Coast, Casbah and Sahara Tour
Culture, coast and landscape
Duration: 15 Days
Key Features: Algiers, Oran, Annaba, Constantine, Timgad
Accommodation: Hotels
Depsit Payment:
Once you obtain your visa, a 10% deposit payment will be due, payable in GBP via Bank transfer to a UK Bank (details will be sent to you).
Balancing Payment
-The balance: payable in cash (EU/GBP/USD) on arrival if you wish,
or
-Via Bank transfer, (two weeks prior to arrival) whatever is suitable for You.
Refunds:
The deposit is fully refundable up to day of travel.
Arrive Algiers, transfer to the hotel in the city centre, for check-in, followed by a walk & drive orientation tour of central Algiers.
Depart for Oran via Mediterranean coast, visit Tombeau de la Chrétienne (Mausoleum of Mauritania), and Tipasa: amphitheater, 4th century basilica, forum, museum.
A visit to Casbah in Algiers, starting with the Palace of Dey “Dar Essoltane” to Bardo Museum Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts.
Annaba : Hippo Regius the Phoenicians, Berbers , Romans , and Vandals all past through here and home to the Philosopher Saint Augustine.
The extraordinary Roman site of Tiddis (monumental gate, baptistery, Villa of Mosaic). Followed by tour in and round Constantine.
UNESCO World Heritage site of Djemila, formerly Cuicul: forum, temples, basilicas, triumphal arches, superb mosaic museum followed by Beni Fouda.
A whole of day wander ingin UNESCO site of Timgad and Roman fort town of Lambaesis (amphitheatre, praetorian guard) and Medracen (Numidian royal tomb).
Start a day with visit to the spectacle valley of Tighanimine, Troglodyte village of Rhoufi, El Kantara (“Calceus Herculis”), Biskra then continue through Sahara to El Oued.
El Oued (camel market) and Gumar (Zaouia Tidjania school of Islam, museum, Jewish heritage) followed by relaxing afternoon at hotel (swimming pool, sand dunes, verdant gardens).
A delightful journey cross the Sahar desert cities Touggourt (center of date trade), Temacine (visit to Zaouia) then continue our voyage to Beni-Isguen for three nights in hotel situated in remote palm grove.
UNESCO World Heritage site of M’Zab Valley including Ghardaia: old town, market square, “four-fingered” mosque, tombs, date farm.
Morning at leisure in palm grove followed by walled town of Beni Isguen.
Return flight from Ghardaia to Algiers and transfer to hotel for two nights. Free time (book stores, shopping…)..
Visit Monument to the Fallen , Museum of the Liberation, Museum of Fine Arts (one of the Mediterraneans great “undiscovered” art galleries with work by Algerian painters and canvasses by Pissarro, Gauguin and Monet) followed by Jardin dEssai .
Transfer to Algiers International airport for departure..
Tour Timeline (days)
Depsit Payment:
Once you obtain your visa, a 10% deposit payment will be due, payable in GBP via Bank transfer to a UK Bank (details will be sent to you).
Balancing Payment
-The balance: payable in cash (EU/GBP/USD) on arrival if you wish,
or
-Via Bank transfer, (two weeks prior to arrival) whatever is suitable for You.
Refunds:
The deposit is fully refundable up to day of travel.
Culture, coast and landscape
Arrive Algiers, transfer to the hotel in the city centre, for check-in, followed by a walk & drive orientation tour of central Algiers.
Depart for Oran via Mediterranean coast, visit Tombeau de la Chrétienne (Mausoleum of Mauritania), and Tipasa: amphitheater, 4th century basilica, forum, museum.
A visit to Casbah in Algiers, starting with the Palace of Dey “Dar Essoltane” to Bardo Museum Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Arts.
Annaba : Hippo Regius the Phoenicians, Berbers , Romans , and Vandals all past through here and home to the Philosopher Saint Augustine.
The extraordinary Roman site of Tiddis (monumental gate, baptistery, Villa of Mosaic). Followed by tour in and round Constantine.
UNESCO World Heritage site of Djemila, formerly Cuicul: forum, temples, basilicas, triumphal arches, superb mosaic museum followed by Beni Fouda.
A whole of day wander ingin UNESCO site of Timgad and Roman fort town of Lambaesis (amphitheatre, praetorian guard) and Medracen (Numidian royal tomb).
Start a day with visit to the spectacle valley of Tighanimine, Troglodyte village of Rhoufi, El Kantara (“Calceus Herculis”), Biskra then continue through Sahara to El Oued.
El Oued (camel market) and Gumar (Zaouia Tidjania school of Islam, museum, Jewish heritage) followed by relaxing afternoon at hotel (swimming pool, sand dunes, verdant gardens).
A delightful journey cross the Sahar desert cities Touggourt (center of date trade), Temacine (visit to Zaouia) then continue our voyage to Beni-Isguen for three nights in hotel situated in remote palm grove.
UNESCO World Heritage site of M’Zab Valley including Ghardaia: old town, market square, “four-fingered” mosque, tombs, date farm.
Morning at leisure in palm grove followed by walled town of Beni Isguen.
Return flight from Ghardaia to Algiers and transfer to hotel for two nights. Free time (book stores, shopping…)..
Visit Monument to the Fallen , Museum of the Liberation, Museum of Fine Arts (one of the Mediterraneans great “undiscovered” art galleries with work by Algerian painters and canvasses by Pissarro, Gauguin and Monet) followed by Jardin dEssai .
Transfer to Algiers International airport for departure..
From the Mediterranean Coast to the Grandeur Sahara
This 15-day circuit offers a delightful taste of Algeria’s landscape and culture from the Mediterranean coast to the fringes of the Sahara desert. It includes
- no less than five UNESCO sites
- the jewel of Algiers the old casbah
- the Roman antiquities of Tipasa, Djemila
- Timgad the Pompeii of Africa
- The M’Zab Vally the Sarah towns of Biskra and El Oued “town of a thousand domes
