I visited Tunisia at the end of March 2008. I lived in a hotel at Sousse at the Mediterranean seaside (awesome sunrise). We visited the Ep.1 movie set in the middle of the Tunisian desert and I got some really cool stuff also like desert crystals, Matmata (one of the SW locations) cards and some cool fridge magnets with Tataouine (Tatooine).
I found a nice crystal rock just on a sand dune 50 meters from the SW movie set, and I also got some cool desert rocks (flower like rocks made of salted sand - really unique), which local people called Berbers pick up on a salt lake about 20 km from the SW set.
We lived in Sousse at the Karawan hotel in a room with a view at the Mediterranean sea:
The Roman Amphitheatre at El Jem:
The desert is all around us:
Troglodyte underground houses at Matmata:
Palm tree forest:
Hotel Mehari in the desert (Douz oasis):
Sunrise at the Chott el Jerid salt lake:
The same place Luke stared at the sky in ANH:
Chebika Oasis near Atlas mountains:
Desert and more desert (we came in Toyota Jeeps with really professional drivers):
The Star Wars movie set in the Tunisian desert (about 30 km from Tamerza oasis). More pics
HERE:
http://www.tunisiaonline.com/starwars/Keirouan city:
The capital city, Tunis:
The bazaar:
Carthage ruins:
Sidi Bou Said - the blue and white village:
Remember the pics with the sunrise at Chott El Jerid salt lake? Or the Tozeur and Nefta oases? I visited all those
http://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:
http://www.filmscouts.com/SCRIPTs/matinee.cfm?Film=eng-pat&File=locatns"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
Tunisia Star Wars locations:
