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MICE Around Djerba MICE Around Djerba South East of Tunisia Hotels •5* RADISSONS SAS RESORT & THALASSO •5* YADIS THALASSO & GOLF •5* HASDRUBAL THALASSA & SPA DJERBA •4* VINCCI HELIOS BEACH 5* RADISSONS SAS RESORT & THALASSO Ideally located in the tourist area, the Radisson SAS Resort & Thalasso is situated directly on the beach surrounded by outstanding greenery and waves of palm trees. Djerba-Zarzis International Airport is only a 20-minute drive, while Houmt-Souk is 10 minutes away. The Casino and the Djerba Golf Club are both within a 10-minute drive of the hotel. The hotel offer 276 large rooms (42-sqm), 14 Junior Suites (64-sqm) and six Ambassador Suites (120-sqm). All rooms and suites are furnished with luxurious amenities and offer views over the sea or the landscaped gardens 5* YADIS THALASSO & GOLF Yadis Jerba Golf Thalasso & Spa is ideally located between golf and sea, along one of the best sandy beaches of the island and equipped with an excellent fitness center. It emerges from an Oasis of 14 hectares exotic plants and wide and varied gardens. The rooms are decorated , marrying the contemporary and the traditional style. They will surprise you by their comfort and their harmony: pieces of furniture of Italian style, Dressing, corner living room, loggia, air-conditioning, mini bar, connection Internet, direct telephone, satellite TV… The suites are single. They rejoin between prestige, luxury and originality. Room Surface Theatre Class U Banquet romm Ibn 266.64 400 260 75 350 Khaldoun Aghir 39.78 30 20 20 30 Djerba 25.05 18 12 16 20 Gallala 44.06 40 30 20 40 Tourguenes 57.56 70 40 30 60 s Midoun 23.05 20 12 15 20 Ajim 43.17 40 30 20 30 5* HASDRUBAL THALASSA & SPA DJERBA Djerba Island is a true paradise on earth. This is a place where one feels good to be alive and particularly, at the HASDRUBAL THALASSA hotel with its cozy comfort and oriental architecture, which immerse you right a way in an altogether different universe: arches, moucharabies, fountains, and colonnades stretching towards gardens and swimming pools bordering on a vast white sand beach. It’s the ideal stopover for those who want to relax in a world dedicated to well-being. 210 double rooms. The air-conditioned rooms are equipped with direct telephone, radio, satellite-TV, safe, mini-bar, bathroom with a separate toilet, hairdryer, balcony or terrace, on sea side, or on garden side. 3 suites. 4* VINCCI HELIOS BEACH Vincci Helios Beach 4* Hotel is the new establishment of the Vincci Hotel chain in Tunisia. Located on an impressive paradise beachfront on the island of Djerba, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Sahara Desert, it extends over a 9-hectare land area. With an exquisite decor that combines Arab style with the contemporary modern air.. The hotel is composed of a central building (with 107 double rooms and 8 suites) and 5 houches, “buildings typical of the island with interior patios” (which all add up to 160 rooms between family and double rooms). A space of 900 m² equipped with the latest technology will ensures the succes of any event. Incentives and Motivation PANSEA camp Designed respecting both tradition and the environment, this refined camp is located in an exceptional location where the silence and grandeur of the scenery are ideal for a dream evening that won’t fail to cast you under its spell… Team Building in the Berber Villages A day’s adventure in 4x4 consists of Driving off-road to Douiret or the Berber villages of Chenini, Ghomrassen and the “ksours”. Horse-drawn carriages, donkeys and camels will be your docile mounts as part of a mini Olympics, while the more adventurous can try donkey back polo or drive a quad around the surrounding hills and fields for a day packed with excitement. Open bar at sunset will leave you in a dreamy mood. Dinner under Berber tents is always spectacular! Themed evenings Evenings around the pool or in magical locations, fully privatized, with a historic theme (in a Carthaginian, Roman, Oriental, Bedouin setting, or just like back home, Black & White)! 1001 ideas waiting for you to choose from, and that’s just the beginning. Recreation of a typical Berber village, including herds of camels, teams of horses and some domestic animals Setting •A tent for traditional henna, a woman decorates the hands and feet of participants with henna. •A tent reserved for “harkous” or traditional tattooing. •A tent for demonstrating how the traditional bread, “tabouna”, is prepared. •A tent for the nargila water pipe (“chicha”) and mint tea. •Caravans of camels and horses near to the camp. •A tent for the fortune teller, revealing the secrets of your future. Entertainment includes the following: •A traditional folkloric dance troupe: troupes in a variety of costumes performing different dances. •Belly dancers and Oriental dancers. •Fashion parade of traditional costumes from the region of Djerba. •Fire eaters and dancers balancing jars on their heads. •Sword dance. Team building Wellness Djerba: Sample program Day 1: Arrival in Djerba Arrival in Djerba on regular or charter flight or via Tunis (connection) on a domestic flight Personalized pickup with name boards showing the company’s name. Luggage taken directly by lorry to the hotel and sent to the rooms (prior name tagging necessary). Transfer by bus: Participants greeted at the hotel by a folklore group. Distribution of personalized keys in the name of the company ensuring a smooth check-in. Welcome cocktail served alongside the pool. Participants proceed to their respective rooms. Buffet dinner around the pool. An Arab-Andalusian orchestra will accompany the dinner. Overnight at the hotel. Day 2: Congress-Meeting Program or Excursion Tataouine / Chenini / Ksar Ghilane Buffet breakfast. Meeting and Congress centre available. Hostesses and technical and logistical support available. or Excursion: Excursion Tataouine / Chenini / Ksar Ghilane *Departure in 4x4 (5 people per vehicle) along the Roman causeway to Medenine to visit its famous granaries called “Ghorfas”. Continue to Ksar Ouled Soltane where refreshment will be served in one of the “Ksours”, ancient fortified granaries. *Lunch at the tranquil oasis of Ogla or around the pool at the magnificent Sangho Tataouine hotel. *Continue to Chenini and its unique houses carved out of the sheer rock and forming a circle around the mountain. Visit, free time and continuation to Ksar Ghilane, a tiny, extremely exotic oasis famous for its superb dunes and hot springs. *Arrival at the 4* Pansea Camp. Time for relaxing. *After the excitement of the day you will be able to enjoy a superb sunset over a cocktail. At sunset, clients follow a lighted path taking them around the dune where they will discover a Berber camp, specially erected for the group, including a fortune teller, women tattooing participants’ hands and feet, women preparing the traditional “tabouna” bread and the traditional nargila water pipe. *Berber tents set up in a circle around a fire of giant palm leaves, dinner will consist of Tunisian specialities and in particular clay pot baked lamb (“Agneau à la Gargoulette"). *Dinner accompanied by traditional folklore. *Overnight at the Pansea. Day 3: Tamezret / Matmata / Djerba Buffet breakfast at the camp. Camelback ride or quad drive over the reddish-colored dunes of Ksar Ghilane in the direction of Fort Fantôme. Continuation to Matmata, the star of southern Tunisia. Built on the site of a mountain, this fabulous Berber village boasts a unique lunar landscape pitted with giant holes that the film director Steven Spielberg used in his famous films "Star Wars" and “Raiders of the Lost Ark”. Visit to the famous troglodyte homes, a kind of granary carved into the rock, announced by immense craters! Lunch in an ancient troglodyte home specially privatized for the occasion! Return to Djerba by ferry via Gabes. Dinner at the Djerba Explore museum with a Malouf trio playing Arab-Andalusian music. Option: Dinner at the ‘’Dar Dhiafa’’ restaurant. Day 4: Boat trip and tour of the island Buffet breakfast Departure to the port of Houmt Souk, the commercial centre of the island. Board a “pirate boat” for a spectacular crossing to Pink Flamingo Island. Totally uninhabited, you can take a lovely romantic stroll or a refreshing dip in the sea. Barbecue lunch with grilled fish! Return to port: tour of the island in 4x4. Departure to visit the village of Guellala, the centre of Djerbian traditional pottery. You will be invited to try and produce your own piece of pottery or company logo in ceramic… Continuation through the ancient olive groves to the Scorpion or Genoese fort for a cocktail. Option: a Quad rally can be organized on request. Free time in Houmt Souk, the economic capital of the island, and return to the hotel. Gala dinner with folklore show, either in the Casino or Le Haroun fish restaurant. Day 5: Departure Buffet breakfast. Transfer by bus to Djerba airport. Assistance with check-in formalities. Treasure Hunt Djerba is the island of Lotophages supposedly discovered by Ulysse. It is a very unique island in Tunisia that has its own very distinctive identity. A quarter of its inhabitants speak Berber dialects and it is home to a small Jewish community. The capital Houmt Souk has a lively market, a thirteenth century fort, a Baroque Catholic Church and unusual Islamic architecture in the Mosque of the Turks and the Mosque of the Strangers. In the middle of this flat island is the Ghriba Synagogue which has one of the oldest Torahs in the world, and is still visited by Jewish pilgrims from all over the world. Houmt Souk The island’s administrative capital is a small town that has preserved its olde-worlde charm.
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