New Year Holiday and the Douz Festival

The famous Douz Festival;
Included in the New Tour is a visit to this locally famous traditional festival,
plunging you into Nomad culture and tradition...
An unforgettable way of spending the New Year!

• Departure from Djerba where you will visit the centre of the Houmt Souk, capital of the Island: wisteria inundated little squares, colourful covered markets, the fish market with its traditional bargaining place, the ancient foundouks or caravanserails, places where the desert caravans would stop over, to rest and sell the wares they had brought back from the South and the East... superb square courtyards with adjoining buildings and galleries where the merchants stocked their wares.... Often these are renovated into hotels or craft, antique and souvenir shops...here you can sip mint tea and taste delicious oriental patisserie, buy gifts in the bazaars, (bargaining is a must!) or wander around and admire the architecture of these typical old Arab houses.
  
• From there, on to Douz via Matmata where you can admire the village's troglodyte dwellings.
  
• Departure for the festival, a tribune built in front of a desert backdrop (a spectacle of folklore dancing, horse racing, camel racing, etc. Put on for you by the nomads of the many regions of Africa).
• Taste the local speciality: Lamb "à la gargoulette"
• Visit to an abandoned village and a walk to the Boujuihif marabou.
• Once all these places, part of the 7-day desert trek (dunes, valleys, tamarisk trees, desert roses) have been visited, return to Djerba via Douz and Nouaïel.

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