I organized a trip to Tunisia this summer 2025 in a mobile home named Wilson, leaving from Brussels to Palermo where I took the ferry to Tunis. As soon as I disembarked in Tunis, I took the road to Ichkeul National Park, roughly following the same route as Shandos and Stanislaw, via the P8 road and passing through Menzel. Then via the P11 where the road junction leads to the main entrance gate of the park. There is a large porch there that you can't miss.

You can't miss the main entrance to the park along this road either.

It seems that the technique for admission to the park is well-established: I am not the first visitor from the WHS community to have experienced it. It involves politely requesting access to the park, to which the guard asks for official authorization, which you obviously do not have. But with humility and patience, you wait for the guard to stop calling, and some time later, he tells you he can let you in for half an hour, for 40 dinars. You have to negotiate the price: an official entrance to an archaeological site costs +/- 10 dinars, a price that I finally obtained. I was able to enter with Wilson as far as the hammam, which seems abandoned, and I went up the hill to visit the ecomuseum where another guard was waiting for me. I left at my leisure in the other direction from the ecomuseum's observation platform, taking all the time necessary to take beautiful photos.

What's great about this UNESCO site is that you're alone in the world, and the peace and quiet is total. It's true that migratory birds are far from the trail during the lake's low water period, but there are others, passerines, along the hillside, chirping non-stop. The vegetation is also splendid.

For those who are motorized and independent like me it is possible, always with a lot of patience and humility with the warden, to camp in the parking lot at the entrance to the park, which is magnificent at night given the absence of light pollution in this place and practical for observing migratory birds the next morning from the road which runs alongside the park, this time, returning towards the P11 as Els wrote: cattle egret, flamingo and white stork.

Note that Ichkeul National Park is also a biosphere reserve.