Why visit the Tunisian Sahara?

Travellers planning to travel to the genuine Sahara Desert are generally looking for an adventurous trip and a unique experience. However, the decisions of where to go, for how long, and with whom, are difficult to make, and that is why I have decided to try to help you, so that you have more up-to-date, practical and relevant information when organising your trip to the Sahara Desert.
I am going to give you 2 reasons why, in my opinion, it is worth choosing to travel to the Sahara Desert in Tunisia instead of Morocco.

1. Less tourists, less 4×4 and more authenticity if you travel to the Sahara Desert in Tunisia.

For the European audience, especially nowadays, the Sahara Desert in Morocco is better known and more developed for tourism than the Sahara Desert in Tunisia. However, this can also be a reason to choose the Sahara Desert in Tunisia, if you are looking to get away from the masses and want to visit quiet places where you want to meet nature and local people, and not compatriots from your own country or even city.

I guess you already know that when you arrive in Marrakech from your home city, you will still need to take almost 10 hours by 4X4 just to get to Merzouga, considered as the real gateway to the Sahara desert in Morocco. In the case of the Tunisian Sahara, you save yourself many hours of 4X4 in transit with the boredom and fatigue that this can entail.

2. In Tunisia you will find a greater variety of Sahara desert landscapes.

As I mention on this page of this website, only in the Sahara desert of Tunisia will you be lucky enough to experience the two main types of desert, one the erg, to the east, which is a desert that everyone imagines with large dunes of fine sand that can reach up to 250 metres high – the Great Erg Oriental – and the reg, then to the west, composed this time of mountainous rocks polished by the sand-laden wind, the “djebel Dahar”.

In short, we will show you the Sahara desert of Tunisia in magnificent “Dar” (in Morocco they say “Riad”) or typical troglodyte houses where you will spend the night, as well as the different shapes of the Sahara desert, sleeping under a traditional tent (jaima) under the stars of an incredibly clear sky to the rhythm of the music of our experienced guides without forgetting the wonderful and refreshing oasis, and finally some villages of Berber origin and all this in a very reduced space of time of only 8 days and 7 nights.