Tunisia invites you to embark on an enthralling 5-day journey through its timeless wonders with our exclusive “From Ancient Ruins to Oasis Villages” tour. From the vibrant city of Tunis to the serene oasis villages of Chebika, Tamerza, and Mides, each day promises an immersive exploration of Tunisia’s diverse landscapes and rich heritage. Explore iconic landmarks such as the El Jem Coliseum and the ancient ruins of Carthage, while soaking in the spiritual ambiance of Kairouan. Join us as we traverse the vast salt flats of Chott El Jerid and delve into the troglodyte dwellings of Matmata. With expertly crafted itineraries and unforgettable experiences, our tour ensures an unforgettable adventure through Tunisia’s cultural and natural treasures.
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Tunis
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Tunis
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3-star and 4-star hotels
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microbus
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Tunis, Hammamet, El Jem, Matmata, Douz, Tozeur, Kairouan, Gafsa, Carthage, Sidi Bou Said, Tunis
5-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.
El Jem is the third-largest Roman amphitheatre ever built and the best preserved in Africa — it seated 35,000 in a town that can never have had that many people, and you can walk the underground chambers where the animals and the condemned waited. Then Matmata, where Berbers dug their houses down into the ground: a courtyard pit with rooms cut into the sides, cool in summer, warm in winter. One of them is the Lars homestead from Star Wars, and it is now a hotel. On to Douz, on the edge of the Sahara.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
Across the Chott el Jerid, a salt lake the size of a small country — a blinding white crust with a causeway across it, and mirages that are real and constant and genuinely disorienting. Then the mountain oases: Chebika on its cliff, Tamerza abandoned after the floods of 1969, and Mides on the edge of its canyon. Tozeur for the night, in a medina of patterned brickwork.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
Kairouan is the fourth holiest city in Islam and the oldest Muslim city in North Africa, founded in 670 AD. Its Great Mosque is the model on which almost every mosque in the Maghreb was based — a vast courtyard, a squat square minaret, and 414 columns looted from Roman and Byzantine ruins, no two alike. The Aghlabid basins outside the walls held the city's water supply in the 9th century and still hold water.
Overnight: 4-star hotel.
Carthage in the morning — the Antonine Baths, the Punic ports, the hill Rome levelled in 146 BC — then Sidi Bou Said, blue and white above the sea. If there is time, the Bardo and its Roman mosaics, the finest collection anywhere. Then the airport. End of our services.
