Our EPIC Road Trip Around TUNISIA (OLD STAR WARS SETS)

Previously on Oscar and Dan I saw nothing of this We're now heading straight into the desert Tunisia is known for having the spiciest food in the Middle East, North Africa region I don't see many other tourists around Good morning, let's have breakfast Today is such an incroyable day Vraiment We are heading to a place that is very exciting for me Maybe not so much for Oscar I'm just tagging along When I was 7, 8 and 9 Star Wars was my entire life Which is so funny because I don't know if it's really for 8 year olds But I loved it I played with all the like little Star Wars figurines I of course watched every movie I was completely obsessed So now we're actually where they shot a lot of Star Wars in the south of Tunisia And we're gonna see some of the cool old sets So it's a bit of a drive into the desert I'm gonna do it today So wish us luck in our non-four-wheel drive We're Oscar and Dan Two Swedes who have been exploring the world together since we met in high school For the past three years, our goal has been to visit 100 countries And we are now so close to the finish line Country number 98 was the North African nation of Tunisia But before we go to the Star Wars sets We're stopping by this amazingly beautiful oasis It's in the middle of the desert We were literally driving through the super desolate landscape And all of a sudden we just see this like giant group of palm trees So we're in the historical old town of Chivica Which is so cool It's really built into the rocks here And it's all right next to the oasis I'm trying to read up on this place as we walk There's a Wikipedia article in French Trying to see if it's available Oh English Okay Which is literally one sentence It's a town, oh my god That's new knowledge Wait, what? It's a town? Right over there is Algeria We're so close Still gotta make it there one day Here's our hotel And here is where we are Algeria Oh my god, we're so close And so far we've driven all the way from Tunis We drove down to Kairouan And all the way down here And then you find this Wow Okay, second time in my life driving past a camel crossing Oh my god I love the need for speed here Live life like a camel So now we are finally driving to the Star Wars set Which is so so cool But now the interesting thing will be To see if we can actually drive on the road to get all the way Because some people say you need a four-wheel drive A hotel insists you don't But online they say you do So let's just hope there's not too much sand on this road For now, it's good We're driving all the way on this winding road through the desert So people are talking about the rail paved road ending here Yeah, like a few hundred meters But this is so fun Oh my god They've brushed off the sand Camels all over I wonder how often the camels just like raided the whole site Oh my god Eight-year-old Dan is freaking out right now This is so cool My god, there's literally no other cars here It's just us and the camels Can't wait to be aggressively sold anything and everything to Oh here comes the other car The Hue of Ponta Oh yeah They're Oh, they're the French people that we were Cause you spoke to I spoke to them That is so bad, Oscar Not you honking at them They were driving so weird Look how close to our cars the camel is So what's the name of this planet? This planet? Oh my god I think it's Tatooine But don't quiz me Because as I said, I was very young A young boy You know, it's funny I had actually stopped playing with that toy But now that I see you with it I kind of want to play with it again This is so cool So I don't know about you guys But I don't think of Star Wars as very old films They came out before we were born, of course But this place was built more than 50 years ago The first movie came out, I think 1977 Something like that They're starting to show a little wear and tear But it's so cool to see this in the desert And these little fake, I guess, space antennas But as we expected, the sellers here are quite pushy Since there's not so many people I don't know what these look like in the films But they're definitely not very convincing in real life It's wood It's wood, yeah It's like plywood Obviously, there's nothing inside any of these buildings They're just sets So let's have a look inside of one Oh my god Look at the domes There's no roof It's just fake domes Oh, but there's got to be some places that have like an indoor space as well, right? No, why? Because like the bar scene No, but that's filmed in Hollywood, Tom Oh my god, you mean all of this is fake? All of this is fake? This is all fake It's a lot of fake So those are the domes you saw from inside Can't tell there's no roof, right? This might sound like very ignorant of me Because I'm not at all a Star Wars fan I've watched one movie But to me, like the most amusing thing is the fact that An interstellar civilization with like antennas that would reach out into space Would live in these kind of huts? Yeah, there's something weird going on there We were talking to Yeah, we were talking to getting ATVs now So we might go to the desert for a little bit We're having a bit of a very intense hangover It's so crazy 20 minutes ago, we were the only car here Now there's like I'd say seven or eight cars Which definitely put the pressure off us Which was very nice We ended up doing that super short ATV ride Like we thought we were gonna go to the other site But it turns out it was only like going up to the dune Taking a quick photo Going back down And we paid 20 for that They definitely ripped us off a little bit Good morning! I just had the most Swedish moment I'll say it in Swedish to Oscar I was like But it's true This weather is literally perfect It's amazing To use another Swedish word It is literally lagom temperature It's like the perfect temperature Not to feel too hot Not too cold Perfect humidity Everything is just lagom And just like that It's time to leave Tösör and the south of Tunisia We spent most of the remaining time here enjoying the resort And now it's time to get back in the car And start driving again Another four and a half hours today To our next destination So we're leaving Tösör now We're driving all the way to Sfax Which is a four and a half hour drive I just popped into Carrefour to buy some snacks for the drive The grocery store in Kairouan was absolutely horrendous So I'm hoping that this is better Unfortunately it doesn't really seem like that yet But let's see if they have something that's remotely nutritious to snack on Oh, I do see bananas thankfully So Carrefour ended up coming through a little bit to be honest It wasn't great But they had some interesting snacks First of all these mad corn chips Hot chili Vegan These like healthier digestives that are orange flavor And these are the most exciting These chocolate almost Nutella looking stuffed wafers That don't have any milk Which is pretty insane So I can't believe I found all this All the ingredients were in English on all the boxes Which was amazing And for health Banana One minute we were like completely surrounded by palm trees And now all of a sudden we're driving through the dried out like salt lake So it's like this super super arid desert with like literally no vegetation whatsoever The thing we're driving through is called Xot Aljerid I think It's a salt lake And during the winter like all of this is filled with water But now during the summer months it's just completely dry It's not really like salt flats Definitely nowhere close to like what we saw in Uyuni in Bolivia But I guess they're like salt deposits that just kind of like scatter all over the ground It's insane how we had never seen a real salt flat until this year Actually just less than two months ago And now we're already seeing our third one How do those things work? The first was Bolivia Second was Cyprus And our third is Tunisia On that note we have four hours of driving from this point onward until we get to Sfax We can't wait to arrive Although this road is really beautiful More beautiful than the road we took here So we're very excited to see what lies along the way as well Thoughts on Thuzer? An amazing place but probably not worth the journey to go all the way there If you're in the area absolutely go But neither the hotel nor the place are like you have to visit Tunisia and come all the way for this There's a flight from Tunis down here which definitely makes the journey easier But in my opinion the drive was really crazy to get down here Although the Star Wars was so so cool If you continue like one hour further south I think you get into the actual Sahara Now this time we didn't do that because we don't have time for it So maybe that would be more worth it if you're looking for like the real Saharan experience But we did that just earlier this year in April on our group trip to Morocco So it was kind of recent for us so we didn't really feel like it was worth it to do it again So see you in the city that ends with the word Fax And until then See you around the world Next time on Oscar and Dan We go to our orchestra seats for 50% off by using TiddyTix I had to go in first I'm very picky about where I do it