Things To Do in Algeria

• Visit Algiers' Bardo Ethnographic and Local Art Museum and the National Museum of Fine Arts, which are amongst the finest museums in North Africa.

• Within easy reach of Algiers, along the coast, lie some fine resorts. Zeralda is a beach resort with a holiday village and a replica nomad village. To the east of Algiers, the Turquoise Coast offers rocky coves and long beaches within easy reach of the city, equipped with sports, cruise and watersports facilities. The Sidi Fredj peninsula has a marina, an open-air theatre and complete amenities, including sporting facilities.

• Along the coast from Oran, which is primarily a business centre and an oil depot, there are a number of resorts, many with well-equipped hotels. Notable beaches include Ain El Turk, Les Andalouses, Canastel, Kristel, Mostaganem and Sablettes.

• The Sahara is the most striking and also most forbidding feature of the country. The best way to enter the south is to cross the El Kautara Gorges to the south of Constantine. The sudden glimpse of the Sahara through the El Kautara Gorges is breathtaking. These gorges are said to separate the winter areas from the land of everlasting summer and are called Fouur Es Sahra (’the Sahara’s mouth’) by the inhabitants.

• The special feature of the holy town of Beni-Isguen, not far from Ghardaia, is its permanent auction market.

• Picturesque Tamanrasset, situated at the heart of the Hoggar Mountains, is a large town with many hotels and restaurants. Tourists often stay in ‘Tam’ (as it is sometimes called) and use it as a base for touring the mountains or hiking in the open desert to the south and west in the company of camel drivers who carry their luggage. It is also a popular winter holiday resort. It is visited regularly by the camel caravans of les hommes bleus, blue-robed Touaregs, who are the ancient nomadic inhabitants of this wide region.

• Tour the Tassili N’Ajjer, or ’Plateau of Chasms’, a vast volcanic plateau crossed by massive gorges gouged out by rivers which have long since dried out or gone underground. The Tassili conceals a whole group of entirely unique rupestrian paintings (rock paintings), which go back at least as far as the neolithic age.

source:www.worldtravelguide.net