Dubai

Dubai is the most populous of the United Arab Emirates (across the federal capital Abu Dhabi). Located on the Persian Gulf, it is capital of the emirate of Dubai, and has over one million inhabitants (however, with the cities of Sharjah, Ajman and Umm Al Quwain, themselves capitals of their respective emirates it forms a metropolitan area exceeding 2.3 million in 2010). Dubai is also the largest port in the country.

Founded in the eighteenth century, Dubai remains a modest and isolated town in the world that lives mainly pearl diving in the late nineteenth century. At that time, as the emirate surroundings, they become important in participating in the creation of the Trucial States (Trucial States in English) in 1853.
Through a difficult period during the inter-war years, before entering the full force of modernity in the second half of the twentieth century, Dubai participated in the creation of the current UAE in 1971 with the emir is vice -présidence.

Although not the capital of the United Arab Emirates, Dubai has become the most famous city of the federation.
This reputation is largely due to the media coverage of its tourism projects such as the Burj Al Arab, the most luxurious and the most "star" of the world, the gigantic building projects like the Palm Islands, artificial peninsula shaped palm, the World, an artificial archipelago that replicates the map of the world, the Dubai Marina and disproportionate to the particular architecture, not to mention the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa.

These projects claimed by the government, are presented as a way to become in a few years the world's top destination for luxury tourism and become one of the world centers of family tourism, business, shopping, etc.

Pamukkale

Pamukkale ("cotton castle" in turc1) or Pamukale is a natural site and attraction in Turkey consists of sources forming a tufa. It is registered at UNESCO since 1988 together with Hierapolis on the World Heritage List of UNESCO. A city of the same name is nearby. This is the eighth wonder of the world.

Medical tourism Tunisia

Medical tourism Tunisia is a new category of world tourism. This is indeed the result of a strong professional collaboration between Tunisian medical facilities and tour operators specializing in the field.

Medical tourism Tunisia's aim is to ensure that foreign patients with the best medical care quality and cost.

The number of foreign patients who receive the benefits of medical tourism Tunisia is increasing from one year to another this is due to the quality of services provided by medical institutions including multidisciplinary clinics.

Specialist medical tourism Tunisia SOUKRA Clinic's mission is to support all patient carefully within its competence by giving it the best care for his health and at his request.

Being one of the references in medical tourism Tunisia, our school's goal is the achievement of optimal quality care.

This shared by all employees objective is based on a dynamic based on a participatory approach and the recognition of skills.

For more information on medical tourism Tunisia, please contact us contact@clinique-soukra.com

Tozeur - The Oases in the desert of the Sahara

Tozeur (توزر) is a city in Tunisia Jerid and the capital of the governorate of the same name. It has 32,400 inhabitants according to the census of 20,042. 

Located northwest of Chott el Jerid, it is 450 kilometers southwest of Tunis. This is one of the oases in the desert of the Sahara. Tozeur is a city with a rich religious history and known for its contemporary scholars as topography dotted with marabouts, attests.

Among the features of Tozeur, we find primo Oasis Tozeur which is characterized by the palm, which contains about 400,000 trees. Secondo, there is the Museum of Arts and Traditions of Tozeur (museum Dar Cheraït) characterized by small older homes that contain all the components of the Tunisian bourgeois traditions. 

Tercio, travelers can visit the market Tozeur which is characterized by its products of the palm. He can visit the weekly market on Thursday Nafta, the weekly market in Tozeur on Sunday and that of Tameghza Friday.

The Maldives

The Maldives - Paradise of luxury and nature

At the heart of the Indian Ocean, the Maldives between blue skies and turquoise water proved a paradise. Everything is green and quiet luxury that invites you to relax.

Discovery ...
The plane begins its descent to the Maldives, and now, a few minutes before landing, through the window striking palette contrasts observed between extreme deep blue and green and turquoise water.

The aircraft touched down gently on the runway ... Time to retrieve his luggage on the carpet from Male airport to the boat that takes you to the island you choose, there is only one step.


An exceptional environment ...
On leaving the airport, a man holding a sign with your name leads you in two minutes to a dock where the yachts are moored which carry you to your hotel as a billionaire.

Seized by the heat that already prevails at 8am, you're in for a boat trip which can vary depending on the distance from the airport to your resort, between 20 minutes and 1 hour 30 Soon, you leave behind the capital Malé and the many cargo ships that dock nearby. Then we enter a world where thousands of colorful fish undulate.

This is stunning, you feel the Maldives carry the passenger on one of the last paradises on earth. The destination attracts a growing tourism but retains a unique environment due to the vigilance of the Maldivian state in ecology and the hotel groups.

Reasoned tourism ...
The mild climate, beautiful landscapes, lagoons, underwater that have flora and fauna unmatched allowed the development of tourism since the 1980s ... but reasoned. The government authorized the construction of the hotels on deserted islands.

In the Maldives, there are 1,200 islands with a hundred dedicated to tourism. Raising consecutive waters to global warming is a particularly serious threat to this small country whose highest point is less than three meters. Ten islands play the card of ultimate luxury on the concept: an island hotel.

Suddenly, our eyes are drawn to houses on stilts and a sandbar.
Here we are, we live a daydream. Nothing is missing from the postcard. Restaurants on stilts. Near the pier stands the dive center, and on the dock with some combination of them tanned and flippers are going to rave about the seabed.


Exploration lagoons, fine hotels ...
Time to drink a welcome drink ... and we discover with pleasure his home on the water. A real house with a living room, a bedroom, a large bathroom, an outdoor shower and a private plunge pool on the terrace.

To eat is spoiled for choice. Buffets found the internationally themed dishes Japanese, Chinese, Thai ... In the evening, we take our dinner on the beach, candlelight. Nothing is missing on the map, fine food whose ingredients came across this little piece of land it is unclear how. It serves meats, seafood, accompanied by a good Australian wine, South African, Italian or French local fish.

There is still an activity in which it is impossible to derogate: massage. A must for the Spa which is generally suspended above the water. What to choose, one is spoiled for choice, it becomes an exercise in high concentration: moderate Thai, a deep massage, ayurvedic or shiatsu.

You can not design a stay in the Maldives to try diving. Baptisms for amateurs prepare with an instructor who teaches blow, removing the mask in water, change of regulator. It requires some attention but quickly becomes autonomous.

And we take a boat that takes you to a special place. In less than ten minutes, you end up in the ocean. But it is also easy to observe wildlife and marine life so exceptional practicing "snorkeling" with mask, fins, snorkel. On the surface of the water, moves with small sharks, manta rays, some moray eels, starfish, turtles, striped, go-getters, madmen, placid ... Man and fish coexist perfectly, they seem to have fun with you.

Come on, go ahead, don the role of Robinson Crusoe in the heart of islands and lagoons so well preserved.

History of Maldives

PRACTICE

Maldives_1.jpgL'archipel Maldives is more than 650 miles southwest of Sri Lanka, off the Indian coast. It extends over 820 km from north to south and 120 km from east to west.

Male, the capital account of 2 100 000 square kilometers, or one-third of the country's population.

Maldives span an area: 298,000 km2, comprising 200 islands inhabited 1,190, grouped into 19 units (or "administrative atolls").

- Climate:
The climate is tropical with a weak monsoon from May to September. Temperatures range between 26 ° C and 32 ° C throughout the year. The water temperature varies between 27 and 29 ° C throughout the year.
Ideally, stay focus on the period from January to April because are the driest.

- Note:
When it is noon in France, it is 15 pm in the Maldives in the summer and 16 hours in winter. Feature: each island can choose their hours compared to Male.

- Currency:
Maldivian rupee, or Maldivian Rufiya, but the dollar used to pay for everything.

- Formalities:
Being in possession of a passport valid for six months after the end of the stay.

- Guide:
"Maldives", Ed. Lonely Planet. Well documented.

The Seaside Tourism

The Seaside Tourism 

The generosity of the shores of Neptune 
Tunisian coasts offer a friendly environment and varied to relax or get away. 

Like a ship's prow, Tunisia splits the Mediterranean to the northern tip of Africa. Scalloped beaches along which totaled agglomerations holiday dedicated to the Tunisian coasts offer a friendly environment to relax and varied, partying with friends or get away. With over 1,300 km of coastline, 600 beaches, Tunisia offers a special setting for beach holidays. Nothing d'étonnant that hotels have flourished on its coastline, turning old fishing villages in fashionable resorts or creating vast leisure complex where there was only sand in the eye. Djerba in Tabarka, the coastal landscape was modeled as a function of the increasing influx of tourists. 

Currently, more than 7 million tourists who visit Tunisia each year, or the equivalent of half the population. Varied, the accommodation ranges from simple residential hotel to five-star luxury establishment, through clubs and apartments in timeshare. This allows everyone to find an address corresponding to their wishes, that one is fond of water sports, fitness or lounging on the beach. 
Based on its history and development, each resort offers a specific face. In Djerba for example, hotels are trying to replicate the architecture of the villages of the island by focusing on low with rounded structures. These are the famous menzels that still there are few, were the only buildings djerbiens. These vaulted roofs with square or domed houses display walls in dazzling white. Traditionally, the only opening of the houses is made by the door, but sometimes there are also protected by grills d'étroites windows. Of course, hotels have adapted this somewhat austere architecture wishes Reviews: large windows, balconies or terraces mostly on green islands. And so-called first position establishments are feet in the water at the edge of neatly manicured beaches.


by - bonjour-tunisie.com

Sfax "the second city and economic center of Tunisia"

The history of Sfax

Sfax, the second city and economic center of Tunisia, is a port city in the east located approximately 270 kilometers from Tunis. Rich in its industries and its port, the city plays an important economic role with the export of olive oil and fresh or frozen fish. Sfax is a business city and attracts few tourists. This does not exclude the presence of some interesting sites, such as the Medina and Thyna, despite the presence of processing plants phosphate.Sfax has 265 131 inhabitants (for an urban area, the Grand Sfax, about 500 000) and presents itself as a very large urban area (220 square kilometers or as much as the Greater Tunis with four times the population), flat and within a structured communication routes spiderweb urban fabric. It is bordered on the east by the Mediterranean Sea and the beginning of the Gulf of Gabes.

Sfax: History 

Sfax, ancient Berber Syphax and the Roman Taparura result is rebuilt by the Aghlabides the ninth century from the materials of the ancient Roman town about three kilometers. They build the walls that give the medina its current configuration. The city must resist the Hilali from Egypt in 1057 and from 1095 to 1099, it is a small independent emirate. 
It passes, like most coastal towns, under the rule of Prince Norman Roger of Sicily in 1148 before being reinstated in the Muslim sphere by the Almohad Abd al-Mumin in 1159. 
Representing decision of Sfax in 1881 
Sfax knows the revolt of Ali Ben Ghdahem in 1864 opposing the Bey of Tunis, which took place during a pogrom [ref. needed], and that of 1881 to deny French protectorate. The French troops are forced to bombard to overcome. 
It also bombed by the Allies during the Tunisian campaign (World War II) when it is occupied by the Axis powers in 1942-1943. Sfax is the city illustrate two major national independence activists murdered by the colonial terrorist organization Red Hand: unionist Farhat Hached (native of the archipelago of Kerkennah) who was shot Dec. 5, 1952 and is responsible Hedi Chaker Destour who was killed Sept. 13, 1953. 

Sfax: Culture 

The Archaeological Museum of Sfax includes a collection of ancient archaeological finds in the city and nearby sites. It is located in the municipal building. 
The city had a municipal theater between 1903 and 1942 property built in a neo-Moorish architecture, in line with the seat of the municipality and the Ramdane palace was destroyed during the bombing Sfax experienced during the Tunisian campaign yet that targeted the commercial port farther south of the city. 
Sfax focuses the main educational institutions in southern Sahel: the University of Sfax and a major university teaching centers in the country. Among the best known of the city high schools include the School of Sfax driver. In 2007, the College of Sfax pilot opened. 

Sfax: Economy 

Sfax is the first commercial port of Tunisia in terms of traffic (2000) and the second in terms of value. The port has two features: it is one of the few places in the Mediterranean where the tidal range exceeds 1.50 and 2 meters and equinoxes, sheltered from onshore winds by Kerkennah islands and shoals in the Gulf Gabes mitigating the effects of waves, no pier or breakwater are needed. Despite the significant maritime trade with the rest of the country Kerkennahet, the port is reduced until 1886 to a mere wooden pier 50 meters long. An artificial harbor is dug in the sand and opened to traffic in 1891, but quickly makes it inadequate and a new port is dug phosphate mining. As in Tunis, dredging products are gaining ground on the sea Like all great Tunisian ports, Sfax asouffert during the Tunisian campaign.'s Afrika Korps destroyed a portion of the docks before retreating April 11, 1943 . fishing also occupies a prominent place in the regional economy, with a fleet of about 300 shrimp trawlers, 50 tuna seiners, 1,500 motor boats and sailing boats 2000. The city produces about 25,000 tonnes of fish per year, one-third of national output. Much of this fishery is exported abroad (10 000 tonnes) or 70% of Tunisian exports of products from the sea. 
The surrounding areas are in turn focus on agriculture as their main resource: six million olive trees and nearly five million almond trees, the governorate of Sfax is thus placed at the forefront of producing areas olive oil (38.5% with more than 200 000 tonnes) and almonds. Livestock are an equally important sector of the regional economy. With 340,000 sheep, 50,000 goats and about 30 000 cattle, the region also has a place in this area. A dairy industry has taken hold in the wake of this intensive farming and it totals 75,000 tonnes of milk per year. 
The industry is booming and statistics put the figure at 4,000 companies. Regarding the tourism sector, and it houses a twenty hotels of various standings. The city should know soon a revival in this area with the completion of the project Taparura launched on 6 April 2006 and intended to reconcile the city with its coastline.