Tunisia Travel Podcast with Rania Ben Salah

society, culture, places, travel, documentary, education · EN-US

Tunisia Travel Podcast with Rania Ben Salah is a series about moving through the country slowly, with attention to how the Mediterranean location, long imperial history, and shifting terrain shape daily life. The landscape runs from the northern mountains to the hot central plain and the semiarid south merging into the Sahara, so journeys become changes in climate as much as distance. She starts in Tunis, the capital, then travels to Ain Draham in the northern mountains, crosses the central plain around Kairouan, and reaches the oasis town of Tozeur on the edge of the Sahara. Each place changes the texture of the show: city streets, forest trails, olive plains, desert palm groves. Over a couple of years, the show settles in a place, returns to it through different seasons, and eventually moves on to somewhere connected. The northern mountains become familiar through winter rain and summer dryness, the central plain through its heat, and the Sahara through wind and shif