You can shed your skin

You can shed your skin, which is one of the Things About Tunisia You Should Know. There are candy-red and black-striped doors that mark local hammams in the old medina's meandering streets (public bathhouses). Stay away if you are bothered by steam, semi-nudity, or the sensation of your own dead skin peeling off your body. Alternatively, get an exfoliating glove and a bar of soap and follow the folks dragging bags down the street to the nearest hammam.

Hammams are single-sex establishments that serve men and women at various times – yet both men and women should remove everything but their underpants. When you enter, you will be given two plastic buckets. To prepare your skin, sit in the steam chamber for as long as you can stand it. A Hammam madame (or monsieur) will scrub down your body as you stare in awe at the oily, black worms of dead skin that are sloughed off.