I feel morally obligated to warn you about Tunisia

I’ve travelled to 53 countries, lived in North Africa, Europe, and the Middle East, and I’ve never had a trip go wrong in so many ways...

I paid to enter a mosque in Kairouan, but was refused entry for being non-Muslim. No refund of course. Two people in this group previously said there was signs up but there was not. And a quick search on google reviews shows many tourists who were scammed in the exact same way.

Carthage was dirty, unstaffed, no site info available, a site left to rot.

Shopkeepers were aggressive and blocked me from the exit, and insulting my friend who is not white by insisting that "he is not Canadian".

The “first-class” train had broken windows, loose racks, dirty stained seats.

My hotel cancelled a non-refundable booking on arrival and reeked of smoke and roaches.

Then came customs. You’re told you can’t leave with dinars. After your passport is stamped, they claim you’re “no longer in Tunisia”, even though you’re still inside a Tunisian-controlled zone surrounded by Tunisian police. With that fiction, they force you to empty your wallet. When I warned other tourists, agents shouted at me.