The frontier town of Tebessa, in ancient times known as Theveste, is rarely visited by Westerners. Yet Tebessa boasts some impressive Roman ruins – the Arch of Caracalla, the Temple…
The patrimony of Guelma, a small town located in north-eastern Algeria, includes an ancient theatre adorned with marble statues and city walls built on Byzantine foundations to protect the occupying…
Tlemcen, “the town of cherries”, was once one of the most powerful cities in the Maghreb. Tlemcen’s Grand Mosque remains one of North Africa’s most significant Islamic landmarks – surpassed…
Eastern part of the Saharan Massif Central, Tassili n’Ajjer is a sandstone plateau 1,500 to 1,800 m above sea level, inclined to the north and east, the infra-Tassilian furrow, separates from the Ahaggar massif.
Privileged destination, a great classic of unmissable Saharan tourism, a visit to the Assekrem plateau is essential, has been waiting for you since the dawn of time.
Created in 1987 and declared World Heritage of Humanity, the park covers 80% of the massif with its 450,000 km2, the most dazzling of landscapes.
Crossed by the Tropic of Cancer 80 km north of Tamanrasset, the Hoggar (of Tamachek Ahaggar) covers an area of approximately 540,000 km2, or a quarter of the total area of Algeria.
From the south of Gourara, opens the Touat, between the arid plateau of Tadmaït and the plain of Tidikelt. This region is at the crossroads of many communication routes in the Sahara, in particular the road to Mali.
Here too, the foggaras are queen. Here, as in Timimoun, the orchards shine to the point that Adrar has become an agricultural capital of modern Algeria.
Timimoun is known across the Sahara for its splendour of its gardens and the mystery of these names with marine sounds: Aguelman (lake), El Mers (the port), El Mersa (the harbour), from the time of this ancient lake, dead centuries ago.