Return visit to HAMMAMET

Bay of Hammamet

Some places seem to be endowed by a magnet effect. You don't really know why, but they keep attracting you over and over again. Hammamet stigmatizes this type of attraction at least on me!

It is difficult to tell exactly why it is so. It is mainly a feeling of being there, happy to walk around, and revisiting places you have been to on many other occasions. I guess it is a combination of sensations, which are in keeping with your sensibility. Coming from Tunis, very often, the climate is different: often sunnier and slightly milder. Hammamet is facing the East and therefore is fully blessed with the Mediterranean influence. Its wide bay provides a 180º view that offers sunrises as well as sunsets. And sunsets are particularly scenic here. No need to go far: the downtown promenade offers an ideal viewpoint. So much so that visitors, as well as locals, come here in the evening to watch the setting sun! Some more, this area offers benches or a vast area to walk leisurely. The small sandy beach there provides a natural anchorage for the many fishing boats. There are also cafés and restaurants along this promenade. And Hammamet is a place where eating fish is a pleasurable must. That's not all! The old medina is there too. Behind the high walls of the Turkish Fort, the old, traditional city offers a maze of wonderful alleys so clean and so colorful that you get thrilled with the atmosphere.

Of course, Hammamet is also a large, modern city as well as a fashionable seaside resort with many hotels. But it still keeps a specific atmosphere,  particularly if you are there off-season. Yet, this particular blend of urbanity and natural environment might be the essence of what makes Hammamet so special.

Christian Sorand

One of the seaside resorts

On the beach under the sun

An old town section

A private home in an alley

Outside a bookshop

Inside the same bookshop

Typical white & blue Tunisian architecture

Sunset on the seaside promenade

The medina walls 

Hammamet Bay at sunset

The Fort walls at night

One evening on the seafront promenade

Typical Tunisian dinner

The old fishing beach of Hammamet

An evening sky on the bay

Sunset on the Bay of Hammamet