Tunisia

  • Africa,  Tunisia

    Traveling in North Africa: Highlights from a Holiday in Tunisia

    Tunisia, The Original Africa North Africa is brimming with individuality. The region is unlike anywhere else I’ve visited before, although there are bits of familiarity within the culture, architecture, religion, cuisine and landscape. It is in those small recognizable morsels that leaves you intrigued to visit and once there, longing to return.  The word Africa could have actually originated in Tunisia. Africa is traced back to potentially a Roman word, meaning one theory is that the Romans were credited with formally naming the continent. They may have used the “land of Afri” to describe the northern region. During the time, the capital was Carthage, which is now modern day Tunisia.…