Tunisia: Yamaha Destination Motorcycle Trip

The tour bomber lands hard under the weight of the "all in package tourist mass". When the plane spits you out, we catch you at the exit and take you on an adventure journey into the unknown. A warm wind welcomes you with the OVERCROSS Adventure Team and the "unassuming Yamaha Tenere 700 Rally, WE are ready to get your heart rate into the red in the coming days! Welcome to Africa, enjoy your last supper before the adventure.

The sun rises over the Tunisian island of Djerba, ignition on and start of the Tunisia Challenge: The roar of engines breaks the silence of the Dahar mountains, the warm-up day serves to preserve the herd, which will experience something extreme and is carefully driven through the winding paths of the Dahar. Passing the cave dwellings of Gomrassen and Medenine, we ride the Tenere 700 Rally through the rugged beauty of this region, which gained fame from the Star Wars films. Luxury was yesterday, today the endurists will sleep in a cave hotel, whose walls whisper stories of bygone times.

The tires of your machine crunch on the gravel and rough stones of the tracks at the foot of the Dahar mountains. We dive into the vastness of the Tunisian Sahara, the foothills of the Dahar mountains lie behind us, before us the Sahara with a splash of green on the endless horizon. Here, amidst the golden sand, we reach an oasis, cold beer in the 30 degrees warm natural pool of the oasis is the highlight of today's journey.

This day will teach you to ride, you are in the midst of the toughest fighting day of the motorcycle trip. A day for flying Dutchmen like Wim and Kevin Gallas, one flies over the dunes the other on his nose? It will be a fierce day full of challenges and suffering, as you try to impose your riding style on the Sahara! Passing the French fort, the battle of studs against sand begins, pilot against the forces of flight. Rock and Roll, if you survive the day it will leave a deep notch in your list of stories. In an authentic desert camp, you will break your speed record in falling asleep.

We gather around the warm campfire, drink the last sip of coffee and take the last kilometers of the desert with learned ease. We reach the black ribbon of civilization, which leads past markets, date plantations, and Tunisian coffee houses. At the edge of Chot el Djerid, the scorching heat awaits and marks the spot for the night, while the desert whispers its stories to the starry sky, we let the "blinds" down.

The journey leads over the Jott el Jerid, past historical battlefields and back over the Rommel track into the Dahar mountains. An impressive phosphate cave serves as your sleeping quarters, surrounded by the secrets of bygone times. In the campsite among the rocks above the Sahara, we close the sound of silence from the stories of the desert in our dreams.

The last off-road stretch through a small gorge leads us back to civilization. Passing date palm oases, we race on endlessly long-looking asphalt tracks towards the horizon until we reach the Mediterranean. On the old rickety ferry, we cross to the island, the last look back at the desert region, with memories of the adventures of the last days, which will be firmly anchored in your heart. The feast by the sea is the crowning conclusion of a sensational enduro journey through the Tunisian Sahara!

With a breakfast by the sea, the last day begins. The sun of Africa accompanies you on the way home as you say goodbye to a country that has snuck into your heart. At the airport in Djerba, it’s "Goodbye Tunisia" - for now, until OVERCROSS calls to the next adventure.