Two days gets you to the dunes; three gets you the oases and the film sets; four adds the ksour of the deep south. Everything shorter than two days is a listing promising something it cannot deliver — Tunis to Douz alone is about 426 km, roughly six hours each way. October to April is the season; the far south regularly passes 45°C from May to September.
Two at the absolute minimum, three to do it without rushing. A two-day trip gives you an evening and a morning in the desert; a three-day adds the mountain oases at Tamerza and Chebika and the Star Wars sets at Ong Jemal.
Yes. Several of our circuits include a night in a desert camp at Ksar Ghilane, with dinner by the fire. The camp cost is quoted with your dates rather than being buried in the headline price.
A salt lake of roughly 5,000 square kilometres, crossed by a causeway. It is one of the strangest drives in the country — flat white salt to the horizon, with mirages for most of the year.
Distances are straight-line, measured between the coordinates on our map of the sites; road distances are longer. Prices are per vehicle and come from the same database the 28 tours and 1,392 transfer fares are quoted from.
