FOUM TATAOUINE

Tataouine (also known as Foum Tataouine) is one of the most picturesque towns in southern Tunisia. Surrounded by mountains from which spring ksours, fortresses formerly used to shelter from the invaders, the essential commodities such cereals, olive oil, pulses ... it lives trade between the many villages that the surround. His souk of Monday and Thursday is one of the most picturesque of Tunisia.

Tataouine is also known for his colonial past when he housed the battalion of the Foreign Legion, a disciplinary camp known as the "bat of Af", also written "batdaf". The name Tataouine also evokes a distant and isolated place from where the ironic expression Tataouine-les-Bains.

Tataouine is a charming little town today. His market, bi-weekly from Monday and Thursday, is picturesque. There are beauty products such as henna, kohl, basketry, antique jewelry and especially beautiful weavings.

Tataouine is the door of the desert. in addition to visiting the Ksours around the city you can access the great South to visit Ksar Ghilane at the edge of the Oriental Erg.

 

Villagers in traditional clothes.

Ksar Ouled Soltane, the most beautiful of all ksars in southern Tunisia, located 20 km south of Tataouine.

The old Berber village of Douiret and its mosque, always well maintained

Village of Chénini, perched at the top of a hill with a magnificent view of the desert valley

TATAOUINE  HOTELS

CAT	HOTELS	Tel (216)
	Hôtel Sangho Tataouine  Site Web	75 86 01 02
	Hôtel Dakyanus  Site Web	75 83 21 99
	Hotel Mabrouk  Site Web	75 86 08 60