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Reviews of Chott El Jerid

• Morten Kristensen

  4

  Reviewed: 2024-04-30

  Guess where they filmed Star Wars! This is the planet Tatooine, and it's such a unique place! It's completely flat with the hills in the far distance, and Chott El Djerid feels like you've just landed on another planet. It's a dried-out salt lake, about 90km across, and you can see white or brownish salt as far as you can see. Isn't it amazing? We went on a well-air-conditioned tourist bus, but when we stepped outside, on the very middle of the "lake", the temperature rose above 50 degrees Celsius in July! So, it's a good idea to bring and take water aplenty. It's funny, though, because there are so many tourist buses here, there's a really tiny kiosk (it's a tent) where you can buy ice-cold Coca-Cola! Buy one, and you'll feel like you're in an infamous dessert commercial for that marque! You will definitely feel the dessert, the salt lake, the burning sun and the flowing water beneath the broken salt flakes. I'll never forget this experience!

• Lisa Skalecki

  5

  Reviewed: 2024-04-13

  Our tour group crossed this dry salt lake on the way to Tozeur, it was a really cool place to stop for a scenic stretch-your-legs. The tourist souvenirs for sale on the side of the road were nice and very reasonably priced.

• Marta Skorubska

  5

  Reviewed: 2022-12-15

  Amazing experience, went there for a sunrise, remember those goosebumps till now, remember to wear something warm I know it's a worm country and a desert but at night and in the morning it's quite cold

• Szasz Monika

  5

  Reviewed: 2022-08-01

  The best place to see the sunrise.

• Manel Hamza

  5

  Reviewed: 2018-09-09

  An outstanding view !!! It's literally when the sky meets the land !! The desert of the salty snow