Day 1: Arrival, welcome at the airport by your guide, and transfer to a city hotel in the capital. Free time for rest, dinner, and overnight stay.
Day 2: Embark on an adventure with your guide to discover the oriental charm of the lively souks of the medina. Lunch. Check out the ancient site of Carthage. Continue to Sidi Bou Said, a picturesque village with Arab-Andalusian architecture.
Head to Kairouan. Arrive at the hotel for dinner and an overnight stay
Day 3: Visit Kairouan, “the city of 300 mosques.” Kairouan is the oldest Muslim city in the Maghreb. Discover the ancient Sidi Sahbi and Okba mosques, which look like a fortress, the ramparts and the Aghlabid basins, the city's ancient water reservoirs. Lunch. Walk in the medina nestled inside the ramparts and visit a weaving workshop.
Continue towards the desert in the direction of Tozeur.
Arrival at the hotel for dinner, rest, and overnight stay.
Day 4: Breakfast and visit to the medina and its brick facades typical of the region, then discover the palm grove fed by more than 200 springs. After lunch, you can choose between visiting the Museum of Traditions, which houses a collection of art objects from the 17th to the 20th centuries, or taking the 4x4 for an unforgettable getaway between the sand dunes to discover Chebika and Tamerza, mountain villages that have lived to the rhythm of their oases for nearly 2000 years and have nevertheless preserved their traditional architecture. Towards sunset, you'll reach Ong Jmal in the Sahara, still in a 4x4. Ong Jmal is best known for being the setting for several scenes in George Lucas' famous “Star Wars” saga. The site welcomes a lot of tourists and festivals every year, like the Electronic Dunes Festival. Head back to Tozeur for dinner and a night's stay.
Day 5: Breakfast and departure to Douz and Matmata via Chott El Djerid, a huge dried-up salt lake famous for its breathtaking mirages.
Arrival in Douz, free time for a camel ride or quad ride as you wish
Lunch. We'll then head to Matmata, an amazing Berber village made up of troglodyte houses dug into the ground that give the landscape a truly lunar appearance. You'll visit the site and a Berber house.
Arrival at the hotel in Matmata, dinner, and overnight stay.
Day 6: El Jem, Monastir, Sousse
Breakfast and then we head north towards El Jem, a real stone ship in the middle of an arid steppe. Visit the Colosseum, 35 m high, which could accommodate 35,000 spectators, the largest Roman monument in Africa and the 2nd largest amphitheatre in the Mediterranean.
Lunch and departure to Monastir. The city is known for its mosques and religious buildings, its lively medina and souks, its mausoleum, and its forts. Continue to Sousse. Night tour for morning departures.
Day 7: City tour, including the medina and El Kantaoui port. Afternoon transfer to the airport for departure.