🇹🇳 Djerba (Souani)
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Best directionNE
Wind speed12–25kt
SeasonMar – Nov
Skill levelBeginner
WaterFlat lagoon
Ridden forKitesurfing
Part of Tunisia's flagship kite region — a huge, shallow, flat-water lagoon known as the "Island of Dreams" among North African kiters. Thermal wind from the NE/SE, strongest June–August, with butter-flat water that makes it one of the best beginner lagoons on the continent.
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Getting thereFly into Djerba-Zarzis (DJE) and take a 25-minute taxi or rental car east toward Midoun. A car helps but isn't essential — taxis are cheap; free parking at the…
HazardsRocky patches and old concrete foundations hide just beneath the sand near shore. Water stays shallow and standing-depth for hundreds of meters, but strong…
Best time of dayAfternoon, April-October, when summer trades get a real thermal boost off the heating Tunisian mainland. A…
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