Tozeur Travel Guide

Tozeur is a general desert/oasis city, the houses is build in a unique building/architecture way, the bricks are placed in the walls to create unique patterns - which also can be seen in the fabrics/ blankets. In Tozeur one can see left overs from Cleopatra's family and from the roman time. In the center/ Medina there is a rich posibility to shop local goods & foods. Tozeur also have a archaeological & ethnological museum at Zawia de Sidi ben Issa...
From Tozeur it is possible to take a small bus (transportation is very cheap here!) to Tamerza, a small oasis city a few kilometers from the algerian boarder... Tamerza have a nice oasis nature & not many tourists comes here, but it still have a few hotels - where one is located in the oasis, small cabins) so it's very easy to interact with the locals...

Tozeur has very extended lovely palm plantations (dates ripe in October - get them fresh there!!). You can cheaply have a sightseeing on a horse chariot throughout the oasis on the border of the silent salt lake. There is another village nearby which is amidst the salt lake.  The salt lake of Tozeur is called Chott el Djerid...    good people to be found in those regions.   Also Gafsa, next place towards North, has very nice edges and gardens.

This city is very different from European cities, but it's full of life right like them! The oasi is really beautiful, and also the market is worth seeing... just one tip: if you're a woman, pay attention to men and seller. It should help you to avoid coming back home with a mountain of things of no real use that in less than 6 months ends up in your rubbish bag!