Embark on a 10-day journey through Tunisia’s landscapes and ancient marvels. Explore coastal charm, archaeological treasures, and ancient sites. Experience spiritual ambiance and uncover hidden gems in oasis villages. Witness surreal beauty and explore traditional Berber villages. With each day full of adventures, this tour promises an unforgettable exploration of Tunisia’s heritage and natural wonders.
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Tunis
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Tunis
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3-star and 4-star hotels
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Included
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microbus
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Included
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Tunis, Hammamet, Cap Bon, Nabeul, Grombalia, Bardo Museum, Carthage, Sidi Bou Said, Testour, Dougga, Kairouan, Sbeitla, Gafsa, Tozeur, Chebika, Tamerza, Nefta, Chott El Jerid, Douz, Matmata, Gabes, Sfax, El Jem, Mahdia, Monastir, Sousse, Tunis.
10-day Tunisia itinerary
Met at Tunis and driven down to Hammamet on the coast. Tunisia is small, and that is its advantage: you can stand in a Roman amphitheatre, a Berber cave house and the Sahara within three days of each other. Hammamet has a walled medina on the sea and the beach the country was built on.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
Cap Bon, the fertile horn of Tunisia. Kerkouane is the reason to come: the only Punic city that was never rebuilt by the Romans, so it is the only place on Earth where you can see how Carthaginians actually laid out a town — and every house had a bathtub, which tells you something. Nabeul for pottery; Grombalia for wine.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
The Bardo Museum first, for the greatest collection of Roman mosaics in the world, laid out in an Ottoman palace. Then Carthage, Hannibal's city, razed by Rome and rebuilt by Rome. And Sidi Bou Said at the end of the day, when the light is on the blue doors.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
Testour was built by Andalusian Muslims expelled from Spain in the 17th century, and it still looks it — the minaret has a clock that runs backwards, which nobody has satisfactorily explained. Then Dougga, the best-preserved Roman town in North Africa, and Thuburbo Majus, and on to Kairouan.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
Kairouan is the oldest Muslim city in North Africa, founded in 670 AD, and the fourth holiest in Islam. Its Great Mosque set the pattern every mosque in the Maghreb followed — a huge courtyard, a squat square minaret, and 414 columns looted from Roman ruins, no two of them matching. The Aghlabid basins outside the walls held the 9th-century water supply and still hold water. Then Sbeitla, where three Roman temples stand side by side in a row, a configuration that survives almost nowhere else.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
South-west through Gafsa, with its Roman pools still in use as swimming baths in the middle of town, and out to Tozeur — a date-palm oasis of two hundred thousand trees, with a medina built of patterned yellow brick laid in geometric relief, which is a technique found here and essentially nowhere else.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
The mountain oases, then Nefta, the centre of Sufism in Tunisia, with its 'Corbeille' — a bowl of a thousand palms below the town. Out at Ong Jemal in the dunes stand the sets of Mos Espa, still there, still being repaired by the locals, slowly losing to the sand.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
Across the great salt lake, through Kebili and Douz where the Sahara starts in earnest, to the Berber hill villages of Tamezret and the underground houses of Matmata. Overnight in Sfax.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
El Jem's amphitheatre, then up the coast: Mahdia, the Fatimid capital on a peninsula, with a working fishing port and no tourists; Monastir and its ribat, the fortified monastery used as a film set for Life of Brian; and Sousse for the night.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
North to Tunis and the airport. End of our services.
