Kebili and Douz
Doors of the desert
In direction of the oasis of EL OUADIAN, You cross the salted lake of CHATT EL JRID, all along your voyage, a gilded sand carpet, will surprise you, where the salt crystals under scoff at sun transform themselves into prisms, reflecting all the colours of the arc in sky. You will not hear any sound in this place isolated from the world, where the life seems to stop. Infinity of splendid dunes will surround you. The chain of oasis announces the beginning of the town of KEBILI; these oases represent truths archipelagos in the immense sand ocean.
KEBILI announces Saharan of the oases in the south of Tunisia: DOUZ.
DOUZ, it is a Museum of traditions, a small typical city of the desert, surrounded by brilliant sand dunes. The ancestral habits and the practices are jealously safeguarded by its inhabitants. On the place of the market of Wednesday, You could find skins of camels, Berbers jewels and especially of the very popular dogs with DOUZ "Sloughi", a race of gun dogs.
Each year in December, people will visit "the festival of the Sahara", where You could benefit from the fantastic traditional marriages, of the various races of camels, greyhound of hunting.
DOUZ – is the gate of the desert by where the excursions on the white camels of MEKHFRI start, as well as the departures with the heart of Desert in the medium of infinity of dunes, where you would meet wandering Gazelles a little everywhere.