Areas of filming in Tunisia

• Tataouine = Tatooine. Georges Lucas modified the name of this place to name the planet.
• The canyon of Sidi Bouhel where r2d2 was kidnapped before arriving to tozeur
• The Sidi Driss hotel in Matmata is Luke Skywalker's house
• The Igloo in Chott el Jerid isThe exterior of Luke's house.
• The canteen where Luke met Han Solo is In Djerba, in the city of Ajim, . In the area, the house of Obi Wan Kenobi. Is Not contemplated in the Tour because there is nothing left to see.

• Tataouine. To give life to the slave town of episode I they used the ksars, fortified dwellings that the Berbers built. In Ksar Hadada.
• Oung el Jemel. There is part of the scenery of the city of Mos Espa, home of Anakin.
• Mides inspired the pod race. A great storm destroyed the scenery.

• Tatooine
• Lars family farm. Chott el Jerid.
• Matmata. Farm interiors.

• Outside of Tanis, Steven Spielberg used the same location that George Lucas used in the filming of Star Wars. The canyon where the Nazis carry the ark on pilgrimage is the same as the kidnapping of R2D2, Sidi Bouhlel.
• The scenes of Cairo were set in Kairouan. There, the team had to remove between 200 and 300 television antennas from the houses. In the bar where the scene was shot between Indiana and Belloq there are some pictures of the shooting.

The director, Anthony Minguella, visited Egypt and Morocco looking for the ideal place to shoot the film but found it in Tunisia.

"The Tunisian Sahara is perfect, like Lawrence of Arabia's," he said.