Day 1
Arrival in Tunis
Your guide meets the group at the airport and takes it to the hotel at Gammarth, by the sea, with an orientation meeting for the group.
A seven day Tunisia programme for university groups
Seven days and six nights through the old town of Tunis, the Roman amphitheatre at El Djem, the underground dwellings of Matmata, a night in the Sahara at Ksar Ghilane, the oases of the south-west and the medina of Sousse. An English speaking guide, transport as the programme sets out, and every meal.
$2,050
A person, double occupancy. A single room is $450 more.
The seven days
Day 2
Sidi Bou Said, the medina of Tunis and Hammamet
Sidi Bou Said in the morning, an Andalusian village of blue and white streets above the Mediterranean. Then a walking tour of the medina of Tunis, the historic heart of the city, and the drive south to Hammamet.
Day 3
Hammamet
A day on the coast: beach sports and a team tournament in the morning, the Carthageland park in the afternoon and a dinner by the sea.
Day 4
El Djem, Matmata and Ksar Ghilane
Up the olive coast to El Djem, the Roman amphitheatre of Thysdrus. Then south to Matmata, with lunch in a troglodyte restaurant and a visit to the underground hotel used as the Lars homestead in Star Wars. After that the group leaves the paved road for desert tracks and reaches the camp at Ksar Ghilane in the afternoon, with a camel trek to the Roman fort at sunset.
Day 5
Chott el Jerid, the oases and Sousse
Across the salt flats of Chott el Jerid and through the oasis region of the south-west, where several Star Wars sites remain, the Mos Espa set among them. By jeep to the mountain oasis villages of Chebika and Tamerza, where waterfalls and palm groves sit against barren hills. The night is in Sousse.
Day 6
Sousse
A quad bike tour in the morning, then water sports including parasailing, then the medina of Sousse.
Day 7
Departure
A free morning for the market or the medina, then the transfer to the airport.
The itinerary above is our student programme as the sheet sets it out, seven days and six nights. Yours runs on your own dates, and we will change any day of it.
What the price covers
Included
- Airport transfers
- Hotels
- Transportation as indicated
- English speaking guide
- Entrance fees to all sites
- All meals
- All sites, parks and museums
- All taxes
- Entertainment, including a camel ride, quad biking and parasailing
Not included
- Drinks
Where you sleep
The hotels our programme sheet names for this journey. Where the sheet says or similar, so do we, and a similar property may stand in.
Tunis, 1 night
Day 1El Mouradi Gammarth (or similar)
Four star
Hammamet, 2 nights
Days 2 to 3TUI Blue Manar (or similar)
Ksar Ghilane, 1 night
Day 4Sahara Lounge (or similar)
Four star
Sousse, 2 nights
Days 5 to 6Riadh Palms (or similar)
Four star
What a programme office will ask about safety
The United States government publishes a travel advisory for Tunisia, with a level for the country and separate warnings for specific areas, usually near the Libyan and Algerian borders. Read it at travel.state.gov, because the level and the areas named change and a summary on a tour company's page goes stale.
Tell us what you read, and your institution's own travel policy, and we will tell you exactly where each day of the route goes.
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