Desert Journey are a husband and wife team who organize trips to the Tunisian Sahara because that's what we know best and love most.

We are different from other people because we do all the work ourselves - we don't take your money to get a local rep to drive you places we've never been to. From your first enquiry, to your arrival in Tunisia, right through to your departure - we are the people you will be dealing with. In the desert, we travel only on foot and by camel because we believe it is the best way to appreciate the landscape while having a minimal negative impact on its inhabitants. We also organize holidays by the sea that include shorter journeys to the desert for travellers who like to try things out in small chunks before committing to a whole week of sand and stars.

Tunisia Although the smallest country in North Africa, Tunisia is remarkably varied in its landscape - from the Mediterranean coastline, to the fertile mountain regions, to the Sahara desert. The country is a favourite destination for European tourists and, increasingly, British holidaymakers who know it best for its resorts of Hammamet, Sousse and Monastir. But there is much more to see than sea and sand. In the course of history, Berbers, Phoenicians, Romans, Turks, Arabs and the French have left their mark on Tunisian soil and given rise to a unique culture that, though strongly Islamic, is probably closest to the Mediterranean way of thinking. The official language is of course Arabic but most people also speak French.

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The Sahara
One of the beauties of Tunisia, the Sahara desert begins in the region of Douz (known as "the door to the Sahara") and extends to the south where it merges with the Great Eastern Erg. The desert is a place outside of time, far from a life of schedules, round the clock television and worldwide telephone networks - you don't have to go anywhere or do anything, so you might as well just be as you are and where you are. It is a place for dreaming, for testing yourself and for meeting people from your heart. Most of all, it is a breathtaking landscape of vast horizons, fine sand patterned in intricate shapes by the meanderings of little beasts, of lush oasis, shifting dunes and the most incredible night skies.