Archeology and architecture abound with influence from Roman and Arab-Islamic cultures. You stay in four and five star hotels as well as in a magical Berber camp, with wood furniture and hot showers, located in a desert oasis with palm trees and views that extend forever. The English Patient and Star Wars both used this diverse country for filming.
Your Itinerary:
Day 1: Transfer from Tozeur Airport to your four star hotel. Visit the Oasis of Tozeur by carriage, and enjoy dinner with entertainment.
Day 2: Start at the Chebika mountain oasis, and meet your Barb or Arab-Barb horse. Ride by the massif of the oriental Atlas, where the English Patient was filmed, and into the mountains, following the course of the Oued. Ride to the bottom of a magnificent canyon to the first cascade of Tameza. Ride through open land and by a river and into the palm tree forest to reach your five star hotel, with a panoramic view of the ruins of the old village of Tamerza.
Day 3–4: Head to the high canyon of the Djebel Redaieff, up into the mountains, to reach a point with a spectacular of the desert. Ride down to the deluxe camp for the next two nights. Ride to the Sahara Desert with long canters and a chance to see wild camels. Head to the Neflayett palm tree forest.
Day 5–6: Head to the oasis of Ibn Chabat, through the Sahara landscape. Ride on the salty lake of the Chott el Garsa, and into the sand dunes of the desert to reach Aariguet, featured in the filming of Star Wars. The moonscape continues (alternating sand and salty lake) as you ride to the city of Nefta. Stay in a 4 star hotel.
Day 7: Ride to the Chott el Jerid (the second largest salt lake in the world) and ride on the lake itself. Canter to the Tozeur palm tree forest.
Day 8: Breakfast and transfer to the Tozeur Airport.
Dates: January 4-11, January 18-25, February 1-8, February 22-29, March 7- 14, October 10-17, October 24-31, November 7-14, November 21-28, December 5-12, December 26-January 2.
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
$2175 per person, sharing; $285 single supplement.
Price Includes:
- 7 nights accommodation in 4 and 5 star hotels and Berber Camp
- 6 days guided trail riding
- All meals (alcohol not included)
- Horse
- Tack
- Guide
- Luggage transfers
- Transfers to/from Tozeur Airport
- Tax.
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Tunisia
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