Question 1

Why we deliberately cap our groups at 8 travellers

Accepted Answer

Because a family table doesn't welcome a coach. At eight, you can sit in an artisan's courtyard, share a dish without jostling, exchange a real look with the people hosting you. Beyond that, the experience dilutes: you watch instead of living it, you follow instead of meeting. This cap isn't a logistical constraint, it's a condition for every moment to stay human.

Question 2

Why we prefer family tables to restaurants

Accepted Answer

A restaurant serves you a dish; a family passes down a story. At a local home, the harissa tastes of an inherited recipe, the bread comes out of a wood-fired oven, and conversation matters as much as the meal. These tables appear in no guidebook, which is exactly why you feel invited, not served.

Question 3

What 'slow travel' really means to us

Accepted Answer

It's not about seeing less, it's about living more. We'd rather spend three days in one region than three regions in one day, time enough to let an encounter linger, a tea be poured again, an unplanned moment become the best memory. Slowing down means giving the journey room to truly enter you.

Question 4

Why our itineraries are never quite the same twice

Accepted Answer

Because they're born from you. Every circuit is composed by hand, around your pace, your curiosities, the encounters of the moment. A harvest underway, a village wedding, an artisan opening their workshop: Tunisia never repeats itself, and neither do our journeys.

Question 5

Travelling off-season: our best-kept secret

Accepted Answer

Away from the crowds and crushing heat, Tunisia reveals itself differently. In spring, the hills fill with orange blossom; in autumn, the desert light turns golden and soft. Off-season, artisans have time to welcome you, tables linger longer, and the country feels a little more yours.

Question 6

Real Tunisian cuisine, far from the clichés

Accepted Answer

Tunisia isn't just couscous or the hotel menu. It's a cuisine of terroirs and seasons: sometimes spicy, sometimes sweet-and-savoury, always generous. Grilled Kerkennah fish, fragrant tagines, hand-ground spices: every dish tells a region and a memory.

Question 7

A grandmother's harissa: the recipe passed down

Accepted Answer

No factory harissa matches the kind sun-dried on a rooftop terrace. Chili, garlic, caraway, coriander: the proportions aren't written down, they're passed from mother to daughter, by hand and by eye. Tasting that harissa means tasting an entire family's know-how.

Question 8

The ritual of desert tea

Accepted Answer

Under the tent, tea isn't just drunk: it's prepared, poured from high into a fine foam, served three times. Bitter as life, sweet as love, smooth as death, says the proverb. Around the embers, this ritual becomes a suspended moment, the one where the desert truly welcomes you.

Question 9

Golden brik, star of the Tunisian table

Accepted Answer

A crisp sheet of pastry, a runny egg, a touch of capers and parsley: brik is the art of mastered simplicity. Folding it without piercing it, frying it to the exact second: it's a gesture every family claims as its own. Best eaten piping hot, with your fingers, before it cools.

Question 10

Why every region has its own cuisine

Accepted Answer

From the green North to the Saharan South, geography wrote the recipes. The coast lives off fish, the oases off dates, the Berber mountains off slow-simmered dishes. Travelling through Tunisia means tasting this diversity mile after mile, and understanding that here, every dish has an address.

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