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Jerba
Island
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Djerba la Douce
Located at the
Tunisian south, Jerba island (s' writing also
Jerba) is famous since antiquity.
Sublimated by its
charm, Homère dedicated its poems to him.
Ulysses, who made stopover there, failed not
to continue his voyage, so much it was filled
with wonder by his shores.
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The island
is only 25 km long on 20 km broad. Its surface
is punt and its vegetation is almost absent,
except palm trees and some olive groves. Don't
forget we that are on the level of the Saharan
desert.
Plan
of hotels establishment
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But d' where
does it hold this charm?
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Undoubtedly
from its wild nature, from the softness of its
climate, summer like winter, from its
traditional architecture and its marvellous
beaches.
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Jerba does not count
less than 130 thousand inhabitants. Its capital
is Houmt Souk, known for its craft industry, its
jewellers and his fishing port.
Since the Sixties Jerba
became a tourist place privileged with a hundred
hotels, a golf, a casino and soon a marina.
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In the western south of
the island is Guellala, the village of the
potters. All its inhabitants devote to this
ancestral craft industry. Vases, gargoulettes,
jugs strew the ground, along the single
street. Some are of color clay and others are
bright whiteness. Do you know why?
They will explain you
why it is a business of the water. If the water
used with the salted clay it gives the
white color. If tje water is soft it gives the
color clay.
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At the southern
periphery of Houmt Souk is Ghriba, a Jewish
temple of the Life front VI century before
J.C. It is the second high place of the
Judaism in the world. It is also a place of
pilgrimage. Indeed, in May the Jews,
especially originating of Maghreb, come there
to collect.
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PRACTICAL
INFORMATIONS
International
airport Djerba-Zarzis
Tel :75 650 233
Tunisair
Tel :75 650 586 -
75 650 159
Bus Station Houmt-Souk
Tel : 75 650 076
Taxis Inter Cities
Station gare routière
Tel :75 650 475
Taxis
Tel : 75
650 475
Regional
Tourism Local Organisation
Avenue de l' environnement
Tél. : 75 650 016 - 75 650 544
National office
of craft industry
Avenue Habib Bourguiba
Tel : 75 650 146
Djerba
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