Sfax is the second town in Tunisia. It is known by a heavy industrial activity. Its harbour, the most influential in the country, is meant to send in transit all kinds of goods destined to export: Cereals, phosphates, olive oil and salt. Around the harbour, restaurants-fish speciality-offer unforgettable souvenirs to the palace... There, fish is cooked in the safaxian way...spicy and flavoured, what a delight!

Olive tree orchards are at the heart of the region's reputation. Thousands of olive tree bases cover the grounds as far as the eye can see and oil is there so pure and so rich that it made the farmers who take care to press it proud.

Being the town of business, Sfax does not lack thereby charm. It emanate from its Medina an authentic atmosphere not much effected by tourism. There we find one of the most beautiful minaret of the country and fascinating museum: The Regional Museum of Arts and Popular Traditions, Dar Jellouli. Sfax is also the boarding harbour for Kerkenah islands.

Kerkenah islands, located at 20 Km of Sfax, appear to spring up from the sea. They are fame of water sports and fishing. The islands' nature offers to people the opportunity to practice a particular kind of fishing there: The fish fall down again, pushed by the fishermen who blow the sea surface with sticks, upon palm trellis. Within Kerkenah islands, fishermen use also particular technique to fish octopus. They plunge in the sea fastened amphora to floats within which the octopus take refuge to be captured there afterwards. Sponge fishing, whose production is considerable , is another kind of fishing activity at kerkenah. But what makes from now on the fame of these islands is its folkloric sets which are unique in their fashion..

* Source National Office of Tunisian Tourism