Tunisia

Tunisia is the smallest country in North Africa and the most quietly various. Carthage, Rome, the Aghlabids, the Ottomans, the French - each left something, and the result is a Mediterranean culture with a depth that the beach resorts along the coast do little to advertise. Tunis's medina is a UNESCO site that functions as a living neighbourhood. The south dissolves into the Sahara through salt lakes and troglodyte villages and landscapes that drew film crews looking for another planet. It is all much closer together than you expect.

Our guide is being written from the ground up, with the time this place deserves.

We are still gathering the notes that make a guide worth keeping: Tunis medina guesthouses, southern desert routes, brik stalls and the coastal fishing towns that serve the best seafood in the Maghreb with no ceremony whatsoever.