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Sahara and mountain oasis Trail – 8 days/7 nights : ( From October to April )

Watch the sunrise and sunset over the Sahara sand dunes and Star Wars film sets. Enjoy a traditional meal at a Bedouin camp. All that combined with an original riding tour with long canters across the wide open sand dunes, rocky canyons and dry salt lakes on Barb horses.

Included : Accommodations - 5 nights in hotel, 2 nights in camping, full board, 6 riding days.
Meals : While staying at the hotel, breakfast and dinner are included. During the rides all meals are provided.
Meeting : Tozeur
Airport : Tozeur or Djerba
Level : Intermediate to experienced
Tack : French (similar to English saddles)
Horses : Barb or Arab-Barb (mostly stallions, but easy to handle)
Pace : Moderate, trots and fast canters
Note : Long hours in the saddle.
Min/Max Riders : 2-10
Tarifs : 750 £ (full board accomodation included).


Itinerary :
Day 1
- Welcome at Tozeur or Djerba international airport by your guide,
- Transfer to our hotel in Tozeur.
- After a welcome cocktail drink we visit the Oasis of Tozeur.
- Dinner and overnight at the hotel
Day 2

- After breakfast we have one hour minibus transfer to the mountain oasis of Chebika where we meet our horses and start our trail.
- Our ride follows the bottom of a local dry river in a canyon landscape until we reach the Tamerza cascades. Then we cross the palm trees forest to reach Tamerza Palace hotel 5*.
Diner and overnight at this splendid hotel with a panoramic view on the ruins of the old village of Tamerza

Day 3
- We leave Tamerza to the Djebel Redayef canyons mountain.
- It is our big adventure day, as we will climb on horses to the top of the highest mountain (900 m).
- The view from the top is stunning. In the afternoon, we ride down the mountains by the south side until our comfortable camping.
- Diner and overnight at the camping  
Day 4
- After breakfast we leave the mountains area to the Sahara desert through the great oriental Erg. It's a day full of long canters and lot of meeting with wild camels. we will have lunch at Chekmou oasis and carry on to Neflayet oasis.
- Diner and overnight at our comfortable camping
Day 5
- We have breakfast at the camping then we carry on to Ibn Chabbat oasis through a very exotic Sahara desert landscape.
- Diner and overnight at the hotel in Tozeur
Day 6
- Breakfast at the hotel.
- We leave the sand dunes to ride over the salt lake landscapes of Chot El Gharsa until the Start wars film set at Lariguet.
- After lunch we carry on to Nefta oasis.
- Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Nefta
Day 7
- Today we ride on the big Chot El Jerid salt lake (the second biggest salt lake in the world). After lunch we carry on to the oasis of Tozeur.
- Dinner and overnight at the hotel in Tozeur
Day 8
- Transfert to the airport.

 
Dates 2008
from 10 to 17 October
from 24 to 31 October
from 07 to 14 November
from 21 to 28 November
from 05 to 12 December
from 26 december to 02 January 2009
 
   
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