It can be toured by donkey or camel, and contains a 'Paradise Garden' profuse with exotic flowers and fruits. Tozeur's town buildings are built with unfired yellow bricks picked out in geometric patterns similar to those found on Arab rugs. There is an international airport and Tozeur and Nefta are sometimes featured as destinations in package deals, 'twin-centring' them with a coastal resort. Nefta's oasis resembles a bowl, and is known locally as a basket or 'horn of plenty'. The town, made up of sand-coloured houses, is on a plateau above it.
Guides are available for the trek on donkey back to the oasis.
North of Tozeur and Nefta are the mainly mud-walled villages of Chebika, Tamerza and Mides . To the southeast, via Kebili, lies Douz , on the Grand Erg Oriental , the great sand-sea of the eastern Sahara. Its Thursday camel market is a camera-worthy event, as is the marhoul ceremony celebrating the start of the seasonal desert migration. Around this region live veiled people of pure Berber stock. You may also find a 'desert rose' of crystalline minerals baked by the sun into petal-like formations.