Tunisia:
tourist information about Nefta - Tozeur
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INFORMATIONS
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Nefta
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Access:
by road or air: comfortable buses make the shuttle between Tunis and Nefta, via Kairouan Gafsa and Tozeur. The departures of Tunis are with 13h00 and 21h00 and the returns to 9h00 and 23h00. The way of 490 km lasts 7 hours.
The international airport Tozeur - Nefta is to 2 km
of Tozeur and 22 km of Nefta. It is equipped with modern
infrastructures enabling him to accomodate any type of aircraft. You
will find flights direct towards Europe as well as local flights
towards Tunis.
 216.6.453.388
216.6.453.525
216.6.453.339
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Tourist office:
front Habib Bourguiba. It proposes
approved guides. The tariffs are moderated, also organizes stroll in
the barouche and on dromedary.
216.6.457.236.
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Post: front Bourguiba
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Change : in the banks, the post office and hotels. The rate is with approximately 1 dinar for 0.775$.
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Hospital:
street of the Martyrs.
216.6.457.193.
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Craft industry: center front formation
Bourguiba.
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Jérid Museum
(see plane).
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MAP OF JERID
zoom:
click above
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Tozeur-Nefta Airport
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Curiosities of Jérid
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Dar Chraït in Tozeur: complex sociocultural
- museum of civilizations Tunisian and art galleries
-3000 years of history: museum of the man in his and light
- Thousand and One Nights: amusement park its and light.
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The zoo of the desert
inside the palm plantation of
Tozeur: animals of the desert (lions of the atlas, ostriches,
gazelles, fennecs, jackals, dromedaries, reptiles, raptors etc.). It
has a paradisiac garden downwards to visit absolutely: palm trees,
banana trees, apricot trees, pêchers and all kind of flowers.
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The Red Lizard: it was formerly the royal train of
the Bey of Tunisia. Currently it is exploited to carry out an
excursion in the throats of Thalja in full mountain: between desert
and canyons one would believe oneself in a Western. The way
lasts 2 hours. The tariff is equivalent to
approximately 15$.
To get information at the Office of the Red Lizard with
Metlaoui:
(216).6.241.469, fax (216).6.241.604
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Falls of Tamerza:
oasis of mountain, water canyons
and falls in full desert. Eh well yes.
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Berber village of Chébika: located in blank of
mountain on the road of Tamerza, to 40 km of Tozeur, this
village which was formerly a Roman fortress, offers a splendid sight
on chott El-Gharsa. Oasis, small river and marine fossils amongst
other things.
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Chott Jérid and its mirages: desiccated sea, this
extent is wet the winter and the thin film of water on the surface,
makes think of a large lake. In summer the chott is desiccated and
overlaps with salt. By place, and mainly on the road between Degache and Kébili, the layer of salt is so dense that one would
believe oneself known a glacier. When the sirocco blows in gusts it
produces a phenomenon of mirages: the dwellings, under the effect of
the succession of draughts hot, seem to be driven and be reflected on the ground as on a mirror. But there are few
dwellings in the chott. IT is necessary to go to the marabout Sidi
Hassen Ayed, to 4 km of Nefta (see
plane), to
observe this phenomenon.
The chott it is also expatriation: there is nothing, neither animals, neither mosquitos, neither pollen, nor dust. But it y' always has silence and calms it to die about it.
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Touristic train The "Red
Lizard"
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Climate: dryness in any season, average temperature
jour/nuit: winter 20°/ 5°, be 38°/ 28°, precipitations lower than 100 mm/year.
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GSM: all the area is covered by the network.
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Holidays and sun:
the sun is beneficial but
some care are necessary:
- to cover the head
- to be refreshed regularly
- you do not walk twisted naked: the Bedouins get dressed
with wool winter like summer to keep the moisture of their body and to avoid dehydration.
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Historical gate
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This studded gate symbolizes the cohabitation which reigned during centuries, in these regions, between various communities. Its owner was a notable Moslem of Nefta. Its craftsman was a Jew of Nefta also.
The gate always exists and is to a hundred meters of the Souk .
It is enough to ask "Dar Ali Ben Larbi".
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Where to eat? Do not leave the area without taking
a meal at the restaurant
