Star Wars — 3-day circuit
All Star Wars film locations in Tunisia: Sidi Driss, Onk Jemel, Mos Espa.
Highlights
- ✓Mos Espa at Onk Jemel — young Anakin's film set (Episode I).
- ✓Sidi Driss Hotel in Matmata — Luke Skywalker's Tatooine (Episode IV).
- ✓Ksar Hadada — Anakin's enslavement (Episode I, deleted scenes).
The Star Wars Tunisia circuit is a 3-day excursion designed for fans: all the filming locations used by George Lucas in the Star Wars saga are in Tunisia, and our circuit covers them comprehensively.
Beyond the sets, our guides explain the history of the filming: why Tunisia? Which sites no longer exist? How have the sets been preserved?
Included
✅ Included
- ✓4x4 transport
- ✓Passionate Star Wars French-speaking guide
- ✓2 nights accommodation
- ✓All meals
- ✓All sites
❌ Not included
- ✕Beverages
- ✕Gratuities
Day-by-day programme
- Day 1
Djerba → Matmata → Tataouine
Luke Skywalker's house (Sidi Driss) and the ksour of Tataouine (the inspiration for Tatooine). Night in the South.
- Day 2
Nefta: Mos Espa & Ong Jmel
Filming locations in the desert, the Ong Jmel dune, then Chott el Jerid. Night in Tozeur.
- Day 3
Tozeur & oases → return
Palm grove, mountain oasis and the drive back to Djerba.
🗺️ Stops on this tour
Everything about each village and destination visited: history, highlights, practical tips.
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.
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.
Tataouine: the capital of the ksour, between the Dahar and the Sahara
The town of Tataouine lent its name to Luke Skywalker's planet, but its real treasure lies around it: dozens of ksour, the fortified Berber granaries, and the hilltop villages of Chenini, Douiret and Guermessa.
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.
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.
