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Iconic Tunisia
$2,550
A person, double occupancy. Private tour for six adults.
The country in nine nights: the capital, the mountains meeting the sea at Tabarka, Kairouan, the oases, one night at the desert camp past the end of the paved road, and the coast at Sousse.
Tabarka
Day 3
Kairouan
Day 4
Chebika
Day 6
Tamezret
Day 8
Day 1
Met at the airport and taken to your hotel. As soon as you have refreshed yourself, Sidi Bou Said, whose sixteenth century architecture came with its Andalusian settlers. A welcome dinner follows in La Goulette or Carthage.
Night in Tunis, at Dar Said (or similar).
Day 2
The Roman ruins of Carthage in the morning, then the Bardo Museum, then into the heart of old Tunis for the seventh century medina.
Night in Tunis, at Dar Said (or similar).
Day 3
The Bardo Museum and its Roman mosaics, then northwest on rural roads towards Ain Draham and Tabarka, where the mountains come down to the Mediterranean.
Night in Tabarka, at La Cigale Tabarka or Dar Smail (or similar).
Day 4
Bulla Regia first, with its underground architecture and well preserved mosaics. After lunch, Dougga, Tunisia's largest and most impressive Roman site. Then on to Kairouan.
Night in Kairouan, at La Kasbah (or similar).
Day 5
The Great Mosque and the medina at Kairouan, then southwest to Sbeitla, and on to Tozeur, arriving late in the day.
Night in Tozeur, at Tameghza Palace, The Mora Sahara Tozeur or Dar Habibi (or similar).
Day 6
West towards the Algerian border and the village of Chott el Gharsa, then the mountain oases of Chebika and Tamerza. Back to Tozeur when you choose, to see the old town and the oasis.
Night in Tozeur, at Tameghza Palace, The Mora Sahara Tozeur or Dar Habibi (or similar).
Day 7
East across the chott to Douz, with time at the market, then south until the paved road ends and the desert tracks begin, arriving at the encampment in the afternoon. Late in the day is the time to take a camel trek if you would like one.
Night in Ksar Ghilane, at Pansy Camp (or similar).
Day 8
Back roads through the mountains around the Berber village of Tamezret and into Matmata, where you can go down into the dwellings and have lunch in a troglodyte restaurant that served as a bar in Star Wars. Then up the olive coast to El Djem.
Night in Sousse, at Movenpick Sousse (or similar).
Day 9
The marina at Port El Kantaoui, the medina of Sousse and its souks, then Monastir and the mausoleum of Habib Bourguiba, and a walk by the sea.
Night in Sousse, at Movenpick Sousse (or similar).
Day 10
Transfer to the airport for your flight home.
Start from this journey on the map and change what you like. The estimate moves as you build.
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 2
Guest house
Tabarka, 1 night
Day 3
Five star
Our sheet also names Dar Smail for this stop.
Kairouan, 1 night
Day 4
Five star
Tozeur, 2 nights
Days 5 to 6
Five star
Our sheet also names The Mora Sahara Tozeur and Dar Habibi for this stop.
Ksar Ghilane, 1 night
Day 7
Desert camp
Sousse, 2 nights
Days 8 to 9
Five star
We suggest March to May 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.
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, Jendouba for Bulla Regia, Beja for Dougga, Kasserine for Sbeitla and Kebili for Douz.
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