Data for Tunis, Sidi Bou Said, the Sahara and Djerba, installed before you fly. Tunisia is on the Africa plan with Morocco and Algeria, so a Maghreb trip stays on one eSIM. Luke Skywalker grew up in a hotel in Matmata, on a planet named after a Tunisian town.
The Tunisia plan covers Tunisia only.
The same 10 GB in a package that keeps working past Tunisia.
32 other countries share the package with Tunisia. A few of them:
What's included, when it starts, and how to get connected.
Tunisia’s classic loop runs south from the capital to a Roman arena, into the desert where Star Wars built its sets, and east to the island of Djerba. Trains cover the first leg; louages, the white shared minibuses that leave when full, or a hire car do the rest. The line below is an illustration, not a map.
1The TGM light railway runs from Tunis along the bay to Carthage, Sidi Bou Said and La Marsa. Walk the medina’s souks, then the Antonine Baths, the largest Roman baths in Africa; the presidential palace is next door, so keep the camera on the ruins. Sidi Bou Said’s look has been protected by decree since 1915.
2South along the railway, a Roman amphitheatre for about 35,000 spectators towers over a small town. Built around 238 AD and on UNESCO’s list since 1979, it is one of the best preserved anywhere. In 1996 Nike filmed its ‘Good vs Evil’ advert here, with Cantona, Ronaldo and Maldini playing football against demons in the arena.
3Cross the Chott el Djerid, the Sahara’s largest salt pan, to the oasis town of Tozeur. North of Nefta, the Mos Espa set from The Phantom Menace still stands in the dunes, which have already buried its smaller twin; Luke’s homestead stood out on the Chott itself. Go early, with a local 4x4 driver, and take water.
4Matmata’s Hotel Sidi Driss, rooms dug around a pit in the rock, was Luke Skywalker’s home in 1976; Lucas added a day to the shoot to film there. Then Djerba, on UNESCO’s list since 2023: the Mos Eisley cantina exterior is in Ajim, and Djerbahood’s murals fill the lanes of Erriadh. Fly home from Djerba.
How the plan fits this route
One package from the arrivals hall in Tunis to the flight home from Djerba: Tunisia is on the Africa plan, and so are Morocco and Algeria. Coverage follows the local network — strong in the cities and along the coast, patchy on the Chott and in the dunes around the sets, as on any SIM — and in a summer heatwave, power cuts can briefly take it down.
Guide: offline maps, done properly
Tunisia has strict currency controls: you cannot take dinars out of the country, and foreign cash may need declaring when you land. Change money on arrival, keep the official exchange receipts and spend the rest before the airport. Hotels also charge a tax of 8 dinars a night per person in three-star places and 12 in four- and five-star ones, for up to ten nights (2026).
They destroyed it in 146 BC; that part is true. The salt came much later: the story shows up in texts of the 19th century, entered the textbooks with the Cambridge Ancient History in 1930, and has no ancient source at all. A century after the fall, Julius Caesar ordered Carthage rebuilt; under Augustus it rose again and became the second city of the Roman West.
In 2020 Algeria, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia put couscous on UNESCO’s intangible heritage list together — a rare joint entry for a dish the region argues about daily. In 2022 Tunisia listed harissa by itself: the chilli paste from the peppers of Cap Bon, with Nabeul as its capital and a festival there, usually in October. Expect it on the table at every meal.
Drones need authorisation to enter Tunisia and are otherwise held at the airport until you leave. The UK Foreign Office also warns that devices that record or transmit — Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, walkie-talkies, toy ones included — can be confiscated for the length of the visit. Phones are fine. Keep cameras away from government buildings and military sites too.
Brik is the starter everyone orders: a whole egg with tuna, parsley and a little harissa, folded into paper-thin malsouka pastry and fried until the outside shatters and the egg inside stays soft. Eat it with your fingers, quickly, over the plate. The yolk decides whether your shirt comes home clean.
Answers about data, coverage and setup for Tunisia.
Morocco, yes: Tunisia, Morocco and Algeria are all on the Africa plan, so a Maghreb trip shares one allowance. Egypt is on the Middle East plan instead, so a trip that adds Cairo needs a Middle East package too; both can sit on the same eSIM, and each starts in the first country on its own list. Libya is on neither. The Africa plan
When you dock at La Goulette. Italy and France are on the Europe plan, not the Africa plan, and out at sea phones can latch onto a ship’s satellite network, where the EU’s roaming rules no longer apply — the EU’s own advice is flight mode on board. Keep the onesim line off until Tunis, where the Africa package starts on its first connection. With an EU SIM, the port you sail from roams like home.
In the oasis towns — Tozeur, Nefta, Douz — and in Matmata, coverage follows the local network. Out on the Chott el Djerid and in the dunes around the Mos Espa set, the signal comes and goes, as on any SIM, so download maps before you leave town and agree the pickup point with your driver. In a summer heatwave, short power cuts can also take networks and card machines down for a while.
