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In Tunis so it is accepted

This place, where 5  once a week the devout are going to for communal prayers. In a mosque also young men from nearby quarters study the Koran. In a mosque celebrate weddings and bead on the deceased. Some mosques are open for visitation of tourists, but it is necessary to put on decently.

Hammam in Tunis is a Turkish bath. In the Muslim world hammam it is designed for purification of the believer and its personal hygiene. Public function hammama - a place of meetings of friends and dialogue of Moslems. More often hammam it is had near to a mosque as before a collective pray purification is necessary. But hammam is also a beauty salon where it is possible to gain a massage session, to paint with henna a hair and a beard, to make a mask of clay with aromas. Men go there since a dawn before midday, women - since midday to a sunset.

Remember that in Tunis henna, as well as in all Muslim countries, paint a hair, nails, palms and base flanges of feet.

SHisha is at all hashish, and boiled leaves of a plant tombak. For their smoking of the man use nargile (the device of phylum of a hookah). Bars where it is authorised to smoke shishu, are noted by a light emblem with the image nargile.

Men, especially the woman do not wear open clothes in Tunis. Many women wear a veil, but young girls go in trousers with jackets, dinging Kashmir patterns.

In Tunis there is a tradition which is symbolical. Men (and only men) behind an ear wear a jasmin bunch of flowers. And  married wear it behind the right ear, and single behind the left. It is better to tourists than it not to do is will look it ridiculous.

In Tunis it is better not to abuse fresh fruit juice and an unusual local cuisine for a stomach, differently you risk to suffer with your stomach all your abiding in the country. Capture with itself necessarily your habitual stomachal means.

If you live in hotel with the air conditioner it is better to be reserved by means from a cold. After all in the street there is an awful heat, and in hotel in comparison with street very cool.