5-Day Tunisia Eclipse Tour with Carthage, Kairouan and Sousse

Meet on arrival at Tunis-Carthage airport and head straight into the capital. Begin with the medina of Tunis: covered souks, carved doorways, and the Zitouna Mosque at its centre. Then continue to Carthage, with the museum on Byrsa Hill and the Antonine Baths, the largest Roman baths in Africa, on the edge of the sea. The afternoon ends in Sidi Bou Said, with its white walls and blue shutters on a cliff above the Gulf of Tunis. Night in Tunis.

Travel south to Kairouan, the first Arab city of the Maghreb, and visit the courtyard of its Great Mosque, home to one of the oldest minarets still standing. Continue to El Jem, where the third-century amphitheatre once held some 35,000 people, with time on the arena floor and in the passages beneath it. Then head to the coast and Sousse, your base for three nights.

Explore the walled medina of Sousse and its ninth-century ribat, the fortified monastery whose watchtower looks over the old town, along with the Roman mosaics in the museum in the kasbah. Continue along the shore to Monastir for its seafront ribat and the mausoleum of Habib Bourguiba. Enjoy an easy afternoon, followed by an evening briefing on the eclipse.

Monday, August 2. Start early for a site scouted near the centre line, chosen for open horizons and easy road access. Spend hours on location before first contact to set up, then experience the whole event from first contact to last, with more than five minutes of totality in the late morning. Return to Sousse with the afternoon and evening free.

Breakfast and transfer to Monastir, Enfidha-Hammamet, or Tunis-Carthage airport for your flight home. Or stay one more night and head south on the Sahara extension below.