Tunisia Discovery Tour

Day 1: Arrive in Tunis:

Upon arrival at the Tunis airport assistance and transfer to your hotel. The remainder of the day is free. Dinner and overnight in Tunis.

Day 2: Tunis- Carthage –Bardo-Sidi Bou Saîd -Hammamet:

Depart to the ancient city of Carthage founded by a Phoenician princess, visit of the Byrsa Hill with its vestiges of Carthaginian and Roman buildings, and the Antonine Baths, a huge Roman bath complex on the edge of the Mediterranean.

Continue to Sidi Bou Said; Andalous village; for a stroll through narrow streets lined with whitewashed houses with blue shutters and doors.

Next visit of the Bardo Tunisia’s National Museum with it’s archaeological collections including the world’s largest collection of Roman polychrome mosaics. It is housed in a 19th century Beylical palace, and was the first museum to be founded in Africa National Museum , then free time at the Médina (old town ) .At the end of the day ,departure for Hammamet dinner and Overnight .

Day 4:Gafsa-Chébika-Tamerza Midès-Tozeur:

Morning at leisure or you can take an optional 4WD excursion: It’s a discovery extra tour to the mountain oases, where many of the scenes of The English Patient were filmed.

You’ll drive south into some of the country’s most spectacular mountain scenery, visit the mountain oasis of Tamerza, along with Mides and Chebika, In ancient days the village of Heike was called Ad speculum after the Roman troops who communicated by mirror. The towns were flooded in 1969 in freak torrential rains and were later abandoned. The original villages are now ghost towns. These villages continue with the old tiered oasis-style of cultivation of crops ,vegetables are grown under pomegranate and orange trees which in turn are grown under date palms.

Arrive in Tozeur, visit the old town little changed since the 14th century when it was built. This quarter is famous for the unique decorative architecture in brick with exuberant towering facades patterned in bas-relief zigzags.

Dinner and accommodation at your hotel. After dinner you can enjoy an optional extra visit to the museum of Tunisian traditions in the Dar Cherait complex.

Day 5: Tozeur-Nefta-Chott El Djerid -Douz –Medenine-Djerba:

After breakfast we’ll travel to the small, remote town of Nefta. This peaceful oasis, with a crater-like depression planted with palm trees in its centre, is crowned with the white domes of numerous Zaouias (holy sanctuaries). We'll visit the old quarter with its distinctive architecture and observe, through ancient doorways, the looms and rugs that provide a living for most of the people. Continue to cross the Chott El Jerid.This chott (flat, dry salt lake) is the largest in Tunisia, this region is also well-known for its “Desert Roses”.

As we arrive in Douz; a typical desert village, the gate of the Shara, here you have the opportunity to have an optional camel ride passing through deserted landscape and picturesque sand dunes.Departure for the troglodyte village of Matmata where dwellings are built like craters in the middle of the desert. The primitive looking homes were designed to maintain moderate temperatures throughout the year, cool in summer and warm in winter and were an ingenious hideaway from the enemy. Proceed to Medenine to visit the ghorfas, ancient wheat granaries built in the rocks. Departure by the roman road to Djerba, Island with the typical architecture of the white menzels, visit of the most pleasant facets of this adored island in Guellala and Houmt Souk, the island's capital, experience the ancient tradition of pottery making. Dinner and accommodation at your hotel.