Itinerary:

Day 1. Resort Hotel/Kairouan/Gabes/Medenine/Tataouine

Early morning departure from your resort hotel and travel to the Holy City of Kairouan which was

declared a UNESCO World Cultural site in 1988.Visit the Great Mosque, the Mosque of the Three

Doors in the Medina and the souks. Travel south to the maritime oasis town of Gabes take lunch and

visit the Spice Market. Continue journey via Medenine (the area is dotted with ksars, the local name

for the Berber fortresses, and ghorfas, which once housed the grains of the Berbers) to Tataouine.

Dinner and overnight in Tataouine.

Day 2. Tataouine/Ksar Oued Soltane/Chenini/Ksar Ghilane

After breakfast visit the town of Tataouine where its market day. Then travel to Ksar Oued Soltane.

Located on a hilltop, it is one of the biggest ksars in the region, and a popular tourist destination

because of its well-preserved granary vaults. Some of the slave-quarters scenes in the Star Wars film

“The Phantom Menace” were also shot here. Continue your journey through Berber country to the

mountain village of Chenini. The oldest structures on the hillside date back to the 12th century; some

of the buildings are still used to store grain for the villagers living in the valley below. Take lunch in

Chenini and after travel to another mountain village at Douiret, then its deeper into the desert to Ksar

Ghilane for our night under the stars. Dinner and overnight at your choice (made at time of booking) of

traditional or luxury tented encampment.

Day 3. Ksar Ghilane/Matmata/Mahares/Sfax/El Djem/Resort Hotel

After breakfast travel to Matmata where you can visit a Troglodyte cave dwelling and the Hotel Sidi

Driss (which featured as Luke Skywalkers home in the film Star Wars). Travel north to Mahares for

lunch. Continue your journey north via Sfax (Tunisia’s second largest city) to the Roman Coliseum at

El Djem. Make a visit of the Roman Amphitheatre and afterwards travel back to your resort hotel.