Beaches in Tunisia

Twelve hundred kilometres of Mediterranean coast, from the mountainous and green north through the resort beaches of Hammamet and Sousse to the shallow Gulf of Gabès in the south, where the tidal range is the largest in the Mediterranean and the water goes out far enough to walk. Djerba in the south-east has the long warm beaches, a flamingo lagoon and the longest continuous Jewish presence in Africa, with the El Ghriba synagogue on the island. The north around Tabarka and Cap Serrat is cooler, cleaner and barely developed, with cork oak forest behind coves that see almost no visitors, and the Cap Bon peninsula sits between the two coasts with a beach on each side. Carthage and the blue-and-white village of Sidi Bou Saïd are within half an hour of Tunis and its beaches, and Roman sites stand on the sand at several points along the Sahel. The country's tourism fell sharply after attacks in 2015 and has recovered partially. Practically: the season runs April to October and is long by Mediterranean standards, the water in the south is very warm and very shallow, prices are low, and the large hotels are concentrated at Hammamet, Sousse and Djerba rather than spread along the coast.

The two are different kinds of shore. The sand is golden sand throughout, and both sit on sheltered water. Together they account for 19 km of shore. · computed from the 2 records below