Tunisia trip length?

[GilliC]

How many days would you suggest (on the ground) for a trip to Tunisia?

I'm tossing around the idea for this coming fall, during low season, as a chance to escape the dark. Would 7 full days be enough? Alternatively, we could go over the Christmas/New Year's holidays and have 10 or 14 days.

ETA - Would you recommend working with a travel agency or arranging hotels and transportation ourselves?

[GilliC]

May 1, 2014 20:19:23 GMT -5 jamaicam said:

7 days would be enough. If you are going in winter, I'm not sure if it will be hot enough for the beach (but I need it roasting for the beach so my opinion may be complexity off!) but you could do he main highlights in a week,

I went a good few years ago and did a cheap package deal as that was the easiest way to do it.

Where would you recommend visiting? I definitely want to visit Matmata and am thinking of Douz.

[taffy]

I lived in Tunisia for 2 years 1979-1981. One year it snowed at Christmas so it definitely would be too cold for the beach. There are a ton of sights to see Carthage for one. The souks are amazing.

[GilliC]

Not really interested in the beach anyway, so that wasn't even on our radar. The info I've seen puts the temperatures around 10C in December, which is comfortable.