 Today is my first day since I arrived in Tunija where I'm traveling solo. Though I've been traveling solo for the past four months, I met a group of travelers in the hostel and we were exploring the streets of the Old Medina together, but this is technically my first day exploring on my own. I am in the main streets of the capital Tunis, La Habib Burgiba, and I'm really excited to bring you guys with and share with you if it's really safe to travel to Tunija, especially as a solo female traveler. The plan today is to make my way to Kartaj. It's an important historic site here in Tunis. I'm trying to find the tram to make my way there. It's pretty busy out today because it's Saturday and I'm so excited to bring you with and show you around this beautiful country. Just arrived to my first site in Kartaj, Bir Sahil. And when I got off of the train, usually you can walk, but I started my day a little bit later. It's already 1pm so I have to hustle, but I ordered a taxi through Bolt. There's this application you can use in Tunis because Uber is not allowed, so you can use Bolt instead. And it's actually pretty secure because a lot of people are a little bit hesitant around the word when they use Bolt, but the good thing in Tunis is that Bolt is only allowed for taxi drivers. So if you're not a taxi driver, you cannot use Bolt, which is really good. So that guarantees safety. Took Bolt, dropped me right outside of this site, and oh my gosh, the drive from the train station to get to Bir Sahil. So many beautiful mansions. It's just incredible, so that could make for a good walk. But anyway, this is one of about seven sites here in Kartaj. You get to any site really and then you get your tickets, 12 dinars, and you can use it to visit every site. And it's valid for the whole day, I think until 5pm. Bir Sahil is supposed to be the most beautiful site out here because you can see the Gulf of Tunis from the hill up here. It's right there, the Gulf of Tunis, and then behind me there are a bunch of ruins, really, really beautiful. The view from here, especially with clear skies, is just so incredible. This right here is what's left from the Phoenician settlement because at some point everything was destroyed by the Romans, and you can see that there are two levels. Up there, there are some columns and construction from the Romans. There's a forum, and then later on a church was built right there, but in this level right here, which feels kind of underground, and that's probably the reason why the Romans couldn't get to it. It's right there. You can see some of the houses where the Phoenicians lived when they settled in this area. It's pretty impressive. So much history here and so many things to learn, but I can't, I can't just talk about everything, but two things, two things that I want to share with you guys. So this right here, or these right here, actually some tools that were used in the kitchen by the Phoenicians. This tool was used for grinding grains, and you see the material that's used to make this one is actually lava stone, and there is no volcano in Tunisia. These are coming all the way from Italy where there's actually Mount Vesuvius, that I visited when I was in Italy, or Mount Etna in Catania, two big volcanoes in Italy, and that's where they got the material to make all of these. That's impressive. I mean, Italy is kind of right there, but still took some effort to get all of that transported right here in Tunisia. The second thing I want to share with you guys, this is a little bit said Phoenicians. They were known for sacrificing their kids to the gods, and there's actually another site here in Cartagena where you can see and experience that up close, but even right here I was surprised to learn that these are actually caskets, and they're all around the place where the Phoenicians deposited their babies before burial. It breaks my heart. Talking about safety, well there's a few month traveler. I think I'm having a positive impression so far. Obviously, I still have to stay here longer to really know, but I am pretty comfortable just walking on my own. I am comfortable even walking by myself in the whole street of the Medina, which I did earlier and then the other day as well. My main concern when I travel in areas that I'm not familiar with is sexual harassment, verbal harassment specifically, and sometimes I think that I might be treated differently because I'm of Arabic ethnicity, especially in Arab-speaking countries. Maybe my experience is different from someone of different ethnicity, like European travelers maybe, and I feel like with the other tourists in general, people are less likely to sexually harass you because you know they're a little bit more careful with tourists. A lot of people or locals are afraid of getting in trouble with the you know just the police and the authorities. But for me it can be sometimes positive experience, sometimes negative. Some people once they know that I'm of Moroccan origins, they're so excited, they're very welcoming, they're willing to give me more than I'm asking for, they're willing to show me their country and be really nice and kind and all, but sometimes if they see that or feel that they can be more prone to approach me, especially men, flirt, and sometimes cross the limits in a way that makes me feel uncomfortable. But overall, most of the people that I have met and seen today and over the past few days, they are respectful and I feel really comfortable traveling out here by myself. The other thing that I have noticed is the fact that women, because I keep comparing with Morocco, you know that's like my reference point, women in Tunisia are treated a lot better compared to women in Morocco, and they have better human rights in general, like women rights specifically. Because they're president, one of his priorities is to make sure that women are treated well in Tunisia, which is amazing and I honestly can feel it. I can feel a huge difference between how women are treated in Tunisia and in Morocco and also they have a law for sexual harassment, verbal harassment too, where people can go to jail for two years, plus a fine on top of that if they are involved in some sort of sexual harassment, which is super cool. And I ask a lot of locals around whether that's just a law or it's actually in effect, but it's actually in effect and people do actually go to jail because they harass women verbally. That in itself is a huge positive in this country. Just arrived to the Roman amphitheater. It's about 15 minutes walk from the hill where I was at. This is not the biggest amphitheater. There are actually a lot of Roman ruins all around Tunisia. This is not a really big one, but you can see some of the remains from the amphitheater and they have some maybe prisons all the way down. Just hit my third site today and I really like how in the ticket that you purchase they actually have the name of all the sites and every time you go to a new site, check in with them and they just mark it. And I think this is cool to just keep track of places you've seen, places that you should visit, but this is the burial site where the Phoenicians used to sacrifice their children. This is an example of one of those burial sites and I think this is the largest cemetery from the Phoenician period, which is pretty impressive. Now when you stop by this site, there isn't a lot to see, but this is pretty important history. Look how beautiful. I am so glad I made my way here. These are the this is the Punic port of Cartage and they're actually a bunch of small boats right there and you can see the water on the other side with all the hills. This is incredible. I actually just saw a person who just set off to go paddle boarding, which I think it's a neat activity to do out here. This is incredible and one thing that I noticed here in Tunis, Tunija, Alcantara, everywhere I go, the water is so clear and so blue. When I was in Hammameti, it was just like that and then here too, like you see far in the distance, the water is super clean. It's amazing.