Незабываемый отдых Unforgettable vacation

We rested in Marabout from 07 to 18 August 2008 with my husband and daughter 4 years old. The ticket was provided by the Express Tour travel agency. Score 5 points, starting with Pulkovo 2 and ending with Pulkovo 2. We flew with Karthago Air, Boeing-737, the plane is certainly not new, but the appearance of the plane is the most important thing... They fed purely national cuisine, by the way, you will be offered food similar in taste in hotels and on excursions, if you don’t liked…. Alas. We were in Sousse at 8 o'clock in the morning, we had to meet with a representative of the company (the name is Yana, a very sweet, kind girl) the next morning, so we settled in the hotel ourselves.
Friends, Tunisia is a country that has a second national language - French, so you don’t have to swear at the reception that they don’t understand you, it’s enough to use a Russian-French phrase book, or even bad English, and you don’t need to put dollars in your passport in order to you were settled in a room with a sea view, the money can be returned and given a room without a balcony, overlooking the road. We also got the room closest to the sea on the 1st floor, overlooking a cozy, quiet courtyard. The room was cleaned and the towel changed every day, regardless of whether we left a tip or not. Sun loungers by the pools and on the beach are paid - 2 dinars per day ($ 1 -1.15 dinars). The water park for the whole period is 20dinars, but it's worth it. Marabout is a 3* hotel, the best of 3* on the whole coast,
including only breakfast and dinner, fed us very well

(fish, chicken, duck, lamb, beef and even pork, a variety of salads, pastries, fruits), I don’t know what other mothers fed tiny children (spicy food), but my daughter ate corn flakes with milk and vermicelli and potatoes. You can’t take food out of the restaurant, this is not the administration’s nonsense, this is Africa, these are insects, which are then difficult to remove. At the exit of the restaurant there is a FSB officer (we called him that), who can ask you to open a beach bag, and only Russians are asked and only Russians are taken out, they are fined in front of everyone, and they take out and take out. My friends, let's respect the traditions of another country and follow the rules of this country, and we will someday be respected. In the evening we were entertained by animators (young boys tried their best). Every day there was a different program: Mrs. Marabou, Mr. Marabou, transvestite shows, variety shows, etc. , for the kids "national disco". Now about the sea and the beach. I have never seen such clean, white sand either in Bulgaria or Turkey). The sea was calm and emerald green, clean and stormy at times so that it was difficult to enter the sea. Do not believe those tour operators who will assure you that there are no jellyfish in Tunisia. There are jellyfish, and in August they have a mating season, so when they meet you, they sting painfully, but not fatally (I checked it for myself). In the evening we went to the port with a visit to the amusement park - our "Diva Island", in the afternoon we walked to the "Medina" - the old city with a local market, where you can bargain for any product twice or even three times cheaper than the initial price. Now about excursions: to be in Tunisia and not visit sugar means not to be in Tunisia, not to find out how exotic, many-sided this country is. Our guide for these two unforgettable days was Hafed, together with him we visited the ancient Colosseum, visited the cave dwellers-traglodytes, with him we saw the sunset on camels and met the dawn on jeeps, flew on a hang glider, were "participants of star wars", saw the skeleton of a giant whale that got lost in the seas many years ago, ate cacti and dates, he told us about the culture and traditions of Tunisia, a country that was the only one of all African countries that banned the harem and gave independence to African women. We were on the tour "Zulu Evening" with a visit to the national animal park and a restaurant with local drinks, national dances and songs, playing the tam-tam. It is a pity that we did not have time to visit the capital of the country - Tunisia, Carthage, but this is even for the better, there will be something to see when we come back to this wonderful country. See you soon, Tunisia.