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Hammamet is the most popular resort in Tunisia and with good reason, it has great beaches and is ideal for swimming also the locals are very friendly and are mainly muslim but they are very liberal and they welcome tourists and the town is very popular with people from all over the world.

The town of Hammamet is on the peninsula of Cap Bon and is a short taxi ride from the administrative capital of Tunisia which is Nabeul, sometimes the president of Tunisia Zine El Abidine Ben Ali spends his holidays there, the population is around 40,000 people and in high season there can be up to 80,000 tourists, but don’t let that put you off at all because it just adds a bit more of a cosmopolitan feel to the area.

Hammamet consists of Hammamet nord (north) Hammamet sud (south) and a little further to the south is Yasmine Hammamet which is fast turning into a tourist resort in its own right, the area is well known for pottery, leather, jasmine and jade and you will have no problems finding people who want to sell it to you, there are lots of shops in the town and even more in the Medina.

The Medina is the old walled town in the centre of Hammamet (most towns have their own medina) the medina is full of stalls and shops and you must never pay the price that you are first quoted, the stallholders expect you to haggle and they take great pride in it themselves, sometimes they will pull up a chair and offer you some tea to settle down for some real haggling, expect to pay about a quarter of the initial asking price, sometimes even less.