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[Closed] Tunisia - anyone been?

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Looks like I might get to spend some time there with work sometime soon, so should I bother taking the bike? Google throws up lots of people riding around on dirt roads, but not the epic super techy singletrack I was hoping for 🙁


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 3:47 pm
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I went when I was three, my lasting memories are cutting my toe on a 7-up bottle, everyone getting a stomach bug, not leaving the resort after dark and being weed on by a lion.


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 3:53 pm
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No. It's flat and sandy, and you'll spend too much time on the crapper to think about anything other than your apparent impending death from squitting your insides out.


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 3:56 pm
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Although the Atlas Mountains to the North West do look a bit tasty.


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 3:57 pm
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Spent a bit of time in Tunis and Djerba, dusty horrible shite hole with not a lot to do, the only beer you could find tasted of olives, no wonder they are having a revolution....


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 4:14 pm
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Hmmmmmm doesn't sound promising, the Atlas mountains sound good, but more than a little drive away as I've a feeling I'll be somewhere around the southern end of the coast.

Sailing looks like it has potential though...............


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 5:00 pm
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The only way I'd go back to Tunisia is if it was a stopping flight. Hated it! Advised to not leave the resort, definately not at night.

Now if you had a choice I can thoroughly recommend Oman, lots of riding, big ex pat scene too.


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 5:16 pm
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like lummox said- not to put too finer point on it its a sh*thole, I'd rather have a week in work. Never have i seen so many unfinished buildings being looked at by groups of men smoking the bong.


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 5:23 pm
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Loads of times.

My mums family all come from La Marsa.. (about 20kms out of Tunis)

Never ridden out there.. But I reckon it could be fun.


 
Posted : 19/02/2011 6:07 pm

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