Touch down at Tunis–Carthage International Airport (TUN), gateway to North Africa’s storied coastline and the historic heart of Tunisia. After immigration and baggage claim, meet our airport team and your private driver for a seamless transfer to your hotel in central Tunis, the nation’s lively capital where Mediterranean light meets Maghrebi soul.

Settle into your room and exhale after the journey. The remainder of the day is at leisure: stroll the plane trees of Avenue Habib Bourguiba, browse brass lamps and hand-painted ceramics in the Medina of Tunis (UNESCO-listed), or ride the TGM coastal train to Sidi Bou Saïd for mint tea, blue-and-white vistas, and sea-breeze calm. As dusk falls, Tunis glows—café chatter, oud melodies, and the warm aroma of harissa, cumin and grilled seafood drifting from bistros.

In the evening, enjoy a welcome dinner—perhaps brik à l’œuf (crispy filo with egg and tuna), fragrant couscous with sea bass, and orange-blossom desserts—before a restful night in the capital.

Meals: Dinner • Overnight: Tunis hotel.

After breakfast, trace the coast to picture-perfect Sidi Bou Saïd, the cliff-top village of whitewashed walls and indigo-blue doors. Wander cobbled lanes perfumed with jasmine, browse artisan galleries, and pause for mint tea as the Mediterranean flares turquoise below—an iconic view that has inspired painters, poets, and travellers for a century.

Continue to Carthage, its ruins scattered along a spectacular shoreline. Explore the vast Antonine Baths, peek into ancient cisterns and residential quarters, and climb viewpoints over the Punic harbours where a thalassocratic power once ruled the seas. At the Carthage Amphitheatre, imagine Roman crowds and modern performances—the site still hosts the famed International Music Festival each summer.

After a tasty lunch, return to the capital for the celebrated Bardo National Museum. Housed in a former Beylical palace, its galleries unveil one of the world’s richest collections of Roman mosaics—hunting scenes, sea nymphs, and mythic epics shimmering in stone. Then slip into the UNESCO-listed Medina of Tunis: brass-beaters at work, perfume souks, hidden courtyard palaces—time at leisure to soak up the rhythm of the old city.

By late afternoon, drive south along citrus groves and sandy coves to the Hammamet area. Check in, breathe the sea air, and unwind before a leisurely dinner.

Meals: Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner  |  Overnight: Hammamet area hotel

After a leisurely breakfast, leave the Cap Bon shoreline for inland hills and olive groves bound for Dougga—a UNESCO World Heritage Site and arguably the best-preserved small Roman town in North Africa. The approach is spectacular: terraces of green rolling up to a limestone ridge, then the city appears in profile—forum columns, theatre tiers, and Punic foundations etched into the slope.

Walk the flagstone streets where layers of Roman, Punic and Byzantine heritage intertwine. Admire the exquisite Capitol (Temple of Jupiter, Juno & Minerva) with its soaring Corinthian façade; sit awhile on the semicircles of the Roman Theatre with panoramic countryside views; trace mosaicked thresholds of patrician houses; and explore the Libyco-Punic Mausoleum, a rare pre-Roman survivor. Cisterns, baths and the forum complete a remarkably intact civic blueprint—a time capsule of urban life on Rome’s frontier.

Enjoy a local lunch showcasing interior Tunisian flavours, then travel south to Kairouan, Tunisia’s spiritual heart and a revered centre of Maghrebi Islam. As the desert light softens, enter the city of minarets and craftsmen: glimpse the monumental Great Mosque of Uqba, the historic Aghlabid Basins, and the UNESCO-listed medina with its honeyed brickwork and ornate doors. On arrival, check in and unwind before a flavourful dinner.

Meals: Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner  |  Overnight: Kairouan hotel

After breakfast, meet your guide for a slow, story-rich wander through the UNESCO-listed medina of Kairouan, Tunisia’s spiritual capital. Whitewashed lanes thread between courtyard homes and artisan workshops where carpet looms clack and copper gleams in shopfronts. The city’s heartbeat is the monumental Great Mosque of Kairouan (Uqba Mosque), founded in AD 670: a vast arcaded sanctuary, mighty columns reclaimed from antiquity, and a tiered square minaret that anchors the skyline.

Continue to the remarkable Aghlabid Basins, masterpieces of early medieval hydraulic engineering. Two colossal circular reservoirs and adjoining cisterns once secured the city’s water for decades at a time—an elegant solution to arid-steppe living that still impresses with its scale and precision. Pause for a local lunch, sampling regional breads, olive oils and spiced salads.

In the afternoon, drive south via Gafsa, where the Sahel plains give way to palm-fringed oases and desert escarpments. By late day, arrive in Tozeur, the famed oasis city of palm trees, its old quarter built from warm, honey-coloured brick in intricate geometric patterns. Feel the change of air as date palms whisper over irrigation channels and sunset lights the desert rim. Check in to your hotel, then savour a flavourful dinner showcasing oasis produce.

Meals: Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner  |  Overnight: Tozeur hotel

After a delectable hotel breakfast, embrace a full day to enjoy Tozeur at your own pace. Laze beneath whispering date palms, meander the Ouled el-Hadef brickwork medina, or add an optional adventure into the desert-fringed oases. The town’s golden façades, palm-shadowed lanes and lantern-lit courtyards make an atmospheric backdrop for slow exploration and timeless photographs.

Fancy widening the horizon? Choose from classic experiences: a 4×4 into the Mountain Oases of Chebika, Tamerza & Mides with canyon walks and cascades; a drive across the shimmering Chott el Jerid salt pan where mirages blur earth and sky; or a dunes-and-erg loop to Ong Jmel and the famed Mos Espa film set. Prefer culture in town? Visit Dar Cheraït Museum, sample fresh-deglet dates at a working palmery, or clip-clop by calèche (horse-drawn carriage) through the oasis at sunset.

As evening lights soften the palm crowns, settle in for a flavourful dinner showcasing oasis produce and Tunisian spices. Let the warm night air, star-pricked skies and scent of jasmine seal a languid desert day.

Meals: Breakfast • Lunch • Dinner  |  Overnight: Tozeur hotel

After breakfast, take a last look at Tozeur’s sandy-hued brick façades, where geometric patterns ripple across house fronts like woven tapestries. Rolling east, the landscape opens to the country’s largest salt pan, the legendary Chott el Djerid. Here the horizon dissolves into white crusts, rose-tinted shallows and heat-shimmering mirages—a surreal stage that has doubled as other worlds in cinema lore.

Pause for photographs where the causeway skims the basin and watch light play across hexagonal salt polygons. When winter moisture lingers, shallow waters mirror the Saharan sky; in drier months, the pan gleams like alabaster. Continue to Douz, the famed “gateway to the Sahara”, framed by rolling dunes and groves of deglet nour palms.

Settle in and enjoy a leisurely lunch. This afternoon is yours to relax by the pool, wander palm gardens,
or opt (locally, time permitting) for a short camel ride onto wind-brushed dunes at golden hour. As twilight falls, the desert exhales a cooling breeze and the first stars stitch silver threads above the erg.

Savour a flavour-forward dinner of oasis produce and spices, then drift to sleep to the hush of the desert night.

Meals: Lunch • Dinner (Breakfast earlier in Tozeur)  |  Overnight: Douz hotel

After a hearty breakfast, leave the gateway to the Sahara behind and climb into the honeyed hills of
Matmata. Here, Tunisian Berbers carved troglodyte homes deep into the earth—cool, circular courtyards dropping to cave-like rooms, a living architecture shaped by climate and tradition. Step inside one of the best-preserved, still-inhabited dwellings and trace soot-dark kitchens, grain niches and low-arched passages. Film lovers can detour to the local Star Wars set, where desert sci-fi meets age-old ingenuity.

Continue north to the palm-trimmed village of El Djem and its astonishing Roman amphitheatre—the third largest in the ancient world and among the most immaculately preserved. Stand in the galleries to feel the ellipse breathe; descend to the hypogeum corridors where gladiators once waited for the roar of 35,000 spectators. After a flavoursome local lunch, roll on to the Mediterranean light of Sousse.

Check in, refresh, then wander the chic marina at Port El Kantaoui with your guide. Yachts chime against their moorings; cafés pour café turc and fresh citrus; boutiques brim with olive-wood crafts, woven foutas and cedar scents—ideal for souvenir shopping before your farewell night on the coast.

As dusk washes the waterfront in gold, sit down to a relaxed dinner of coastal cuisine and toast the arc of your journey—desert troves, Roman grandeur and a soft Mediterranean finale.

Meals: Lunch • Dinner (Breakfast earlier in Douz)  |  Overnight: Sousse hotel

Savour a final breakfast by the Mediterranean before check-out. Your driver meets you in the lobby for a smooth transfer to the airport, with assistance for luggage and departure formalities. As the coast slips from view, carry with you the textures of Tunisia—Sahara sands, blue-and-white villages, and Roman stone glowing in the sun.

Meals: Breakfast  |  Transfer: Sousse hotel → Airport (private/shared)