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Libya & Tunisia Tour in 2007 April (利比亞及突尼西亞撒哈拉沙漠之旅)

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Date (日期): 3/4/07 ~ 11/4/07 (9 Days)
Tour Fee (團費): HK$15998 + HK$1324 (Fuel Surcharge)+ (HK Airport Tax and security fee)+ Libya Landing Visa (HK$490), total fee is HK$17,812.00
Visa Libya Landing Visa (HK$490), waived in Tunisia
Flight Information Emirate EK381 00:35~05:20 10 hrs to Dubai & EK747 0900~13:20 from Dubai to Tripoli

             EK747 17:20~0105 8 hrs to Dubai & EK834 0315~1740 from Dubai via Bangkok to Hong Kong

Member no. of Tour 33 people
Exchange Rate (兌換率): 6.7 HK$ ~ 1 Dinar in Libya and Tunisia (Libya currency can be exchanged into Tunisia currency at the same rate while passing through the border.
Spending Money each day(每日洗費): Basically not much, I exchanged US$40 for photograph permission fee and souvenir for the whole tour, no tips was needed for baggage porter.
Price of Water (飲用水價錢): A meal in restaurant includes a bottle of 1.5L water and soft drink in Libya but only a bottle of 1.5L water in Tunisia, soft drink or non-alcohol beer $1 dinar.
Night Life (夜生活): No
Souvenir (手信): Pottery and Ceramics
On the Whole (整體感覺): Backward in Libya but many European visitors in Tunisia which is like a backyard of the Europeans, so there are many five-star hotels in Tunisia.
Tour Leader: Mr. Mostafa in Libya and Mr. Hassin in Tunisia
Tour Escort: Mr. Wong Kwok On, Adonis
Extra Attraction: Museum in Tunisia, US$100 for driver and local guide, average US$7.00 per person plus $1 dinar permission fee
Extra Fee Photograph permission fee $5 dinar in each attraction in Libya but $1 dinar in Tunisia

This tour is the most expensive that I've never joined before, it almost costed  HK$20,000.00, if not going with my friends, I would not join this tour at this time because I still have many places that I wanted to go, such as Scandinavia of 4 countries, Greek. This tour is ok but not worth for HK$18,000. Maybe some costs are parts of the 5-star hotels, If have could have choice, I would choose 3-star hotel because we were out of hotels all the time.

Libya is not so boom that I expected because it had been imposed sanction until 2003 because of involving conspiracy plot in explosion of Pan Am Aircraft. Luckily, it can produce petroleum so people and city are not so dirty in the whole. As it is an Islamic country, seldom nightlife was seen in this countries. Along the coast of Mediterranean Sea, there are not many traveling attractions, so there are many developing chances in this Tripoli. Tripoli is a capital of Libya but only 10% of the Libya territories can be used, most of its land is desert. The hotel where I lived in Tripoli is a 3-Star hotel although it labeled itself as a 4-star hotel but our room was facing Mediterranean Sea.  As Libya is not fully open to the world, it took a long time to go through the immigration dept when we arrived via Dubai from Hong Kong. 

Three days later, when we went through the Border Control Station, it took 4 hours to go through it. The procedure in Tripoli's side is ok although the coach driver took more time than us to proceed the immigration dept. In the Tunisia's side every one of us had to get off the coach to submit the passport personally so that the officer could see us.  At first, I thought Tunisia is a backward country, it is in fact travelling backyard of Europe, most Europeans from Spain, Portugal, France, UK, Germany, the strong Euro spent on African countries seems much worthy. As it is a travelling backyard, there are many 5-star hotels in Tunisia for Europeans for their Vacation. And Tunisia is a colonial country of France so French is spoken in Tunisia.

Have A Nice Trip !    祝君旅途愉快 !

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