Six days from the Mediterranean to the dunes, taking in five UNESCO sites on the way down: Carthage and Sidi Bou Saïd, the Tunis medina, Dougga, Kairouan and El Jem, then Tozeur, the Chott el Jerid crossing, Douz and Matmata.
6-Day Grand Tour of Tunisia: North to Sahara: 6 days / 5 nights from Tunis taking in 23 places, with a car and driver for your group only — from €942 per vehicle for up to 4 travellers.
This is the country in one journey rather than a series of day trips out of one hotel. You start on the coast at Carthage and Sidi Bou Saïd, cut inland through Dougga's hillside forum, sleep at Kairouan, stand in the El Jem arena, then keep going south until the farmland stops and the Chott el Jerid begins.
Six days is the shortest circuit that reaches the Sahara without the whole trip becoming driving. The car is yours throughout, so mornings start when you decide and a place that holds you gets the extra hour. Hotels along the route are confirmed with your dates when you book.
Every stop on this tour, explained one by one →
Desert nights are cold from November to February: bring a fleece even when the day was 25°C. Sandstorms are possible in spring and can close a piste for a day.
Yes. The vehicle is yours alone — no other travellers are added, and there is no pick-up round of other hotels before the day starts. The price is for the vehicle, not per seat.
The price is €942 for the whole vehicle, which carries up to 4 people. For a full group that works out at about €236 each; for two people it is half the total between you.
Pick-up is from your hotel in Tunis, at the time you choose. Tell us where you are staying when you book and the driver comes to the door.
October to April. This itinerary goes into the deep south, which regularly passes 45°C between May and September — the sites are still open, but the middle of the day becomes hard work.
No. The price covers the vehicle and the driver. Accommodation along the route is arranged for you and quoted with your dates — tell us how many of you there are and we come back with the whole figure before you commit.
Yes. Up to eight travel in one minivan; nine or ten in two vehicles with the same driver team; from eleven we put you in a minibus (up to 20) or a coach (up to 50, more on request), with a driver-guide who knows the sites. The price stays per vehicle and is quoted personally — send us the number and the date and you have the figure within the hour.
The Punic capital Rome destroyed and rebuilt — baths, ports and villas above the sea
Grand Tunis
A clifftop village of blue doors and whitewashed walls above the Gulf of Tunis
Grand Tunis
A UNESCO-listed maze of souks, mosques and palaces, still trading as it has for centuries
Grand Tunis
The best-preserved Roman town in North Africa, standing almost alone in the hills
BéjaFounded by Andalusian exiles, its minaret carrying a clock that runs backwards
BéjaA Roman town that built its villas underground, mosaics still on the floors
Jendouba
Islam’s fourth holy city, built around the Great Mosque and its vast cisterns
Kairouan
A desert oasis of patterned brickwork, its palm grove fed by hundreds of springs
Tozeur
The Star Wars set still standing in open dunes, beside the camel-neck rock of Ong Jemal
TozeurA mountain oasis where a spring runs through a gorge above the salt flats
TozeurA deserted mountain village beside a canyon and a year-round waterfall
TozeurA sheer-walled gorge on the Algerian border, used more than once as a natural film set
Tozeur
A vast salt lake crossed on a causeway, its salt flats bright enough to throw mirages the whole way over
Tozeur
The gateway to the Sahara and its camel treks, where the tarmac stops and the erg begins
Kébili
Troglodyte Berber houses carved down into the earth, familiar from the Star Wars films
GabèsA stone village spilling down the mountainside above the Matmata plateau
Gabès
The town of fortified granaries that lent its name to the Star Wars desert planet
TataouineA town under cliffs honeycombed with cave dwellings, and the home of the ftair pastry
TataouineA fortified granary of vaulted cells, used as the slave quarters in The Phantom Menace
Tataouine
A Berber village stacked on a ridge, cave houses around a white hilltop mosque
TataouineA half-abandoned Berber village on a ridge, its white mosque above rows of cliff dwellings
Tataouine
Four storeys of vaulted grain cells around two courtyards, the best-kept ksar of all
Tataouine
The Roman amphitheatre often called the Colosseum of Africa, among the best preserved anywhere
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