Tunisian-Saharan Adventure — 10 days
The grand tour: Carthage, Sidi Bou Saïd, Kairouan, El Jem, Tozeur, Douz, Sahara.
Highlights
- ✓All major sites: Carthage, Sidi Bou Saïd, Kairouan, El Jem, Tozeur, Sahara, Djerba.
- ✓3-4* accommodation at each stop.
- ✓All meals included.
Tunisia's grand circuit in 10 days: from Punic north to Saharan south. Roman ruins, UNESCO-listed medinas, monumental oases, Sahara dunes, Djerba island. The most comprehensive formula to discover the entire country.
Included
✅ Included
- ✓4×4 or minibus transport
- ✓French-speaking guide
- ✓9 nights in 3-4* hotels
- ✓All meals included
- ✓All sites
❌ Not included
- ✕Flights
- ✕Beverages
- ✕Tips
Day-by-day programme (10 days / 9 nights)
- Day 1
Djerba & welcome
Pick-up, check-in and an orientation tour of the island.
- Day 2
Djerba → Tunis / Carthage
Drive north and visit of the Punic and Roman remains of Carthage.
- Day 3
Sidi Bou Saïd & Tunis
The blue-and-white village, the medina of Tunis and the Bardo Museum.
- Day 4
Kairouan
Holy city: Great Mosque and the Aghlabid Basins (UNESCO).
- Day 5
El Jem & Sfax
The Roman amphitheatre of El Jem (UNESCO), one of the best preserved in the world.
- Day 6
Towards the South-West → Tozeur
Drive to the oases through contrasting landscapes.
- Day 7
- Day 8
Chott el Jerid → Douz
Salt lake, then Douz, gateway to the Sahara: dunes and camel rides.
- Day 9
Matmata & Dahar
Troglodyte houses, Berber ksour and hilltop villages.
- Day 10
Return to Djerba
Last discoveries and end of the tour.
🗺️ Stops on this tour
Everything about each village and destination visited: history, highlights, practical tips.
Tozeur: the great oasis of the Jerid, its ochre bricks and its palm grove
Capital of the Jerid, Tozeur is Tunisia's most beautiful oasis town: a vast palm grove fed by dozens of springs, an old town with ochre brick façades and, all around, the salt lake and the mountain oases.
Douz, gateway to the Sahara: dunes, camels and the Thursday market
Douz is where the palm grove ends and the sand begins. Nicknamed the "gateway to the Sahara", it is the starting point for camel rides and desert treks towards the Grand Erg.
Chebika: the mountain oasis, its waterfall and its old village
At the foot of the djebel, a spring gushes from the rock, tumbles down as a waterfall and brings a palm grove to life, squeezed into a gorge of red stone. Chebika is the first of the Jerid's three mountain oases, and the most photogenic.
Tamerza: the great waterfall, the canyon and the ghost village
The largest of Tunisia's mountain oases: a palm grove in a canyon, a waterfall that flows all year round and, on the other side of the wadi, the ochre ruins of old Tamerza, abandoned after the floods of 1969.
Mides: the dizzying canyon and the oasis on the Algerian border
The old village of Mides is perched on a rocky spur ringed by a canyon dozens of metres deep. It is the most spectacular of the mountain oases, a stone's throw from Algeria.
Nefta, Mos Espa and Ong Jemel: the Star Wars sets in the desert
West of Tozeur, the holy city of Nefta watches over its "basket" of springs. A little further on, among the dunes, the village of Mos Espa is still waiting for Anakin: the set of The Phantom Menace is still standing.
The Chott el Jerid: crossing the great salt lake of the Tunisian Sahara
More than 5,000 km² of salt as far as the eye can see, a straight road laid across it, mirages dancing at noon and pink reflections at sunset: the Chott el Jerid is one of the strangest landscapes in Tunisia.
Matmata: the troglodyte houses and Luke Skywalker's home
Seen from the sky, Matmata looks like a field of craters: each crater is a house, dug into the earth by the Berbers to shelter from the heat. One of them became Luke Skywalker's home.
