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Desert
No holiday to Tunisia is complete without taking a trip to the Sahara Desert. The Sahara Desert region of Tunisia is a great draw. In this small country, the Sahara stretches from Douz to the tiny settlement of Borj el-Khadra, more than 350 km to the south. The main Saharan section - the Grand Erg Oriental begins about 50 km south of Douz and extends almost 500 km southwest into neighboring Algeria. It is extends into southern Tunisia and covers about 40 percent of the country�s land area. Camels are still used as a means of transportation in some parts of the desert Further into the desert region you can visit Tataouine, Ksar Haddada,Tamerza, Gafsa,Douz and a luxury desert encampment at Ksar Ghilane wish is a desert oasis where you can camp in traditional Bedouin or luxury air-conditioned tents. Matmata, home of the cave-dwelling Troglodyte people,the town of Douz is often called the gateway to the desert. Amongst all the sand, it was amazing to think that the largest of all the Tunisian desert oases, with more than 400,000 palm trees, produced so many of the prized deglat ennour dates and a variety of other fruits and vegetables. Here, we joined other tourists as we headed towards a large herd of camels waiting for riders to go for a trek 30 minutes or longer.Tataouine is an important market town for the south-east region. A cradle of several successive civilisations, today the past is inscribed on every rock of the majestic Ksours (fortified granaries formed by oblong cells, the "ghorfas") which dominate the whole	More photos
A town where locals, many attired in traditional dress, meet to buy sell and exchange goods. The last Berber speaking villages of Tunisia are in this region, if you visit the town on market day where you can find locally produced ceramics, all forms of handicraft and colourful spices.According to Gafsa is the main city of its region, and the centre of the profitable phosphate industry. Unlike the towns closer to the mines, Metlaoui and Moulares, it has not Been turned into a dust hell it is a modern town ,busy friendly,without many tourists But certainly warrants a stop in itself.The Roman pools is the only sights of its kind In all of Tunisia,the kasbah and traditional quarters are all interesting and visuallyAppealing. Tamerza with a refreshing waterfall is likened to a balcony overlooking the Sahara. Here you will find an abandoned village devastated by catastrophic flooding. Further on and almost on the Algerian border is Mides, a small and deserted village set up high that overlooks a sea of green palm and orange groves. Oases and mouintains seem an unlikely combination, but in Tunisia three villages have grown up it the shade of date palms perched on arid, ochre-coloured mountainside. The resilience of the palm trees and the resources fulness of the Saharan people in making the most of a simple spring is born out in three villages in particular. Chebika, the refreshing water rushes over an imposing waterfull to form a wadi surrounded by palm trees at the bottom of a gorge, Tamerza looks barricaded by its mountain range, as if suspended on the side of a vast canyon with commanding views over the vast plains as far as the Chott and the sand hills. The old village now abandoned, stretches the length of the palm grove and is surrounded by stunning waterfalls. Finally, there is Mides - the western-most and arguably the most impressive of these oases, which overlooks a breathtakingly high canyon. The Berber villages of Chenini, Douiret and Ghomrassen. Ksar Haddada home to a tourist site of ghorfa dwellings which featured in the Star Wars movie.