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Tunisia Travel: Call to Prayer from Carthage Overlooking Tunis
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Tunisia Travel: Call to Prayer from Carthage Overlooking Tunis

The call to prayer in Tunisia was elusive. We hardly ever heard it from our vacation rental in Tunis. After visiting Turkey and Morocco where the calls to prayer were more dramatic, we were surprised. In this video, we finally capture a faint echo of Tunis's call to prayer as we stand overlooking the city from Carthage.Related Posts:Tunisia Travel: At Carthage Overlooking Tunis (video)Tunisia ...
Egypt Tourism: Call to Prayer in Cairo
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Egypt Tourism: Call to Prayer in Cairo

Calls to prayer in vary from country to country in the Muslim world. After having visited 8 Muslim countries, we've noticed differences between each country's call to prayer. Turkey's call to prayer was the most dramatic by far, while Tunisia's could barely be heard at all. We often wondered if the mosques in Tunis even did calls to prayer, since we could only kind of hear the call to prayer on the days ...
Egypt Tourism: Call to Prayer in Egypt Overlooking the Pyramids
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Egypt Tourism: Call to Prayer in Egypt Overlooking the Pyramids

From our vacation rental in Nazlet a-Sammam that we stayed in on our 2014 trip to Egypt we could hear the call to prayer (or adhan) in Cairo. Calls to prayer vary from country to country. In Tunisia, we almost never heard the call to prayer, and had to strain to hear it even in Tunis. In contrast, Turkey's calls to prayer were loud and proud.Related Posts:Egypt Tourism: Sandstorm at the Pyramids in ...
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