Kairouan - Medina Tours

The tourist information office is the best starting-point for a tour of the Medina in Kairouan. Here visitors must obtain tickets for admission to the principal sights including the Zaouia of Sidi Abid el Ghariani, the Sidi Oqba Mosque, the Aghlabid Basins and the Zaouia of Sidi Sahab. Although (as in other mosques in Tunisia) non-Moslems are not allowed to enter the prayer hall of the Sidi Oqba Mosque visitors should make a point of going into the beautiful inner courtyard (open daily, except Friday afternoon and public holidays, 8am-12.30pm and 4.30-5.30pm, in winter 8am-12.30pm and 2.45- 4.30pm). Other religious buildings are open daily 9am-6pm. Tickets covering visits to all the main sights must be obtained from the ONTT office; no tickets are issued at the individual buildings. When buying tickets visitors are required to sign a declaration (the "annex touristique") undertaking to respect the sacred buildings (to be suitably dressed, to avoid unnecessary noise or disturbance, not to smoke, not to enter the prayer hall in a mosque, etc.).