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Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. Benjamin Disraeli
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children. Robert Benchley
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. Mason Cooley
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." Daniel J. Boorstin
There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror. Orson Welles
Africa > Algeria
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The Mediterranean coast enjoys a mild climate but sometimes wet summer, Algiers and the towns of the coast can also be stifling. Spring and fall are the best seasons to visit and swim. In mountainous regions a little further south Kabylie, Aures) summers are very hot and dry and winters cold and snowy in altitude. Still further south, with the Sahara desert begins a hot and that will be really suited to the visit from November to March. |
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What to do ?
Still relatively unspoiled by mass tourism because of the political, Algeria has, however, many attractions, both natural and cultural.
The attacks in recent years has discouraged tourists from cities. Algiers is home but wonders: the mosques, the Citadel, Notre-Dame d'Afrique, the palace of the Rats, the Bardo Museum, to name a few. Oran offers for its Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Ghardaia old town, its cemetery and its underground mosque, not to mention his carpets, and Tlemcen in by his charm and Medina mosques. The Sahara is the jewel in Algeria and you will not be able to overlook its discovery in the region of Tamanrasset, a town of sandy streets and houses in the shape of cubes, the Hoggar and ocher rocks, dunes and the blue men of the desert, you will project in another space and another time. The Tassili Plateau N'Ajjer you will discover its tormented landscape of canyons and gorges as well as rock paintings dating back 4000 years. To the west, oasis Timimoun deploys its giant palm and its ancient salt lakes: it is also the starting point of raids in the dunes of the Grand Erg Occidental. |
Algeria : The basics
Airlines serving Algiers, but also the cities of the Sahara at the start of the tours organized by travel suppliers. The boat from Marseilles are also widely used solution to visit Algeria.
A visa is required. The currency in circulation is the Algerian dinar. The budget provision is not very high: you can eat a meal very correct, and sometimes delicious, for 10 € and find a room for 60 €. The hotel infrastructure is limited but the quality hotels are much cheaper than in France. To your health, avoid drinking tap water, fruit peel, and protect yourself from mosquitoes. If you make a trek in the desert, expect a first aid kit base without forgetting sunscreen products. For travel within the country, planes and buses operate effectively. For now, it is advisable to travel to Algeria rather an organized tour. What to buy : traditional silver jewelry, leather goods and copper, pottery, carpets. |
Towns in Algeria
Algiers is a city of just over two million inhabitants, capital of the country, an important port in the Mediterranean, it is nicknamed Alger la Blanche. Built on the hillsides of the Sahel in shades of narrow streets and alleys, stairways traveled all sizes and shapes, it offers colonial-style buildings and other Islamic-style, mostly painted white , which gives color to the city. The sea extends north and east, and is the Bay of Algiers.
Life is very dynamic, both culturally and socially or economically.
Do not forget to visit the Casbah, the heart of the city raised many treasures, palaces, mausoleums and mosques. The Monument of Martyrs is another essential step: 92 meters high, it represents a place of worship dedicated to the memory of martyrs of the War of Independence. The oldest building in the city is the Great Mosque, dating from the 11th century. Other sites worth a visit: the Basilica of neo-Byzantine Our Lady of Africa, the Villa Abd-el-Tif, the Palais des Rais, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the People's Palace and Museum National Classical Antiquities and Muslim are examples among others.
