Occupied since the prehistory, cited (roman then conquered by the Byzantine and then the Arabs Nefta the wonderful becomes a high place sufism. It has more than one hundred marabouts (Zaouia Sidi Brahim) and 24 mosques. Nefta wedged between the Chott el Jérid and the sand dunes, is famous for its trash the bottom of which burst forth sources to the origin of a palm grove.Marabouts and mosques have been built on the edge of the recycle bin. By far Nefta appears as a carpet carelessly forgotten by the angels on the sand in the desert, by a summer night.The architecture is typical , as in Tozeur bricks full of ochre color. This architecture of biblical villages has attracted several filmmakers, Rossellini has chosen this village to recreate the life of the Messiah.

The Lizard red is the name given to a tourist train of Tunisia browsing the gorge of Selja, a canyon to cliffs in the center which flows 'oued Selja'

The departure fait the station of Métlaoui (city located between Tozeur and Gafsa) in the center-west of the country, the train browsing then 43 kilometers on a portion borrowed by the trains mining evacuating phosphates.

The Marazigues, the most important tribe in the southern Nefzaoua (approximately 20 000 persons) are grouped together at DOUZ which is their capital .Douz is the door of the desert and lives in pace of its market weekly or meet the last nomadic pastoralists of camels and goats ; it is also the departure of camel and a center of babouches crafts in hair and leather of camels sewn together in the hand. If Mahjoub, son of an ancestor of Marazigues summed up in a poem the ideal nomade :

"I will make my sons far of wetlands, which are the man is a slave of stifling under the affront, rather their honor except, bellies half empty, and not bellies fed to the price of humiliation"

A few kilometers between Tozeur and Nefta, runway join the first dunes crescent-shaped surrounding the Chott El Gharsa to admire the sunset, Join Ong Djemel (resembling the head and neck of a camel), where the erosion combined by wind and water has carved of spectacular forms. One of places of shooting of the "Star Wars " and " English Patient.

Throught the oasis of Deguache , where you can taste the " legmi " juice of palm, and hiking up'to the Zaouia of Sidi Boulhel (Marabout, companion of the prophet) in a fantastic landscape framework of turning of " English Patient. All years for the feast of marabouts, the inhabitants climb this mountain

Spend a few days to the Zaouia, share their meals and  partys in the honor of the Marabout. Sunset on the Chott El Djérid (Salted Lake) with locally " aioun " sources artesian, and without forgetting the mirages.

Sened is one of the few places of Tunisia where we are talking about a dialect berber which a elsewhere borrowed the name of the city to designate. Essentially agricultural, the resources of Sened are also drawn a crafts carpet weaving as well as its vocation of administrative center.

The mountains around Sened, case the Djebel Ourbat and the Djebel Majoura, were the theater of several fighting between the military resistance Tunisian and the French forces during the period of the protectorate.