Gabes Historical Tours: Top 5 Reviews & Recommendations
Planning your trip to Gabes and thinking about learning some history? Gabes, Tunisia, that area’s got a super history that goes back quite some time, and seeing it with a local is almost definitely the way to do it. After checking out tons of options, here are what I found to be the top 5 historical tours in Gabes that could be just what you’re looking for!
1. Gabes Medina Walking Tour
Walking through the Gabes Medina with a guide is really seeing Gabes at its heart. What’s super awesome is, you get to see the older part of town that goes way back. These tours often hit up the old markets (souks), spots that used to trade goods, and of course, some older building with stories. Your guide will talk a bit about why the Medina is important to Gabes and fill you in on lots of the local traditions too.
These walking tours normally take maybe two or three hours, very doable, and I think you get way closer to local culture than just walking around on your own. Very helpful that is.
2. Roman Gabes Exploration Tour
Gabes? Big with the Romans once! If that sounds cool to you, there’s this thing I saw, a Roman Gabes Exploration Tour. It will go a bit further into the Roman background in the region, stopping, as a matter of fact, at cool Roman digs and former colonies like, for example, Thysdrus. It has super structures from way back, now. Your guide could talk some too, about why Romans mattered around there. This tour could take a full day so make certain you are OK with being outside the area all day!
3. Oasis and Date Palm Tour
Yeah, so Gabes has some very cool oases and dates palm areas close by. On a tour like that, so, you are likely to find yourself going out and checking the areas that have a ton of those palms. They also usually explain just a little about why dates were a major crop in Gabes culture. Tours would tell stories about ancient watering ways and families who run these farmland areas.
Often these tours feel calm, peaceful really, compared to town tours, so keep that in mind. Seeing how people use to grow foods around the desert’s edge is sort of special. It’s often about four hours in length. Also, the dates often tend to be quite good!
4. World War II History Tour in Gabes
Here is one. Did you know the Gabes region even played a little spot in World War II? Seriously! This tour may give insights into key spots where events happened during the war as it made an impact in North Africa. Local experts or war history gurus might show you these spots, that they tell of a story of hard situations during those past times. A few stops could hit war cemeteries or war memorials. Tours like that make one wonder about what events have touched Gabes’ past; it gives things feels.
5. Berber Culture Tour from Gabes
One cool thing a Berber Culture Tour out of Gabes could get into is the customs and old life ways around Berber communities near Gabes. You might check out places to see the special Berber buildings and art styles. It is often very colorful. As a matter of fact, the person running it could tell you how these Berber people hold onto long practiced ideas or routines, their old clothes they make themselves, and their different handcraft type work. It really is a nice look at history meeting day-to-day happenings still, too. So cool, really.
