Star Wars - film sets in Tunisia (2021): Mos Eisley Cantina, Obi-Wan Kenobi's House & Tosche Station

This is the fourth part of a six-location adventure where we track down Tunisia's hidden original Star Wars film sets in the south of the country. Today we are visiting three sites on the island of Djerba: Tosche Station, Mos Eisley Cantina & Obi-Wan Kenobi's House.

Our first site is at the Sidi Jemour Mosque complex on the western coast of Djerba. The mosque represented Tosche Station in a scene that was deleted from the final cut of Episode IV. Filming here took place on 4 April 1976. Tosche Station was basically a run-down power supply station on the outskirts of Anchorhead (a small town on Tatooine). Amazingly, I managed to meet some fellow Star Wars fans here who had flown all the way from the USA! Here is the deleted scene:    • Star Wars 1977 Tosche Station Deleted Scene  

Our second site is Mos Eisley Cantina, just outside Ajim in the south-west of Djerba. The buildings here were used as a film site for Episode IV's Mos Eisley street scenes on Tatooine. The streets around this building also feature as a location for Luke’s landspeeder and a Stormtrooper patrol as the Millennium Falcon escapes from Docking Bay 94. Filming here took place in early April 1976. This site has a ceramic tile mosaic of a Stormtrooper by French urban artist Invader.

Our third and final site is Obi-Wan Kenobi's House, a few kilometers up the western coastal road from Ajim. This ancient mosque-turned fishing hut was filmed as the exterior for “Old Ben” Kenobi’s home on Tatooine for Episode IV. Filming here took place on 5 April 1976. This site has a ceramic tile mosaic of a Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi holding a lightsaber by French urban artist Invader.

Thanks to Galaxy Tours for all this information about these amazing filming sites! You can find out more about the company and their work in Tunisia here:   / teamgalaxytours   or on Twitter:   / teamgalaxytours  

⏱️TIMESTAMPS⏱️

0:00​​​ - Intro
0:35 - Tosche Station
2:47 - Mos Eisley Cantina
4:26 - Obi-Wan Kenobi's House
7:12 - Tunisia's Star Wars tourism potential

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