Tunisia

Tunisia occupies a strange spot in the travel conversation: closer to Europe than Cancun is to New York, cheaper than Greece or southern Spain, and stacked with Roman ruins that would be mobbed with tour buses if they were in Italy instead — and yet it barely comes up when people plan a Mediterranean trip. That's the opportunity. A capital with a real medina and a Bardo Museum full of the best Roman mosaics anywhere, a blue-and-white cliffside village straight out of a postcard, a proper resort coastline, an island with its own airport and its own pace, and the actual Sahara desert (complete with real Star Wars filming locations) all within a country roughly the size of England.

This guide covers everything: where to go, how many days, when to fly, what it actually costs in USD, and the visa rule for your specific passport — not a generic one-size-fits-all answer. Written to be genuinely useful, and updated through the season.