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Choose the places you want to see and give each the nights it deserves. The route and an honest price range take shape as you go. Nothing here is a booking. When it looks right, send it to us. We reply within one business day, US Eastern time.

There are 54 places in nine regions. 17 of them are somewhere you sleep and the rest are visits from one. Start from the map, from the list by region, or from one of our six journeys, and change whatever you like.

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The shape of the trip

How many nights
9 nights
Ours run
When you would like to go

A month is enough. Choose flexible and the estimate covers every month.

Who is travelling

Adults

2

Children

0
The pace you like

Where you would like to go

Choose places to sleep and give each the nights it deserves. A visit takes part of a day and no night of its own.

Start from one of ours

Loads its places and nights. Then change whatever you like.

Somewhere to sleep

  • A horseshoe arch lit at night over a pierced screen of Kufic calligraphy, with slender marble columns on either side

    Tunis

    Somewhere to sleep

    In our journeys: two or three nights

    About Tunis

Visits from a base

  • The Antonine Baths at Carthage beside the Bay of Tunis, with two tall columns and mountains across the water

    Carthage

    Visited from Tunis, World Heritage Site

    In our journeys: half a day

    About Carthage
  • A Moorish arcade of horseshoe arches lit warm against the night sky, with steps and a cobbled forecourt in front

    Sidi Bou Said

    Visited from Tunis, World Heritage Site

    In our journeys: a short visit

    About Sidi Bou Said
  • The arcade of horseshoe arches above the courtyard of the Bardo Museum in Tunis, with a Roman mosaic floor laid out in the foreground

    The Bardo Museum

    Visited from Tunis

    In our journeys: half a day

    About The Bardo Museum
  • The roofs and domes of the Tunis medina seen through the arcade at the top of the Zitouna Mosque minaret

    The Medina of Tunis

    Visited from Tunis, World Heritage Site

    In our journeys: half a day

    About The Medina of Tunis
  • The seafront promenade at La Marsa with a white balustrade, a few people on the benches and the bay and wooded headland beyond

    Gammarth and La Marsa

    Visited from Tunis

    In our journeys: the first afternoon and evening

    About Gammarth and La Marsa

  • A grey photograph is a place to sleep that is not on your journey. Press it to add it.
  • A photograph in colour with a gold ring and a number is a stop on your route, in order.
  • Press a stop again to open its card. There you change its nights, remove it, or add the places near it.
  • The gold line is your route, from Tunis.

With a keyboard, Tab enters the map once. The arrow keys move to the nearest place in that direction, Home and End go to the north and the south, Enter adds a place or opens one you have added, and Escape closes a card and then returns to the map.

Drag to move around the map. Pinch to zoom.

Your journey

0 of 9 nights allocated

Add a place to sleep to begin your route.

How you travel

Your own guide, driver and vehicle come with every journey. They are not an option, so they are not on this list.

Hotels
Things you can add

The parts of a journey that are yours rather than ours. Each one happens somewhere, and the line under it says whether your route gets there. Whatever you choose travels with your enquiry, and anything with no price here is priced in our reply.

Send it to us

We see exactly what you see: the places, the nights and the route, and the range you were shown. We reply within one business day, US Eastern time. Sending asks for an email address and nothing about payment or passports.

A first name is enough. You can leave this empty.

For example the ages of any children, an occasion, or how much driving suits you.

Choose a place to sleep first, and your journey can be sent.

Every place, by region

54 places in nine regions, each with a page of its own. Read about a place before you add it, or open one from here and come back.

Tunis and Carthage

The capital, the Punic and Roman ruins on the gulf, and the blue and white village above them.

The North Coast and Kroumirie

Cork oak forests, mountains meeting the Mediterranean, and the quietest coast in the country.

The Roman Heartland

Dougga, Bulla Regia and the inland cities that made Roman Africa rich.

Cap Bon

The peninsula pointing at Sicily: hot springs, a Punic town the Romans never built over, and cliffs over the strait.

Kairouan

North Africa's oldest Islamic city, and a mosque reputed to be the oldest on the continent.

The Sahel

The olive coast: Sousse, Monastir, and the best preserved Roman amphitheatre in the world.

The Oases and the Chotts

Mountain oases, a salt lake that changes colour, and the sets where Tatooine was filmed.

The Deep South and the Ksour

Troglodyte dwellings, fortified granaries, and the dunes beyond the end of the tarmac.

Djerba

An island that keeps its own pace, with one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world.

Or start from one of ours

six private journeys, each at the price on its own page. In the designer, choose one to load its places and nights, then change whatever you like.

  • Tunisia's Mediterranean Treasures

    12 days, 11 nights. Sleeps in Tunis (2 nights), Tabarka (1 night), Hammamet (2 nights), Korba (1 night), Sousse (2 nights), Djerba (2 nights) and Sousse (1 night).

    $3,690 per person, double occupancy

  • The Wonders of Tunisia

    11 days, 10 nights. Sleeps in Tunis (2 nights), Tabarka (1 night), Kairouan (1 night), Tozeur (2 nights), Ksar Ghilane (1 night), Djerba (2 nights) and Tunis (1 night).

    $3,150 per person, double occupancy

  • Tunisia's Marvels

    10 days, 9 nights. Sleeps in Tunis (2 nights), Tabarka (1 night), Kairouan (1 night), Tozeur (2 nights), Ksar Ghilane (1 night) and Sousse (2 nights).

    $2,550 per person, double occupancy. Private tour for six adults

  • The Splendors of Tunisia

    8 days, 7 nights. Sleeps in Tunis (2 nights), Kairouan (1 night), Tozeur (2 nights), Sousse (1 night) and Tunis (1 night).

    $2,190 per person, double occupancy

  • From Carthage to Kairouan

    7 days, 6 nights. Sleeps in Tunis (2 nights), Ain Draham (1 night), Kairouan (1 night), Sousse (1 night) and Tunis (1 night).

    $2,190 per person, double occupancy

  • Carthage, Kairouan and the Coast

    7 days, 6 nights. Sleeps in Tunis (2 nights), Kairouan (1 night), Sousse (2 nights) and Hammamet (1 night).

    $1,950 per person, double occupancy. Private tour for six adults

About the designer

Is the price in the designer a quote?
No. An estimate, not a quote. We confirm every price before anything is booked. A route you have designed is one we have not seen yet, so it is shown as a range and never as a single figure. When what you build matches one of our published journeys, the designer says so and gives that journey's own price, which is the figure on the journey's page. When it cannot give a number it says that, and we price the journey for you within one business day.
Where is my journey saved?
In the address of the page, after the # sign. Copy the link and send it to anyone and it opens to the same journey. The part of an address after the # is never sent to a server, so nothing about your trip reaches us until you press send.
What is the difference between a place to sleep and a place to visit?
17 of the 54 places are somewhere you sleep, and they carry your nights. The other 37 are visits from a base, such as Dougga from Kairouan or El Djem from Sousse. A visit takes part of a day and has no night of its own.
How many nights can I plan?
From 6 to 14. Our published journeys run 6 to 11 nights, and one place can take up to 4. If you add nights to the trip they wait as unassigned until you give them to a stop. If you shorten the trip the designer asks which stop gives a night up. It never moves a night you have placed.
What happens when I send my journey?
We receive your places, your nights, your dates and who is travelling, with the email address you give us. We reply within one business day, US Eastern time. The first reply is a real one from the team that will run your journey. Sending asks for nothing about payment or passports.
Can I use the designer without a mouse?
Yes. The map is a single stop in the tab order. Inside it the arrow keys move to the nearest place in that direction, Home and End go to the northernmost and southernmost, Enter adds a place or opens one you have already added, and Escape returns to the map itself. The list by region does the same job with the same buttons, and it is the easier way in on a phone.

Prefer to talk it through first

Bring what you have so far, or nothing at all. Twenty minutes is usually enough to say what is possible and what it would cost.

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