Matmata Travel Guide

 euzkadi Says:  Once used as a set of the Disco scene in the first Star Wars movie, now is a hotel with 20 rooms, each room is a cave dug from the rock, the hotel also has a bar and a restaurant and lots of visitors. 

 miman Says:  Matmata's fame comes from the unusual houses – instead of building the houses, they were dug vertically into the ground. Matmata is so great that it is about to become destroyed. The town is a must-see for tourists to Tunisia, and from early morning till late afternoon bus... 

 barryg23 Says:  The land around Matmata is very scenic. We travelled all the way from Houmt Souk in Djerba and passed some great sights along the way. Many people find Matmata too touristy given the number of visitors following in Luke Skywalkers footsteps. There are equally interesting... 

 barryg23 Says:  Our guide seemed very modern, informative, confident and not quite how I imagined a Berber to be. She spoke fairly fast, accented French so I couldn't understand every word though she also had some English, more words than sentences though. It was a bit akward at the end and... 

 barryg23 Says:  The highlight of Matmata was our visit to the Berber Musem nearby where we were given a guided tour of a typical troglydyte house by a local woman whose family have lived there for years. These houses are designed to be cold in summer and warm in winter using the Earth as a... 

 barryg23 Says:  Hotel Sidi Driss is one of Matmata's most visited troglydyte houses. The house was used in the original Star Wars film and in the Phantom Menace. I recognised it as Luke's home in the first movie though I'm not familiar enough with the new movies to recognise where it was... 

 barryg23 Says:  There are 5 rooms below ground connected by small tunnels. The main room has a numebr of dorm style rooms, plus a couple of smaller rooms. There is also a bar and restaurant where the Phantom Menace set lies, plus a couple of more rooms used as bedrooms and storage. There... 

 barryg23 Says:  Chez Abdoul was a little disappointing. There was no menu outside, though it seemed fairly busy, and as it had been mentioned (though not exactly recommended) in our Rough Guide, we decided to chance it. It was an interesting variation having to choose our courses from a... 

 JLBG Says:  The soil is more rocky and stony than in Matmata and the inhabitants have no been able to carve their houses in the soil but they have used the rocks and the earth to built them. The village, though large is visible only when getting close. Otherwise, it melts completely... 

 JLBG Says:  Most guides books, if not all tell that you should only drink bottled water. This is certainly a wise advice and you have better follow this precautionary principle. However, I did not and when we camped across Tunisia, we always picked tap water where it was available, as... 

 TheLongTone Says:  As tourist traps go this is laughable. It's virtually labelled TOURIST TRAP and exists almost solely for tourist who want to be trapped. Yes, it's the STAR WARS (tm) place. Outside, a coach park, souvenir stalls, a handful of tour guides and some camels, who must... 

 JLBG Says:  These drum looking "things" are actually bee-hives. They are made with the trunk of palm tree that has been hollowed out by one end. The open end is sunk in the soil, in the rear. The front end has just a small hole to allow the passage of bees.