, can look the opposite way for people who have been raised and who are living in a different society than ours.

Tunisia is, like any foreign country, DIFFERENT from our own - whether one considers this difference positive or negative, whether one values this or that more or less important, is up to each one of us to decide!

All things considered, for the authors, Tunisia is a country well worth visiting and for some, even worth living in!