“Johnny ‘crackers’ Knoxville” – Chris Bilsland. The Time I Was In A Country For 3 Days But Had A Passport Stamp In And Out On The Same Day! This has to be a nuts one. Doesn’t it? I arrived back in Tunis, Tunisia in December 2024 in what was an absolutely sentimental return…you see I…
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Backpacking In Tunisia 🇹🇳: A Sentimental Return To Where Backpacking Centurion Was Accomplished, 100 to 227 “Never go back they tell you, it’s something you can’t do. But I must go there till I find out where it is I’m going to” – Highly Likely. My Christmas 2024 trip meant a coincidental random fluke return…
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Tunisia was the location I chose for my 100th real life backpacking country. Tunisia was kind of the easy way out which I felt after the crazy first 99 countries, was what we needed. I didn’t want to stress over visas in such a short time frame after hitting up country 99 with Norway. I…
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I’ll continue to type up the rest of my posts from Tunisia, despite the fact that in all honesty it is a dirty, over-rated and disorganised nation. So much so that our friends there and our couchsurfing hosts also admit that, and they dream of escaping their native land to earn money abroad. We toured…
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On my 100th country journey through Tunisia, we aimed to check out a few of the popular places as well as a few of the unknown spots. This led us to obvious backpacking resorts like Tunis, Carthage and Kairouan. However we also made it to Mahdia, Sousse, Teboulba and Monastir. But it was the colour…
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To celebrate my 100th country I toured the north African country of Tunisia. We started off in the capital city of Tunis, where we flew into. We stayed in a few different parts of the city including with Ayoub and Dhia also toured Carthage and Sidi Bou Said, which are slightly further north. To get…
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I had a crazy time in Tunisia celebrating my 100th country as I was Couchsurfing for the first time ever and our third host on this journey was Dhia. Previously we had stayed with Ayoub in Olympic City and Wicem down on the coast at Teboulba, but now we were back in Tunis just before…
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In my time celebrating my 100th country in Tunisia we mostly toured towns and cities by the sea. That all changed when we backpacked our way inland to the town of Kairouan. Kairouan is deemed the fourth most holy city in the Islamic world and it’s a maze of mosques in a city that reminded…
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My 100th country odyssey continued as we headed on a train south out of Tunis, Tunisia’s capital city. We were heading for the coastal town of Monastir and were pleasantly surprised. As well as being my 100th country, Tunisia was also the first place I decided to try couchsurfing. My girlfriend Panny had used it…
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We were delighted to be accepted to spend three nights with Wicem and family near the town of Teboulba on the east coast of Tunisia. For my 100th country celebration, we were couchsurfing in Tunisia, firstly with Ayoub in Tunis and then with Wicem in Teboulba. And Wicem’s place was more than just a bed…
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