ALGERIA
Trip Start
Apr 30, 1970
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Trip End
Dec 20, 2007
ALGER, Algeria
Friday, November 3, 1989
in autumn 1989 I made an interesting travel in Algeria in a group of about 15 Italian people
with an algerian student as guide
We visited the beautiful capital of Alger, with its high white french style buildings, an Arab old city center (medina), the museum of the Revolution of 1960 against France and outside the city some roman ruins and mosaics.
We took our airflight to Tamanrasset at more than 4 hours by air in the deep south of this giant country, one of the biggest in Africa.
From this strange town, in the dry and stone desert, with its houses surrounded by walls we started our tour in the desert of Hoggar Tassili by two 4x4 landrovers, our funny arab cooker and two tuareg drivers.
The tour was very interesting: we visited canyons, arid rocky valleys, met many pinnacles and red mountains, a lot of pre-historic paintings on the walls and even climbed the top of a mountain to reach the Father Foucault refuge where this missioner lived before being murdered by locals.
We slept under a million stars sky in our sleeping bag without tents and enjoyed the desert experience that is unique, the rocky red desert similar to the U.S. Monument Valley
