Kairouan until now very interested in the tourists from abroad. However, a special tourist in the city are cultural tourists or archaeologists. Most tourists visit Kairouan with tourist buses coming from the tourist town of Sousse or City Hamamet. The distance between Kairouan and Souse is only about 50 miles, while between Kairouan and Hamamet about 100 kilometers.
The tourists usually spend a day in the city of Kairouan by visiting historic places, especially Mosque Uqba ibn Nafi. Most of the tourists who are interested in visiting Kairouan come from Europe and Japan who had read about the history of that city before. Kairouan is known is a blend between the City of Damascus and Marrakesh, Morocco.
Mosque of Kairouan is the existence of Excellence Uqba ibn Nafi a very popular and histroris. The mosque is the largest and most important old mosque in Tunisia and the African Continent. From the city with mosques, Islam had spread to the starting point of the African continent, the Islands of Sicily and southern Italy. Meanwhile, Tareq bin Ziyad soldiers left from Kairouan to Andalusia (Spain now)
The particular combination of Kairouan is presenting a panorama heritage and modernity. Turkish fort with the original building model (shape of the fort buildings), for example, now used as five-star hotel with all sorts of modern amenities, such as swimming pools, restaurants, and rooms are beautiful.
Do not forget, anyone who visits the City or another city Kairouan in Tunisia, try to eat possum (typical Tunisian food) mixed with meat and milk while enjoying shrewdness Kairouan citizens on horseback and enjoy the game acrobatic.
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