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Article: Tune into Tunisia's mosques, medinas and rich landscape.
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- The Boston Herald
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- April 26, 1998
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Tiny Tunisia, inhabited by native Berber tribes for thousands of years and conquered in turn by Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Arabs and the French, has a history as rich as its endless olive orchards, lush oases and crystal-blue sea.
Sandwiched between larger and less inviting nations - Algeria and Libya - Tunisia may seem like a forbidding, faraway place. But it becomes an easily reached destination when you take the hourlong flight from Rome to Tunis. You can rent a car at the airport, drop your bags at a hotel, and in no time you will be roaming about that quintessential North African locale, the medina.
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