The Cap Bon Peninsula is a very fertile area northeast of Tunis. Geologists think it might once have been connected with Sicily, a land link to Europe that has disappeared under the sea about 30,000 years ago. Cap Bon is a mayor tourist area, especially the beaches around Hammamet and Nabeul in the southeast.
Hammamet is a mayor tourist town, only in the middle winter it gets a Amore quiet. Hamammet is at the northern end of the Gulf of Hammamet. The city's old medina overlooks the great sand-beaches. You will find plenty of discos, restaurants and (tourist) shops. Because of all the tourists prices are quite high. The tourist office is on Ave Bourguiba and the railway station just a block away from that.
Nabeul is a mayor tourist town. You will be able to find some of the cheaper accommodation here, including a very good camping area. There are sandy beaches and a big market on Fridays. There are two bus-stations in Nabeul, a bus station for buses to Tunis and Hamammet is close to the center on Ave Habib Thameur. Buses and louages to Keliba and other places on the Cap Bon Peninsula leave from the eastern end of the main street, Ave Farhat Hached. The railway station is a few blocks towards the beach from the main street in the center of Nabeul.
Kelibia is a small fishing village and it is not as busy with tourists as Nabeul or Hamammet. There is a 16th century Spanish fort overlooking the harbor. The bus and louage station is in the town center, and a hydrofoil connection with Trapani in Italy runs from June to September.
About halfway in between Kelibia and El-Haouaria is the Carthaginian site of Kerkouane. It was founded in the 6th century BC and after less than 300 years it was destroyed by the Romans. Excavation started in 1962 and the most interesting findings are displayed in a museum. One of the best things to see in the museum is the 'Princess of Kerkouane,' a wooden sarcophagus cover carved in the shape of the goddess Astarte.
El-Haouaria is a small town lying beneath the mountainous tip of Cap Bon. It is very quiet, but there are some nice beaches (the best ones at Ras el-Drek). On the coast 3km (2mi) west of the town you will find the Roman Caves. A complex of yellow sandstone caves dug out by the Romans who discovered that the quality of the stone was much better at the bottom than on the surface. The Romans started digging the caves and much of the stone used to build Carthage comes from here, after the Romans people continued cutting stone out of the caves and we can see the result today.
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