Tunisia trip - Star Wars locations included

Just returned from an 8 days trip to Tunisia.



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You can see some of the Star Wars pics here:

https://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v226/sergiurusu/Tunisia/


We lived in Sousse at the Karawan hotel in a room with a view at the Mediterranean sea:

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The Roman Amphitheatre at El Jem:

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The desert is all around us:

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Troglodyte underground houses at Matmata:

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Palm tree forest:

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Hotel in the desert (Douz oasis):

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Sunrise at the Chott el Jerid salt lake:

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Chebika Oasis near Atlas mountains:

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Desert and more desert (we came in Toyota Jeeps with really professional drivers):

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The Star Wars movie set in the Tunisian desert (about 30 km from Tamerza oasis):

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Keirouan city:

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The capital city, Tunis:

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The bazaar:

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Carthage ruins:

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Sidi Bou Said - the blue and white village:

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A crystal rock found at the Star Wars movie set in the desert dunes:

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Tunisia desert salt flower - got them at about 20 km from the Star Wars movie set in the desert:

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Amethyst bought at Chebika oasis (30 km from the Star Wars movie set):

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Fridge magnets made of ceramics - each one is hand made and unique (Tataouine):

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Very cool! And awesome pics. I am insanely jealous. Visiting film locations is one of my hobbies and I intend to do the Tunisia Trip myself someday soon.

Thanks for sharing!

Great pics! You are giving me the wanderlust bad! I shouldn't have looked at these right as I got to work.

Awesome pics! Looks like you had a good time.

Nice!~ Thanks for sharing. Looks like you had fun. Someday I hope to make that trip as well.

wow! I'm envious.

Great pictures. I almost expected to see jawas walking around with crappy droids to sell.

I saw this over at medi-world.You lucky SOB!

Wait is that from the actual EPIV set?? It's been there 30+ years???

scubasteve said:

Wait is that from the actual EPIV set?? It's been there 30+ years???

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It's the Mos Espa set built for the EPISODE I production (and used again briefly during filming of AOTC). Lucasfilm turned it over to the Tunisian government to maintain as a tourist attraction.

I thought it was really unsafe to travle to Tunisia?

Cool thanks for the pics.

I did the same with LOTR(link below).Im sure u had an awesome time.

Thanks guys!

mrfreeze said:

I thought it was really unsafe to travle to Tunisia?

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Not at all, people are very friendly and hospitable, even if it is a Muslim country there were lots and lots of foreign tourists: we were 12 Romanians, there were about 4 Hungarians in our hotel. On the streets we met: Czeh, Polish, Germans, Austrians, English, French, Italians, Japanese and even a couple from New Zealand. These are people we encountered more than once but there were other hundreds of tourists from all over the world.

IrishJedi said:

It's the Mos Espa set built for the EPISODE I production (and used again briefly during filming of AOTC). Lucasfilm turned it over to the Tunisian government to maintain as a tourist attraction.

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Too bad some idiots vandalized the movie set by taking "souvenirs" or writing their idiotic names on the walls and it wasn't the local people because they are not really aware of the SW phenomenon... But it was a really great trip!


More pictures of the Tunisian Star Wars set
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Clearly there's not too much to see. I mean let's face it, if not for Star Wars filming there, that place would be nothing but a barren desert.

That's awesome. Wasn't the Lars homestead from Episode IV some hotel in Tunisia? That'd be cool to go there.

Collector Freak said:

Clearly there's not too much to see. I mean let's face it, if not for Star Wars filming there, that place would be nothing but a barren desert.

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Not really, on other dunes there is the English Patient movie set. As for the country itself, Tunisia is just beautiful! You should visit it one day and you'll change your opinion in a second.

darthviper107 said:

That's awesome. Wasn't the Lars homestead from Episode IV some hotel in Tunisia? That'd be cool to go there.

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Yes it is - Hotel Sidi Driss

Vandalized vaporator...

Remember the pics with the sunrise at Chott El Jerid salt lake? Or the Tozeur and Nefta oases? I visited all those

https://www.movie-locations.com/movies/s/starwars.html

"The exterior of the homestead, where Luke contemplates the two suns, is part of the vast Chott el Jerid, the dry, white salt flat stretching across central Tunisia to the oases of Tozeur and Nefta. The site of Luke’s home, now a couple of filled-in circular pits, can be found a few miles south from Highway 3 on a turnoff just west of Nefta."

Also the English Patient's filming location was close toe the Star Wars one:

https://www.movie-locations.com/intromovies/engpatient.html

"The desert camp of Count Laszlo de Almásy (Ralph Fiennes) is in the Tunisian Sahara a few miles from the oasis of Nefta. The site is beneath the bizarre Onk Jemal, the Camel's Neck rock formation, not too far from the sets for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. A guided desert safari, with a four-wheel drive vehicle is the most practical way to see the location."

My own picture of Onk Jemal the Camel's Neck rock - a few km from Mos Espa movie set

wow looks like an awesome place to visit!