Combined Tours

STAR WARS TOURS -TUNISIA

 DAY 1: Tunis airport - Tunis

Upon arrival in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, you will be met and transferred to your hotel in Tunis.

 After checking at Majestic hotel 4*, dinner (buffet) & overnight.

DAY 2: Tunis – Kairouan – Sbeitla - Tozeur

After breakfast, our tour will depart for Kairouan. Kairouan is a city known for its mosques and world famous carpet making craft industry. The great mosque, and the mausoleum of the barber companion of the prophet Mohamed, is two of the city’s famous religious sites. We also visit a carpet making workshop to learn how carpets are designed and handmade. After lunch our tour heads to the archaeological site of Sbeitla. This site presents well preserved ruins such as temples, beautiful baptisteries, a thermal complex, a triumphal arch and forts dating back to the Byzantine period. Sbeitla also hosts an original antiquities museum to display excavated objects. Continue to Tozeur, check in at Ras El Ain hotel 4*. Dinner (buffet) & overnight.

 DAY 3:  Chebika – Tamerza – Chott el Gharsa- Tozeur  (Episode I – II-III and IV )

After breakfast our tour will set out for the mountain oases of Chebika, Tamerza, and Mides. There we will have time to hike through the oasis area and enjoy the beautiful scenery of these amazing desert springs, canyons and waterfalls not far from Algeria. After lunch we visit the “Ong Jemal” among the sand dunes, and the desert site of one of the Star Wars films (episode 1 and 2 and Lars farm episode 2, 3 and 4.)

Back to the hotel of stay in Tozeur. Dinner (buffet) & overnight.

 DAY 4: Bou Hlel – Douz – Matmata    (Episode I – II and IV)

After breakfast, visit of the Star wars Canyon (Episode IV of the desert Jundland, and some passages of the pod race in Episode I) then we cross the dry salt lake of Chott El Jerid. When arriving at Douz there is an optional activity of a camel ride into the Sahara desert (1 hour). After Lunch we drive to Matmata, This part of Tunisia is well known for the unique Berber people who dwelt here for many years before the Arabs came. Matmata boasts the Berber troglodyte housing where Berber people open their troglodyte houses for visitors to have a cup of tea. Also visit Of the Troglodyte hotel Sidi driss a shooting place of the movie “Star Wars Hotel Sidi Driss which includes five courtyards: 4 of them being surrounded by rooms, and the fifth, named “Star court Wars “, constituting the restaurant. It was the setting for the dining room and kitchen in Lars farm. Check in at Diar Barbar hotel 4*. Dinner (buffet) & overnight.

DAY 5:   Ksar Hededa – Tataouine – Ksar Ouled Soltane 

After breakfast, visit of the Ksour region, A Ksar (plural ksour) is the Arabic term for a fortified Berber Granary and is composed of houses and granaries, in organized cells (ghorfas in Arabic) and its where George Lucas drew the name of Tatooine. It was used for filming sets of Mos Espa, in this case the slave quarters, in Episode I (scene where Qui-Gon, Obi-Wan contacted by comlink and scene with Shmi “He did not have a father …”). Departure to the Tataouine for lunch.After lunch visit of Ksar Ouled Soltane, one of the best preserved ksour in Tunisia which includes two separate courts, and more than 400 ghorfas (bins), 4 or 5 levels serving in episode 1 as the slave quarters of Mos Espa, where the character Anakin Skywalker lived as a boy. Check in at Al Rayan hotel 3*, Dinner (buffet) & overnight.

DAY 6: Tataouine – Douiret – Cheneni - Sfax

After breakfast,w’ill continue our exploration of this rugged area, close to the edge of the desert that covers nearly one third of Tunisian territory.  We’ll first visit the remote Dahar village of  Douiret, standing in a magnificent setting of sharply delineated peaks. Its stone buildings and cave homes hang half-way up the steep mountainside and are built around a white mosque.  Afterwards, we’ll reach the village of Chenini, perched on the top of a dizzying ridge, and one of the few Berber-speaking villages still inhabited.  We’ll have a local guide take us along some of the winding paths to visit some of the homes and observe their way of life.

Drive to Sfax, Check in at Radisson Blu Sfax hotel 5*, Dinner (buffet) & overnight

 Day 7: Sfax – El Djem – Sousse – Tunis (Episode I)

After breakfast, departure to El Djem (ancient Thysdrus) to visit the largest and most spectacular Roman Amphitheatres in North Africa and the best preserved in the world. This colossal edifice classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Lunch and departure to Sousse to visit its Medina (old town), a UNESCO World heritage Site. Transfer to your hotel in Tunis. Dinner (buffet) & overnight.

DAY 8: Tunis - Tunis Airport

After breakfast, you will be transferred by car to the airport for departure.

*** End of our services ***

Price per person in double room for 02 pax: 1600 USD

Services included

- Hotel accommodation
- Half board meals (Dinner & Breakfast) 
- English speaking tour guide during the tour
- Transportation in an air-conditioned car

- Driver and guide fees
- Entrance fee to historical and archaeological sites

Services not included

- Airfare / Drinks / Personal spending / Tips /
- Optional Activities
- There will be an additional charge for the camel ride optional activity to be paid on site.