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The below guide has been written based on our experiences of touring Tunisia by motorhome and will hopefully give you a good idea of what it’s like to travel there. However, things do change, so before you set off it’s worth checking for up to date travel information from the Foreign Office website<\/a>, and the latest driving regulations on the AA website<\/a>. At the bottom of the guide we’ve added links to our daily updates while we were in Tunisia, so you can live the adventure with us.<\/p>\n

General Information<\/h3>\n

Country<\/strong> – Tunisia
\nCapital city<\/strong> – Tunis, 1400 miles from Dover
\nCurrency<\/strong> – Tunisian Dinar
\nLanguages<\/strong> – Arabic, many people also speak French, younger people also speak English
\nVisa requirements<\/strong> – EU citizens can stay for up to three months without a visa.
\nBorders<\/strong> – Land borders with Libya and Algeria. Most ferries arrive in Tunis from Southern France, Italy & Sicily.
\nTelephone country code<\/strong> – 216
\nEmergency numbers<\/strong> – 190 Ambulance, 193 National Guard, 197 Police, 198 Fire<\/p>\n

Our visits<\/h3>\n

January – March 2013
\n<\/strong>Duration<\/strong> – 49 days
\nRoute<\/strong> – Anticlockwise from Tunis. Across the north coast to Tabarka, then south, nipping east to Oued Zarga before continuing south to Tozeur, Douz and Ksar Ghuilane. Then north to Matmata, Metameur and south to Tataouine. Finally north to Metameur again then over to the island of Jerba before following the coast north back to Tunis, nipping inland to see El Jem and Kairouan.
\nOur 2012 Motorhome Tour.<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span>
\nMiles driven<\/strong> – 2008
\nAverage daily spend<\/strong> – \u20ac37.36 (\u20ac25.61 if you don’t include the ferry and insurance costs)
\nAverage spend on overnight stops<\/strong> – \u20ac6.80 (5 free nights = 4 wild camping, 1 free aires, 44 paid nights – 30 guarded\/youth hostel\/hotel car parks and 14 at campsites)<\/p>\n

Costs<\/h3>\n

Diesel
\n<\/strong>Diesel  is a fixed price at all of the ‘official’ service stations, by official we mean Shell, Agil, OilLibya, Q8 etc – all looking like the stations back in the UK. When we went this was 1.090TD (\u20ac0.52) per litre (diesel 50 was 1.300TD and petrol 1.470TD) – so unless you’re driving across from Libya, arrive with an empty tank.<\/p>\n

There are also many, many unofficial stations selling diesel and petrol brought in from Libya where it is even cheaper. The unofficial stations range from plastic cartons of liquid stacked high by the roadside with a half drum on a stand and a hose running from it (occasionally with a bloke smoking in the middle of it all), to an old fashioned style pump outside a small shop. Some display prices, though usually what they are selling is written in Arabic. As the official petrol stations were so cheap for us we chose not to use any of the unofficial ones – although we saw many locals who did.<\/p>\n

LPG
\n<\/strong>LPG prices are also fixed, when we were there it was 0.659TD (\u20ac0.35) per litre. The stations selling it were usually in the main towns on the outskirts, often Agil or Total branded. However don’t leave it until your tanks are almost empty, we tried to fill up our empty tank on our last day only to find the only station in Tunis selling LPG had run out and the delivery van hadn’t turned up.<\/p>\n

Eating out
\n<\/strong>Eating out was very cheap, although the choice was often limited. <\/span><\/p>\n