Motorcycle travel through Tunisia: Enduro tour into the Sahara

As soon as you arrive at the airport, the fun is over! Here the adventure begins! We will pick you up with the donkey cart (or with the support vehicle ;-) ) from the airport, and you will ride in the cargo area to your motorcycle, which we have previously transported to Tunisia. We will go to your motorcycle, and after a cup of tea and a delicious dinner, it’s off to the sleeping bag in the 1000-star hotel under the open sky between cow, dog, and wolf.

On the first long stage, we travel over the Dahr Mountains to the edge of the Sahara. 1000 meters above Chott el Djerid, we set up camp for the night in a cave. A cup of tea and soup over an open fire. Luxury? ... Not at all! We are at the edge of the desert, at the filming location of the movie "The English Patient" - there is nothing here: Except for a fantastic nature!

Via the Rommel track, we reach an outcrop of the Chott el Djerid salt lake with the enduros. It gets hot and exciting at Han Solo's landing station. Behind the scenes of "Star Wars," the sun shimmers. We start with sand driving training. On flat terrain, we familiarize ourselves with the first basics of sand driving: proper acceleration, shifting, and braking.

The right steering, accelerating, drifting, and the feeling for power as well as one's own shortcomings are just as important learning factors as reprogramming habits. Line of sight and posture are the essential points on today's day of fears. The focus on the line at 70%, the mobility on the motorcycle, and steering with throttle input are taught and experienced today in the basics. It's an uphill climb: The first dunes are 30 centimeters high, the last 30 meters!

Enduro romance is when you blast like a madman through an seemingly endless salt lake in scorching heat. Before the trip, you were still reasonable and wouldn't have driven over 30 km/h here, let alone standing up. Staying steady on the gas and shifting your balance correctly is today's practice session and at the same time the day's stage. We cover the last kilometers before the camp in civilization on the road.

Rüdi, later also called "no fence," can tell many long stories about this day, during which almost all participants will reach their personal limits.... It goes through the large dune field on tracks and marked paths across the Tunisian Sahara. The bath in the oasis is the ideal place to wind down the day and relax the muscles a bit.

Driving over sand fields, pistes, and roads through the Dahar Mountains, we return to civilization at the hotel by the sea from the early morning hours until sunset. The last evening, as experience shows, the desert dust is washed down at the bar and celebrated!

We load the motorcycles back onto the trailer and the guide sets off for home. Here, our paths temporarily diverge. We will see each other again a few thousand kilometers away next weekend at OVERCROSS in Germany, where the motorcycles will be returned. Individual flights home for all participants. A last glance at Tunisia before the plane leaves the African continent behind. Now everyone has a few hours to reflect on the experiences.