Tunisia: Star Wars Tour
Follow the landscapes and filming locations that helped create Tatooine, from desert sets to troglodyte villages and oasis scenery.
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Tell us your arrival details, travel style, and pace. We will shape the tour, transfers, stays, visits, and local support around your trip.
Hotel note: Hotel names mentioned in this itinerary are examples of the expected category or location. They are not guaranteed default hotels; the final hotel selection depends on availability and your preferred standard.
ITINERARY DETAILS:
Day 1
DAY 1: Tunis / Arrival Upon arrival in Tunis, the capital of Tunisia, you will be met and transferred to your hotel. After checking in, dinner & overnight. *Example hotel: (Eden Yasmine Hammamet4****)
*Meals: dinner
Day 2
DAY 2: Tunis – Kairouan – 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, are 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 the hotel. Dinner & overnight. *Example hotel: (El Mouradi Toz optional, payable locally ****)
*Meals: breakfast, dinner
Day 3
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 in Tozeur. Dinner & overnight. *Example hotel: (El Mouradi Toz optional, payable locally ****)
*Meals: breakfast, dinner
Day 4
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 the hotel. Dinner & overnight. * Troglodite Hotel: (Star Wars hotel Sidi Dris)
* Meals: breakfast, dinner
Day 5
DAY 5: Ksar Hededa – Tataouine – Ksar Ouled Soltane – Djerba. (Episode I ) 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. Drive to Djerba island. Check in at the hotel. Dinner & overnight. * Example hotel: ( El Mouradi Djerba Menzel 4****)
* Meals: Breakfast, dinner
Day 6
DAY 6: Djerba Island Ajim – Sidi Jemour – Guellala – Djerba Island (Episodes IV ) After breakfast, departure to the near town of Ajim for a visit of the house of Ben Kenobi during his exile on Tatooine. Episode 4. Then to Sidi Jemour where 2 scenes of Episode 4where filmed, the cut scene outside Anchorhead and The scene of arrival of Luke and Ben speeder in Mos. Lunch and after lunch visit of the oldest Synagogue in north Africa and the pottery town of Guellala. Back to the hotel. Dinner & overnight. * Example hotel: ( El Mouradi Djerba Menzel 4****)
* Meals: Breakfast, dinner
Day 7
Day 7: Gabes – El Djem – Sousse – Hammamet (Episode I ) After breakfast, departure to ksar Medenine where two scenes from episode 1 where the scenes of arrival of Anakin in the storm, and the departure of Anakin and Qui-Gon farewell to Shmiwhere filmed. The place is known since as “Skywalker Alley. Departure to the maritime oasis of Gabes for a visit the the Spice market, 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 Hammamet. Dinner & overnight. *Example hotel: (Eden Yasmine 4****)
* Meals: dinner
Day 8
DAY 8: TUNIS / DEPARTURE
After breakfast, you will be transferred by bus to the airport for departure. * Meals: Breakfast,
What’s Included
- Private air-conditioned vehicle / transport.
- Professional driver.
- English-speaking or multilingual licensed guide.
- Hotel accommodation, the one listed or similar.
- Hotel taxes and service charges.
- Breakfast and/or half-board meals depending on the itinerary.
- Entrance fees to listed sites and museums.
- 4×4 desert excursion if listed in the tour.
What’s Not Included
- International airfare.
- Travel insurance.
- Drinks.
- Tips / gratuities.
- Personal expenses.
- Lunches unless stated.
- Optional activities such as camel ride, ULM flight, caleche, quad/go-kart, boat trip, folkloric dinner.
- Camera/video fees on some older day tours.
- Any service not clearly mentioned as included.
Private Tour Quote
| Group size |
Total private tour quote |
Price per person |
| 1 person |
3,763 EUR |
3,763 EUR |
| 2 persons |
4,088 EUR |
2,044 EUR |
| 4 persons |
5,088 EUR |
1,272 EUR |
| 6 persons |
6,275 EUR |
1,046 EUR |
| 8 persons |
7,275 EUR |
910 EUR |
Prices are indicative and subject to final confirmation according to travel dates, hotel availability, rooming, guide availability and tailor-made requests.
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- Saif manages the first contact and request follow-up.
- Monsef brings more than 40 years of tourism experience in Tunisia, speaking Arabic, French, English, German and Italian.
- Mehdi, an archaeology guide, supports heritage tours in French and English.
- Depending on the route, we work with carefully selected freelance licensed guides to cover more languages and special interests.
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