Day 1
Arrival in Tunis
Met at the airport and taken to your hotel in Gammarth, close to the restaurants and the beach, with an orientation meeting and time by the sea.
Night in Tunis, at The Residence Tunis (or similar).
Private Tunisia tour: 12 days, 11 nights along the Mediterranean coast
$3,690
A person, double occupancy.
The coast from Gammarth to Djerba at a lighter pace, with Tabarka and its mountains above the sea, Cap Bon and the Punic site at Kerkouane, and the island of Djerba.
The journey in brief
- Length
- 12 days, 11 nights
- Price
- $3,690 a person, double occupancy
- Single room supplement
- $825 a person
- You sleep in
- Tunis (2 nights), Tabarka (1 night), Hammamet (2 nights), Korba (1 night), Sousse (2 nights), Djerba (2 nights) and Sousse (1 night)
- Meals
- All meals
- Best months
- March to June, September to November
Along the way
Tabarka
Day 3
Hammamet
Day 4
Kerkouane
Day 6
Djerba
Day 9
Day by day
Day 2
Carthage, the medina and Sidi Bou Said
Carthage in the morning, then the medina of Tunis, then Sidi Bou Said.
Night in Tunis, at The Residence Tunis (or similar).
Day 3
Bizerte and Tabarka
Bizerte, one of the most attractive cities on the Mediterranean, with time on the beaches, then northwest to Tabarka and the mountains above the sea.
Night in Tabarka, at La Cigale Tabarka (or similar).
Day 4
Ain Draham, Dougga and Hammamet
Rural roads to Ain Draham, then Dougga, Tunisia's largest Roman site, then on to Hammamet.
Night in Hammamet, at Le Royal Hammamet.
Day 5
Hammamet
A day on the coast at Hammamet, with the afternoon free.
Night in Hammamet, at Le Royal Hammamet.
Day 6
Cap Bon
The natural spring at Korbous, then El Haouaria at the tip of the peninsula, 112 km from Italy. The Punic site at Kerkouane, which the Romans never built over, then the fort at Kelibia.
Night in Korba, at Africajad.
Day 7
Hergla, Sousse and Port El Kantaoui
Hergla in the morning, then Sousse, then the marina at Port El Kantaoui in the afternoon.
Night in Sousse, at Movenpick Sousse (or similar).
Day 8
Sousse and Monastir
Monastir, lunch at a fish restaurant, the mausoleum of Habib Bourguiba, and a walk by the Mediterranean.
Night in Sousse, at Movenpick Sousse (or similar).
Day 9
El Djem, Matmata, the ksour and Djerba
The colosseum at El Djem, then Matmata and its troglodyte dwellings with lunch in a troglodyte restaurant, then the ksour at Metameur and Haddada, then the causeway to Djerba.
Night in Djerba, at Radisson Blu Djerba (or similar).
Day 10
The island of Djerba
Guellala and its pottery, the Ghriba synagogue, and the souk at Houmt Souk.
Night in Djerba, at Radisson Blu Djerba (or similar).
Day 11
Back to Sousse
Your morning on Djerba is unstructured, then the drive back to Sousse and a farewell dinner.
Night in Sousse, at Movenpick Sousse (or similar).
Day 12
Departure
A free morning for the market or the medina, then transfer to the airport.
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Where you sleep
The hotels our programme sheet names for this journey. Where the sheet says or similar, so do we, and a similar property may stand in.
Tunis, 2 nights
Days 1 to 2The Residence Tunis (or similar)
Five star
Our sheet calls it Residence Gammarth.
Tabarka, 1 night
Day 3La Cigale Tabarka (or similar)
Five star
Hammamet, 2 nights
Days 4 to 5Le Royal Hammamet
Five star
Korba, 1 night
Day 6Africajad
Five star
Sousse, 3 nights
Days 7 to 8 and 11Movenpick Sousse (or similar)
Five star
Djerba, 2 nights
Days 9 to 10Radisson Blu Djerba (or similar)
Five star
What the price covers
Included
- Airport transfers
- Hotels
- Baggage handling
- Transportation as indicated
- Entrance fees to all sites
- All meals
- All taxes
Not included
This programme's cost sheet does not list what the price leaves out, so we do not state it here. Ask what you are wondering about on the call and we will put the answer in writing.
This programme's cost sheet lists no English speaking guide, no welcome dinner and no 4x4 excursion. The English speaking guide and the welcome dinner are on the sheets of all five of our other private programmes, and the 4x4 excursion is on the sheets of four of them. If one of those matters to you, ask on the call and we will put the answer in writing.
When to go
We suggest March to June and September to November for this journey. We leave out any month in which the average daytime high reaches 95F (35C) at a place on this route that the table covers, and we leave out December to February.
- The places that reach the line are days out and not nights: Dougga, El Djem and Matmata.
- Dougga: an average daytime high of 96.8F (36.0C) in July and 97.2F (36.2C) in August.
- El Djem: an average daytime high of 99.9F (37.7C) in July and 99.5F (37.5C) in August.
- Matmata: an average daytime high of 97.2F (36.2C) in August.
- Tunis, Monastir and Djerba stay under the line all year. August is the warmest month the Institut lists for them: 93.4F (34.1C) at Tunis, 91.0F (32.8C) at Monastir and 92.3F (33.5C) at Djerba.
- June is the warm edge of that window, and the Institut puts it just under the line: El Djem averages 93.7F (34.3C).
- We leave out December to February. Tunis is at its wettest in December, with 75.2mm (3.0 in) of rain, and in January, with 63.1mm (2.5 in), and those three months are the coolest of the year at Tunis and at Tozeur.
- Tabarka, where you spend one night, is the wettest station in the Institut's table: 960.2mm (37.8 in) a year, against 471.6mm (18.6 in) at Tunis.
Source: Institut National de la Météorologie, Tunisia's national weather service. The figures are its long term monthly averages, and no station sits at a site. The choice of months is our advice, and none of our programme sheets states a season. Each figure is from the Institut's station nearest the place: Tunis-Carthage for Tunis, Beja for Dougga and Kairouan for El Djem.
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