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Sahara and mountain oasis Trail – 8 days/7 nights
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.
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
Price: on request.
Included:welcome, assistance, return transfer from Tozeur airport to hotel, full board accommodation in 4 or 5* hotels, 2 nights in VIP camping, horse and tack (French saddles), English speaking professional guide, 6 riding days.
Not Included: Drinks.
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. |

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