Matmata Hotel

... , where a number of scenes from the original and subsequent movies were shot, and in particular the Sidi Driss Hotel in Matmata - the location used for Luke Skywalker's moisture farm home on Tatooine that features heavily in the opening sequences of the ...

... hotbed and centre of rural wifeswapping. (It was in an Auckland magazine so it must be true)  No wife swapping in Matmata thats for sure, They seem to keep them. Some have up to three wives. Yeah gods, imagine paying for three divorces if it ...

... border (corrupt official wanted money and refused to process our passports) drove to Matmata and stayed overnight. Started the day at Matmata in the hotel Sidi Driss, set of star wars.  Then visited a berber family who live in the mountains in dug ...

... than happy to catch some of the scenery used in the movie as well as check out Luke's childhood home, now an underground hotel in the town of Matmata. In the same area, we went to Tamerzet and sat on the roof of a cafe for a terrible view. It ...

... (aaargh... volevo la foto con il cartello)... però oggi siamo andati a vedere nientemeno che la casa di Luke Skywalker!! Siamo a Matmata, paese famoso per le case troglodite che quel genio di George Lucas ha scoperto chissà come 30 anni fa, e ne è ...

... homes, with many more having been converted into hotels and restaurants. Before taking a look at some of these we stopped at Hotel Matmata for lunch, which turned out to be a bit of a disappointment to be honest. I think they'd taken the flavour out of ...

... island were we would stay for a couple of nights to rest up for the coming days. It was a chock coming there. Matmata had been a change to a more common place to visit, with tourists and souvenir stalls. This was something completely different, around ...

... colleseum in the world Called El Djem. Its where they filmed recent Gladiator movie. Then we headed off to the region of Matmata. We visited a troglodyte house (Man made caves in the 'Stony Desert') People dwell here all year round. This region is where ...

... 100km into the Sahara and, it being summer, we expected that vast amounts of water would be essential. Our guide met us at our hotel at 9am and we took off. Our first sight was the Chott el-Jerid, an immense salt lake that stretched as far as the eye ...

... l'hôtel, assez tôt le matin, direction le "bac" (ferry), permettant de quitter l'île de Djerba. Et direction Matmata, le village de montagne aux allures lunaires, où les habitations sont creusées dans la roche tendre argileuse procurant ainsi un ...