Arriving in Tunisia: Your Journey from Malta

Leaving Malta behind, the crossing to Tunisia lands you on Africa's Mediterranean coast, with Tunis's skyline emerging after a longer open-water crossing. Once docked, the medina's souks and the Bardo Museum's Roman mosaics are essential first stops, while the nearby ruins of Carthage — once Rome's great rival — sit right on the coast a short drive from the city. Sidi Bou Said's blue-and-white cliffside village, a favourite with painters and photographers, makes an easy half-day trip further along the shore, and the Antonine Baths at Carthage give a good sense of the scale of Roman engineering.