Taguermess: Parc Djerba Explore in Midoun

Parc Djerba Explore is located in Midoun’s tourist zone, at the foot of the Taguermess lighthouse. Its areas have different focuses: wildlife, art and history, as well as Djerbian customs and crafts. To find your way around the park, it is important to distinguish the freely accessible village area from the paid visitor areas.

Parc Djerba Explore near Taguermess

The park’s village area has freely accessible streets and squares. There are leisure and recreational areas, numerous shops, three cafés, and three restaurants. The paid visitor areas are the Lalla Hadria Museum, the Heritage module, and the crocodile farm. Free access applies to the streets and squares in this village area, not generally to all the modules. This distinction is useful when planning: spending time on the freely accessible streets and squares is different from entering a paid themed area.

Wildlife, art, and history

The crocodile farm area is home to 400 Nile crocodiles. The facility includes papyrus, palm trees, and banana plants, as well as pools and a tropical greenhouse. A group of crocodiles is fed every afternoon. The number of animals, the daily feeding, and the surroundings describe different aspects of the area: its wildlife, a recurring activity, and the facility itself. In contrast to the museum and the Heritage area, the focus here is on wildlife.

The Lalla Hadria Museum is one of the paid visitor areas. It offers an overview of the art of Tunisia and the Arab-Islamic world. Its collection comprises more than 1,000 objects spanning 13 centuries of art and history. These two details offer different points of reference: the number of objects conveys the collection’s scale, while the time span indicates its artistic and historical breadth. If you are interested in art history, this long timeframe offers a distinct point of reference alongside the size of the collection. This sets the museum apart from the craft demonstrations in the Heritage area.

Djerbian customs and crafts

Djerba Heritage is dedicated to Djerbian customs and crafts. In a weaving workshop, a weaver explains his work, while a craftsperson shapes clay in a pottery workshop. An underground olive mill illustrates the production of first-press olive oil. The examples combine different ways of presenting the subject: an explanation by the weaver, the shaping of clay by hand, and a demonstration of an olive mill used to produce olive oil. This makes craftsmanship recognizable through concrete activities, rather than merely naming it as an overarching theme. The focus is thus on working methods and customs, while the collection takes center stage in the museum.

Different focuses for planning your visit

When deciding what to visit, you can consider two questions separately: Would you like to focus on the freely accessible village area with its streets and squares, or on one of the paid visitor areas? You can then choose among the themed areas according to your interests in art and history, crafts, or wildlife.

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