Tunisia Travel Podcast with Rania Ben Salah

Tunisia Travel Podcast with Rania Ben Salah is a series about moving through the country slowly, with attention to how the Mediterranean location, long imperial history, and shifting terrain shape daily life. The landscape runs from the northern mountains to the hot central plain and the semiarid south merging into the Sahara, so journeys become changes in climate as much as distance. She starts in Tunis, the capital, then travels to Ain Draham in the northern mountains, crosses the central plain around Kairouan, and reaches the oasis town of Tozeur on the edge of the Sahara. Each place changes the texture of the show: city streets, forest trails, olive plains, desert palm groves. Over a couple of years, the show settles in a place, returns to it through different seasons, and eventually moves on to somewhere connected. The northern mountains become familiar through winter rain and summer dryness, the central plain through its heat, and the Sahara through wind and shifting dust. Rania Ben Salah lives in Tunisia and stays for two years, moving between cities, coastlines and smaller towns on a route that follows the seasons. Not a week-long visit — Rania is there in every kind of weather, working out where to eat on an ordinary Tuesday, which train to take, what a festival actually feels like from the pavement. A new episode arrives every day. Each one is short and specific: one neighbourhood, one journey, one meal, one museum worth the detour — with the practical detail that matters. What it costs. When it closes. Whether the queue is worth it. What to do when it rains. Every episode carries a full transcript and chapter markers. ☕ Enjoying the show? These episodes are free and stay that way because listeners chip in — if a coffee's worth it, support the journey: buymeacoffee.com/paris2tokyo Part of Paris2Tokyo — one show for each of the world's hundred most-visited countries. Made for travelers, wherever you are going next. #Tunisia #TunisiaTravel #NorthAfrica #Tunis #TravelPodcast #Travel #Paris2Tokyo https://www.paris2tokyo.com/podcasts/tunisia/

  1. Oct 18

    Matmata pit houses and the October olive harvest

    Rania settles into day two in Matmata, navigating the divide between Old and New Matmata, exploring the troglodyte architecture, and tasting local street food while discussing the logistics of living in the Dahar escarpment. ☕ Enjoying the show? Help keep every episode free — buymeacoffee.com/paris2tokyo Plan your trip to Tunisia: eSIM & data · Tours & tickets · Airport transfers · Car rental · Travel insurance · Hotels & full Tunisia guide → Some links are affiliate links. Episode 79 of Tunisia Travel Podcast with Rania Ben Salah. Rania Ben Salah is in Matmata, Tunisia. Places in this episode: Matmata Ancienne, Matmata Nouvelle, Ksour Troglodyte Museum, Hôtel Sidi Driss, Café Berbere, Resturant Chez Abdoul, MATMATA RESTAURANT LES TROGLODYTES, Dar Khadija Museum. Covered: Matmata geography and districts, troglodyte architecture and history, local food prices and cuisine, residency bureaucracy and banking, olive harvest and Amazigh culture, transport logistics louage and buses. Chapters:00:00 Toujane02:28 Café Berbere05:23 Resturant Chez Abdoul08:24 Dar Khadija Museum11:09 Tamezret A full transcript of this episode is available in supported apps. #Matmata #TunisiaTravel #TroglodyteLife #AmazighCulture #OliveHarvest #StarWarsLocations #NorthAfrica #BudgetTravel #ResidencyVisa #LouageTransport #CaveHotels #DaharMountains #GabesGovernorate #LocalFood #TunisianHistory #SlowTravel #AutumnInTunisia #MatmataAncienne https://www.paris2tokyo.com/podcasts/tunisia/

    Matmata pit houses and the October olive harvest

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Tunisia Travel Podcast with Rania Ben Salah is a series about moving through the country slowly, with attention to how the Mediterranean location, long imperial history, and shifting terrain shape daily life. The landscape runs from the northern mountains to the hot central plain and the semiarid south merging into the Sahara, so journeys become changes in climate as much as distance. She starts in Tunis, the capital, then travels to Ain Draham in the northern mountains, crosses the central plain around Kairouan, and reaches the oasis town of Tozeur on the edge of the Sahara. Each place changes the texture of the show: city streets, forest trails, olive plains, desert palm groves. Over a couple of years, the show settles in a place, returns to it through different seasons, and eventually moves on to somewhere connected. The northern mountains become familiar through winter rain and summer dryness, the central plain through its heat, and the Sahara through wind and shifting dust. Rania Ben Salah lives in Tunisia and stays for two years, moving between cities, coastlines and smaller towns on a route that follows the seasons. Not a week-long visit — Rania is there in every kind of weather, working out where to eat on an ordinary Tuesday, which train to take, what a festival actually feels like from the pavement. A new episode arrives every day. Each one is short and specific: one neighbourhood, one journey, one meal, one museum worth the detour — with the practical detail that matters. What it costs. When it closes. Whether the queue is worth it. What to do when it rains. Every episode carries a full transcript and chapter markers. ☕ Enjoying the show? These episodes are free and stay that way because listeners chip in — if a coffee's worth it, support the journey: buymeacoffee.com/paris2tokyo Part of Paris2Tokyo — one show for each of the world's hundred most-visited countries. Made for travelers, wherever you are going next. #Tunisia #TunisiaTravel #NorthAfrica #Tunis #TravelPodcast #Travel #Paris2Tokyo https://www.paris2tokyo.com/podcasts/tunisia/

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