Day 1: Arrival, welcome at the airport by your guide, and transfer to a city hotel in the capital. Free time for rest, dinner, and overnight stay.
Day 2: Guided adventure to discover the oriental charm of the medina's lively souks. Lunch. Tour of the ancient site of Carthage. Continue to Sidi Bou Said, a picturesque village featuring Arab-Andalusian architecture.
Departure for Kairouan. Arrival at the hotel, dinner, and overnight stay.
Day 3: Tour of Kairouan, “the city of 300 mosques.” Kairouan is the oldest Muslim city in the Maghreb. Discover the ancient fortress-like mosques of Sidi Sahbi and Okba, the city walls, and the Aghlabite Basins, the city’s former water reservoirs. Lunch. Stroll through the medina nestled within the city walls and visit a weaving workshop.
Continue into the desert towards Tozeur.
Arrival at the hotel for dinner, rest, and an overnight stay.
Day 4: After breakfast, you will tour the medina, with its brick facades typical of the region, and then explore the palm grove, which is fed by over 200 springs. After lunch, you can choose between visiting the Museum of Traditions, which houses a collection of artworks from the 17th to the 20th centuries, or taking a 4x4 on an unforgettable excursion through the sand dunes to discover Chebika and Tamerza, mountain villages that have lived to the rhythm of their oases for nearly 2,000 years and have nevertheless preserved their traditional architecture. Around sunset, still in the 4x4, you will reach Ong Jmal, located in the heart of the Sahara. Ong Jmal is best known as the setting for several scenes in George Lucas’s famous “Star Wars” saga. Each year, the site welcomes a large number of tourists and hosts festivals such as the Dune Electronic Music Festival. Return to Tozeur for dinner and accommodation.
Day 5: Breakfast and departure to Douz and Matmata via Chott El Jerid, a vast dry salt lake famous for its breathtaking mirages.
Arrival in Douz: Free time for a dromedary ride or quad tour, as desired.
Lunch. Continuation to Matmata, a remarkable Berber village made up of troglodyte houses dug into the ground, which give the landscape a truly lunar appearance. Visits to the site and to a Berber house.
Arrival at the hotel in Matmata, dinner, evening activities, and overnight stay.
Day 6: El Jem, Monastir, Sousse
After breakfast, we will head north to the north, towards El Jem, a veritable stone colossus in the midst of an arid steppe. Tour of the Colosseum, which stands 35 meters (115 feet) high and could seat 35,000 spectators. It is the largest Roman monument left in Africa and the second-largest amphitheater in the Mediterranean.
Lunch and departure for Monastir. The city is known for its mosques and religious buildings, its lively medina and souks, its mausoleum, and its forts. Continuation of the journey and arrival in Sousse. Night tour (morning departure).
Day 7: City tour, including the medina and El Kantaoui Port. In the afternoon, transfer to the airport for departure.