Day 1 · Tunis
Arrive in Tunis
You are met at Tunis-Carthage airport and driven to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to rest or look around, with dinner at the hotel.
- Meals
- Dinner
- Travel
- 25 km, about 1 hour
5 days · 4 nights
The quieter, greener north of Tunisia, from harbour towns to Roman cities half underground.
Choose your dates when you enquire
Ask about datesA short loop from Tunis through the north of the country. You head up the coast to Bizerte and across hills and farmland to Tabarka, then turn inland through a run of Roman sites before ending at Carthage.
The same person from your first question to the flight home, with a wedding or vow renewal planned alongside if you like.
How the days unfold. Your advisor tailors the pace, the hotels and the extras to you.
+1 day beforeA night in Tunis first
Tunis
Day 1 · Tunis
You are met at Tunis-Carthage airport and driven to your hotel. The rest of the day is free to rest or look around, with dinner at the hotel.
Bizerte
Day 2 · Bizerte
Start at the Bardo National Museum, set in an old palace and known for its mosaics. Drive north to the Phoenician and Carthaginian site of Utique, then on to Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa, for lunch and an afternoon with your guide around the old port.
Tabarka
Day 3 · Tabarka
A day of countryside, crossing green fields and hills with glimpses of the Mediterranean. Stop in Sejnene, a village known for the handmade pottery of its women potters, then reach Tabarka for lunch, its fort, the needle rocks along the shore, the old port and the coral shops.
Bulla Regia, Dougga and Tunis
Day 4 · Bulla Regia, Dougga and Tunis
Begin at Ain Drahem, with its hot springs and Roman bath ruins, then walk through the underground homes of Bulla Regia. After lunch at Dougga, the best preserved small Roman town in North Africa, stop at the theatre of Uthina before returning to Tunis.
Carthage and Tunis
Day 5 · Carthage and Tunis
A morning visit to the ruins of Carthage, once the capital of a trading empire, before your transfer to the airport. Book a flight after 2pm so you can join the visit.
+1 day afterA last night in Tunis
The hotels for each stop. Your advisor confirms them, or something just as good, for your dates.
Tunis · 2 nights
Your first night and the night after Dougga. Or similar
Bizerte · 1 night
Or similar
Tabarka · 1 night
Or similar
Add a few days before or after. Your advisor quotes them with the journey.
Before the journey · +1 day
Arrive a day early and rest in Tunis on a bed and breakfast basis before the tour begins.
After the journey · +1 day
Stay on in Tunis after Carthage on a bed and breakfast basis, with transfers arranged separately.
Tell us when you would like to travel. Your advisor confirms dates and hotels, tailors the trip to the two of you, and stays with you until you are home.
Tunisia
6 days · 5 nights
Tunis → Hammamet → Matmata → Djerba → Tunis
After a first night at Hammamet, a 4x4 carries a small group south past the amphitheatre of El Djem to Matmata, the ksour of Tataouine and Chenini, and two nights on Djerba. The drive north takes in the Great Mosque of Kairouan, and the trip ends with a morning in the medina of Tunis.
Tunisia
7 days · 6 nights
Tunis → Gammarth → Hammamet → Kairouan → Sousse → Gammarth → Tunis
Collect your car at Tunis airport and base yourselves for two nights at Gammarth, close to Carthage, Sidi Bou Said and the medina. Then drive south to Hammamet, inland to Kairouan, past El Djem to Sousse, and back up the coast for a last night at Gammarth.
Tunisia
8 days · 7 nights
Tunis → Hammamet → Tozeur → Douz → Djerba → Sousse → Tunis
From a first night in Hammamet, the group heads inland to Kairouan and on to the palm town of Tozeur. You cross the Chott el Djerid salt lake to Douz at the edge of the Sahara, visit the cave homes of Matmata, and spend two nights on Djerba before returning north by way of El Djem, Sousse, Sidi Bou Said and Carthage.
A short loop from Tunis through the north of the country. You head up the coast to Bizerte and across hills and farmland to Tabarka, then turn inland through a run of Roman sites before ending at Carthage.
Every trip can be shaped around you before you book.
Arrive early or stay on at the end, in the same hotel or somewhere new.
Your travel expert books flights that fit the first and last day.
Choose a better room or a hotel with a view for the nights that count.
A honeymoon, an anniversary or a birthday, planned into the trip.
Other ways to see Tunisia, closest in length first.
Small group tour | 6 days | Tunis · Hammamet · Sousse
Small group tour | 6 days | Tunis · Hammamet · Djerba
Small group tour | 6 days | Tunis · Kairouan · Hammamet
Small group tour | 3 days | Tunis · Hammamet · Sousse
