Algeria

Northern Africa

The largest country in Africa, most of it Sahara. Its draws run from the Mediterranean capital of Algiers and its UNESCO-listed Casbah, through the great Roman cities of Timgad and Djemila and the hilltop M'zab towns of Ghardaia, to the deep south: the prehistoric rock-art plateau of Tassili n'Ajjer and the volcanic peaks of the Hoggar around Tamanrasset. Saharan travel is permit-based and under standing security advisories.

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What you can do in Algeria

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Tassili n'AjjerJan Feb Mar Nov DecTassili n'Ajjer is the greatest open-air gallery of prehistoric art in the world, and the only way to see it properly is on foot. Across a high sandstone plateau the size of a small country, weathered into forests of rock, natural arches and slot canyons, are many thousands of engravings and paintings made over roughly twelve thousand years. They show a Sahara that was green: herds of cattle, elephants, giraffe and hippo, hunters with bows, dancers, and later the horses and camels that came as the land dried. Walking among them for several days, sleeping out under the plateau's enormous skies with Tuareg guides and camels carrying the camp, is a way to feel the depth of that history rather than glance at it. The landscape alone would justify the trip, with ancient cypresses that have survived millennia of drought and dunes running up against black rock, but it is the art, at eye level on the canyon walls, that makes this one of the most extraordinary treks anywhere. It is remote, hard-won and unforgettable.

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