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day at your hotel Breakfast.
dinner and overnight.
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Carthage-Sidi Bou Said Bardo Museum-Medina Tunis
Today you will start the tour by visiting Carthage the capital of the great Carthaginian Empire. There will be visits to the Byrsa Hill and Roman buildings, the Punic ports, the Salammbo Tophet, and the Antonine Baths.
Continue to visit the picturesque Andalusian village Sidi Bou Said. It is a delightful place for a leisurely stroll through its winding cobbled streets. Its trademark white walls, contrasting sky blue doors and ornate window grids make for wonderful photography. This village is a meeting place for artists, and it offers a breathtaking view of the Gulf of Tunis..
Next visit of the Bardo Tunisia's National Museum with it's archaeological collections including the world's largest collection of Roman polychrome mosaics. Continue to visit the medina of Tunis, Tunis's historic heart, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, you will have time to make shopping and stroll through the winding Medina's streets, with its souk (door-to-door shops selling all types of local curiosities) one of the world's great marketplaces and retrace its remarkable wealthy past, you will have also a walking tour within the modern city Transfer back to hotel. Dinner and overnight.
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Holy city of Kairouan- Gafsa
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This morning we depart to Kairouan, the first Holy Islamic City in North Africa and known for its fortified Medina and authentic architectural style. This town was declared by as a World Heritage Site in 1988, for its rich cultural heritage. This city remains a purely Arab city filled with outstanding examples of the finest Islamic architecture in Tunisia: We will Visit the Great Mosque, the oldest place of worship in
North Africa, and the zaouia, or tomb complex, of Sidi Sahab, a companion of the Prophet. We will see the impressive pools at Aghlabid Basins, built in the 9th century to collect and store winter rainwater, a reminder of the engineering flair and ingenuity of the early Islamic rulers. We will also discover Bir Barouta, a 17th-century draw well, connected, so the legend says, by an underground channel with the
Zem-Zem spring in Mecca.
Then free time to stroll into the Medina (old town), the ancient marketplace encircled by 11th-century walls. Kairouan also is noted for its souk, the crafting of carpets, and for its delicious pastries. Next we head to the south through a variety of local villages and changing landscapes.
arrival to Gafsa dinner and overnight in Gafsa or in Tozeur.
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In the morning, we will depart to discover 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 desert scenery, visit the mountain oasis of Chebika Tamerza First we will visit Chebika, a mountain oasis which was known as the castle of the sun. The old village of Chebika was destroyed by storms, however some of the dwellings and buildings still remain intact. It was built on a around a steep gorge and provides amazing all round scenery.
We continue our mountain adventure to Tamerza, the largest mountain oases in Tunisa, to visit the palm grove, water-fall and old village. Accomodation at hotel, the reminder of day free or you can have an extra tour ($) to discover Oung El Jemel (neck of the camel), unusual desert rock formation, the site where Star Wars was filmed.
Dinner and overnight.
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Tozeur-Museum of Dates-Chott El Jerid – Douz
The morning, visit of Tozeur, you will have a sightseeing tour of the village his quarter is famous for the unique decorative architecture in brick Also we ill visit the Museum of palm trees a very nicely done exposition about the date alm trees. It offers also a tour inside the oasis an explanation of the irrigation system. This visit will end by a degustation of date products.
Next we will cross the Chott El Jerid. This chott (flat, dry salt lake) is the largest in Tunisia and only becomes an inner sea during the winter rains, this region is also well-known for its “Desert Roses”. We drive to Douz, the oasis town known have a camel ride passing over the majestic sand dunes and picturesque Sahara as the “Gateway to the Sahara” Here you have the opportunity (optional $) to Desert, here the Sahara seems to go on forever.
Dinner and overnight in douz or in Matmata.
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Matmata-Gabès- El Jem Roman Coliseum
Today visit the village of Matmata, of Star Wars notoriety, but more importantly, center of the most extensive number of traditional troglodyte pit homes in the region. To get a feel for troglodyte living visit of one of these dwelling caves, then visit the hotel Sidi Driss, where scenes from the Lars homestead in Star Wars were filmed. Next we stop in Toujène to admire this picturesque Berber hill village with white washed in the
mountains.
Depart to Gabès, the main attraction in the city centre is the souk (Souk Jara) area where locals sell fruit and vegetables, spices, dried fish and mounds of green henna for which the city is renowned, visit of the souks and market spices Continue to El Jem to visit the largest and most spectacular Roman amphitheater in North Africa and the best preserved in the world. The coliseum appears better preserved than the one in Rome and certainly, has seen far less numbers of tourists over the years. This colossal edifice (classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site) which seems to rise out of nowhere was designed with seating for 30,000 people and is similar to Rome’s Coliseum. In the small archaeological museum, see the gorgeous collection of mosaics. Visit the remains of Roman villas behind the museum.
From El Jem, you continue back to the north. Dinner and overnight in Sousse Monastir or Hammamet.
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Enjoy the stay in your hotel or you may explore on your own the city. Breakfast - Dinner.
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Assistance and transfer to Tunis Carthage airport for your departure.
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