Day 1
Arrival in Tunis
Met at the airport and taken to your hotel in Gammarth, with time by the sea and an orientation meeting.
Night in Tunis, at El Mouradi Gammarth (or similar).
Tunisia tour for student groups: 7 days, 6 nights, coast and desert
$2,050
A person, double occupancy. The price a smaller party pays can differ, because your guide, your driver and your vehicle are one cost shared between you. We confirm your own price before anything is booked.
A group programme with its own cost sheet: entertainment included, with a camel ride, quad biking and parasailing, and a night in the desert at Ksar Ghilane.
The journey in brief
- Length
- 7 days, 6 nights
- Price
- $2,050 a person, double occupancy
- Single room supplement
- $450 a person
- Party
- The price a smaller party pays can differ, because your guide, your driver and your vehicle are one cost shared between you. We confirm your own price before anything is booked.
- You sleep in
- Tunis (1 night), Hammamet (2 nights), Ksar Ghilane (1 night) and Sousse (2 nights)
- Meals
- All meals
- Not included
- Drinks
- Best months
- March to May, September to November
Along the way
Sidi Bou Said
Day 2
Hammamet
Day 2
El Djem
Day 4
Chebika
Day 5
Day by day
Day 2
Sidi Bou Said, the medina and Hammamet
Sidi Bou Said in the morning, a village of blue and white streets above the Mediterranean. Then the medina of Tunis, then south to Hammamet.
Night in Hammamet, at TUI Blue Manar (or similar).
Day 3
Hammamet
Beach sports in the morning, then free time, then an evening on the coast.
Night in Hammamet, at TUI Blue Manar (or similar).
Day 4
El Djem, Matmata and Ksar Ghilane
Up the olive coast to El Djem and the Roman colosseum. Then Matmata, lunch in a troglodyte restaurant, and the dwelling used as the Lars homestead. Then south off the tarmac to the desert encampment at Ksar Ghilane, with a camel trek out to the Roman fort for sunset.
Night in Ksar Ghilane, at Sahara Lounge (or similar).
Day 5
Chott el Jerid, the oases and the Star Wars sets
Across the salt flats of Chott el Jerid and into the southwest oasis region, where several Star Wars sites remain, including the Mos Espa set. Then by jeep to the mountain oases of Chebika and Tamerza.
Night in Sousse, at Riadh Palms (or similar).
Day 6
Sousse
A quad bike tour, then water sports including parasailing, then the medina and an evening in Sousse.
Night in Sousse, at Riadh Palms (or similar).
Day 7
Departure
A free morning for the market or the medina, then transfer to the airport.
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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 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
When to go
We suggest March to May and September to November for this journey. We leave out any month in which the average daytime high reaches 95F (35C) at a place on this route that the table covers, and we leave out December to February.
- The places that reach the line are days out and not nights: Chott el Jerid and Mos Espa, El Djem and Matmata.
- Chott el Jerid and Mos Espa: an average daytime high of 98.1F (36.7C) in June, 103.1F (39.5C) in July and 102.7F (39.3C) in August.
- El Djem: an average daytime high of 99.9F (37.7C) in July and 99.5F (37.5C) in August.
- Matmata: an average daytime high of 97.2F (36.2C) in August.
- Tunis stays under the line all year. August is the warmest month the Institut lists for it: 93.4F (34.1C) at Tunis.
- September is the warm edge of that window, and the Institut puts it just under the line: Chott el Jerid and Mos Espa average 94.3F (34.6C).
- We leave out December to February. Tunis is at its wettest in December, with 75.2mm (3.0 in) of rain, and in January, with 63.1mm (2.5 in), and those three months are the coolest of the year at Tunis and at Tozeur.
- Nights in the desert are cool in winter. The January average low is 43.9F (6.6C) at Tozeur and 40.3F (4.6C) at Kebili, the Institut's station for Douz.
Source: Institut National de la Météorologie, Tunisia's national weather service. The figures are its long term monthly averages, and no station sits at a site. The choice of months is our advice, and none of our programme sheets states a season. Each figure is from the Institut's station nearest the place: Tunis-Carthage for Tunis, Kairouan for El Djem and Tozeur for Chott el Jerid and Mos Espa.
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