tunisia explorer

Arriving in the airport assistance and transfer to the hotel Bel azure;

You will find me in the airport to bring you to the hotel in hammamet check-in, dinner and overnight in the hotel

Day 2

Departure from hammamet to visit the museum holding the biggest collection of roman mosaics in the world almost 9000m² of mosaics the visit will be guided and I will show you not the way to explain a mosaic because it is too easy to do that and everybody can do it but, I will show the way how to talk to and with the mosaic and make the mosaic talking.

After that we will be visiting the medina of Tunis starting and crossing the main avenue Habib Bourguiba avenue where the “revolution” in 2011 started, then I will give you a free time inside the medina.

Lunch will be in “la goulette” fish restaurant, and then we will go to the most visited archeological site in Tunisia “cartage” we will start by the Tophet: the open top sanctuary used in Carthaginian times for burning children, after that we will have a photo stop in front of the two Punic ports and finally we will be spent more time in visiting the Antonin baths in cartage 20m far from the palace of the Tunisian president.

The last visit will be the arabo-andalousian village sidi boussaid the blue and white village.

Dinner and overnight in hammamet.

Day 3

At 08:00 departure from the hotel tacking the motorway joining between Hammamet and Baja.

A short stop after 100 km in a petrol station for using the restrooms for 20 min, and then we continue our way up to the best preserved roman archeological site (opened to the visit) in Africa.

 I am at your recommendations if you want to stop in any place for photos.

The visit will be with me (Tunisian professional aggregated tour guide, proudly doing this job from 15 years ago) stating by the Forum, the capitol, the second forum, the slave-market, the prostitute place of living, the public baths, the public toilets and the theater. (the visit will last 2h15min)

Lunch in hotel “thugga” and then continiue to kairouan; a stop after 100 km in seliana then dinner and overnight in hotel “Kasbah” Kairouan 5* “

Day 4

After breakfast, visit to the last 2 pools left from Muslims in Kairouan, then continue to visit the mausoleum of sidi Saheb one of the companions were with the prophet for Muslims Mohamed, and his barber, he came to Tunisia with others to bring the new religion to the north of Africa, after his death they built his tomb and a mausoleum. inside the building we will be talking about the decoration of every room and in the same time we will talk about the ritual of circumcision was happening in this place.

Then we will move to visit the first religious monument built for Muslims in Africa: the great mosque of Kairouan with its very symbolic minaret.

Then we will be crossing the old city built by Muslims in kairouan and we will be admiring the architecture and the decoration of the outside of traditional houses, following the narrow streets and very colorful doors and windows.

Lunch in hotel la Kasbah kairouan then continue to tozeur.

Two stops on the way in tozeur after 100 km each and we will be arriving to tozeur around sunset.

Dinner and overnight in hotel GOLDENYASMIN RAS EL AIN

Day 5

Departure from the hotel (in 4*4 car) before sunrise to the place of filming of Star Wars and we will have sunrise on the sand dunes. And free time for photos in MOSESPA city of Star Wars surrounded by sand dunes.

Then departure to visit the mountain oasis of chebika: a green point naturally created in the middle of the Atlas Mountains you will be able to see the starting point of the natural spring: the water is directly going out between two rocks; after that the small lacke, and finally the waterfall. (some scenes of the film ‘the black gold’ of ANTONIO BANDERAS were filmed over there.

After that, we will be visiting the mountain oasis of chebika the waterfall created from the river coming from Algeria and the place of filming of the ENGLISH PATIENT”.

Lunch in the hotel in tozeur and continue to douz crossing the biggest Salt Lake in Africa: a photo stops in the Salt Lake for 30min then we continue to douz for the optional camel ride: (you will be one person on one camel guided by the camel man dressed like Laurence and Florence of Arabia “desert dress code” crossing the sand dunes for one hour.

Continue to ksar ghilan camp dinner and overnight in Zmela camp.

Day 6

Departure from the camp to visit the Berber houses “troglodyte dwellings of matmata “caves”. we will be received by a local family and they will be opening the house for us to visit it, we will be moving from cave to another and they will offer to us: (honey olive oil Berber bred locally made and tea with mint) for free.

Lunch will be in a Star Wars place of filming in matmata “hotel sidi driss”.

Continue to gabes to visit the spice market; then we will continue our way to sfax for dinner and overnight in hotel ibis or similar.

Day 7

Departure from sfax and visit the 3rd biggest roman colosseum in the world; inside we will be explaining to you the way of building, the gladiator fights 1st and 2nd flour, the underground flour where the lions use to be living. After that we will be visiting the tomb of Habib bourguiba the first president of Tunisia and you will see the decoration from the outside of the tome it will be similar to the mosque of Jerusalem and for the inside you will have a palace covered with Italian marble, holding the personal belongings, photos, diploma, the personal desk of the man who is considered like the builder of Tunisia.

After that lunch in restaurant les escargot in Sousse, visit to the leisure port “El Kantaoui”

Dinner and overnight in Hammamet.

Day 8

Free day (myself and the car will be at your disposition if you want to go to any place around hammamet) .

dinner and overnight in hammamet.

Day 9

Moving to sidi boussaid free day and dinner and overnight there.

Day 10 transfert to the airport.