10 days covering the very best that Algeria has to offer
Magical Algeria
Oran on the Mediterranean coast, an elegant city nicknamed the “Bride of Mediterranean sea” most Spanish influenced City in Algeria. Tlemcen, offers diverse heritage from ancient Roman to the French and not to mention the Arab and Islam civilisation.
Duration: 10 Days
Key Features: Algiers, Oran, Constantine, M'zab Valley
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.
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.
Oran (Bey’s Palace, 14th-century fort of Merinid Sultan Abou Hassan) then drive to Tlemcen: 13th-century Mosque of Sidi Bel Hassan
Return to Oran for further visits (fine colonial architecture) then by air to Algiers for overnight.
Depart for UNESCO World Heritage site of Djemila (ancient garrison of Cuicul): forum, temples, basilicas, triumphal arches, superb mosaic museum. then continue to Constanttine. .
Constantine: Whole day visit: museum, Casbah, suspension bridge, Palace of Ahmed Bey. And the delightful Roman site of Tiddis .
Ghardaia, (one of five UNESCO-protected Saharan towns that occupy the M’Zab valley) for three nights at oasis just outside Beni Isguen.
Whole two days visit of M’Zab Valley including Ghardaia: old town, market square, “four-fingered” mosque, tombs, date farm. followed by walled town of Beni Isguen .
Flight to Algiers International airport for departure home.
The very best of Algeria
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.
Oran (Bey’s Palace, 14th-century fort of Merinid Sultan Abou Hassan) then drive to Tlemcen: 13th-century Mosque of Sidi Bel Hassan
Return to Oran for further visits (fine colonial architecture) then by air to Algiers for overnight.
Depart for UNESCO World Heritage site of Djemila (ancient garrison of Cuicul): forum, temples, basilicas, triumphal arches, superb mosaic museum. then continue to Constanttine. .
Constantine: Whole day visit: museum, Casbah, suspension bridge, Palace of Ahmed Bey. And the delightful Roman site of Tiddis .
Ghardaia, (one of five UNESCO-protected Saharan towns that occupy the M’Zab valley) for three nights at oasis just outside Beni Isguen.
Whole two days visit of M’Zab Valley including Ghardaia: old town, market square, “four-fingered” mosque, tombs, date farm. followed by walled town of Beni Isguen .
Flight to Algiers International airport for departure home.
The best of Algiers culture, coast and landscape
Algiers, by contrast, is a charming Mediterranean city “Alger la blanche” (Algiers the white) where once during the Second World War Churchill, Eisenhower and General De Gaulle met and planned the post war world’s future. Algiers, is a mixture of French colonial architecture, Ottomans crowned by the authentic neo - moorish Casbah Unesco site – a short drive from to the old Tipasa Albert Camus’s paradise of love an glory.
Ghardaia ,in the Saharan settlement The M'zab valley UNESCO world heritage site, rich with culture it was founded by the Mozabites, an Ibadi sect of the Amazigh Muslims.
Next we venture back to the Mediterranean coast, Oran, an elegant city – nicknamed the “Bride of Mediterranean sea” most Spanish influenced City in Algeria, birth place to Yves Saint Laurent and Hélène Cixous. In World War II, Oran was one of the landing points in Operation Torch.
Tlemcen, with its diverse heritage from ancient Roman to the French and not to mention the Arab and Islam civilisation. We will be honoured guests at the Great Mosque, one of North Africa's greatest Islamic landmarks.
