3 days — Djerba → Tozeur, oasis, desert & Star Wars
From the Tozeur oasis to Chott El Jerid, Onk Jemel and Star Wars sets. Night in the desert.
Highlights
- ✓Star Wars Mos Espa sets at Onk Jemel (Anakin Skywalker's Tatooine).
- ✓Crossing Chott El Jerid — giant salt lake, mirages at sunrise.
- ✓Tozeur oasis with its 200,000 palm trees, carriage ride.
The 3 days / 2 nights Djerba → Tozeur excursion is our comprehensive package for discovering south-western Tunisia. It combines what you'll find in our shorter packages (Matmata, Sahara) and adds the hidden gems you can't reach in 2 days: Onk Jemel and the Star Wars Mos Espa film set, the Chott El Jerid and its salt mirrors, and the monumental oasis of Tozeur.
Included
✅ Included
- ✓Air-conditioned 4x4 transport
- ✓Multilingual guide
- ✓2 nights accommodation (desert camp + Tozeur hotel)
- ✓All meals
- ✓All visits
❌ Not included
- ✕Beverages
- ✕Tips
- ✕Optional activities (camel ride, quad bike)
Day-by-day programme
- Day 1
Djerba → Tataouine → Ksar Ghilane
- Day 2
Ksar Ghilane → Douz → Tozeur
- Day 3
Tozeur → Onk Jemel → Djerba
🗺️ 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
