Presidential Train "Habib Bourguiba"

Scenery Highlights

• The ascent into the Kroumirie mountains — Tunisia's wettest and most forested region, with cork-oak (Quercus suber) woodlands, wild boar, and the only area of the country where the Sahara does not dominate
• The Medjerda river valley approach to Jendouba — the broad, irrigated valley that is the agricultural heartland of northern Tunisia
• The Tabarka cliff coast — the train hugs the rocky Mediterranean shore for around 25 km, with views of the old Genoese fort on the offshore islet
• The climb to Le Kef across the Haute Steppe — open grain-farming plateau with white- and ochre-roofed farmhouses and distant snow on the Algerian Tell Atlas in winter
• The Tell Atlas crossing between Le Kef and Siliana — through the wheat-growing bou-zid belt and the dramatic Dorsale limestone ridges
• The descent to Boukornine National Park — pine and Aleppo-oak forest with views across the Gulf of Tunis back toward the Bizerte lagoon
• The final coastal approach into Tunis Marine at sunset on Day 3 — the Mediterranean catches orange light as the train pulls into the historic terminus
• Onboard natural-history commentary at every major geographic transition — the Kroumirie cork oak, the Medjerda, the Dorsale, the haute steppe, the Boukornine
• The bar car's open-platform on the heritage carriage — possible at very slow speed on the rural sections around Le Kef and Siliana