"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list."
When we left Constantine, Algeria for Tunisia, annoyingly we had to fly west to Algiers then backtrack east flying directly over the city we’d just left! All because of uncertainty about being able to cross the land border. Consequently, most
We had three great days to visit two UNESCO world heritage sites (Djemila and Timgad), and Constantine (the “City of Bridges”). Constantine was also a major crossroads of the Roman empire, known as Colonia Constantiniana. Three fantastic sights in three
A peculiarity of the Air Algerie schedule is that all flights seem to have to go through Algiers, and ususally with a terrible schedule! So when we left the desert in Ghardaia, we had to fly back to Algiers before
We spent a full day seeing 3 of the 5 ksour (fortified towns) of the UNESCO-listed M’Zab Valley. An intriguing mixture of markets, medinas, and mosques that in some ways seemed to have not changed in 900 years since the
A camel looks like something put together by a committee. Attributed to T. R. Quaife in “Reader’s Digest” As we as we said in our “Will You Ride a Camel?” post before we departed on this trip, we were unsure
Our first day in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the M’Zab Valley was split between the oasis and the Sahara. In the morning we walked through the palmerie (palm grove) of the town of Ghardaia, the largest of the
A more appropriate quote for the day would be Pepe le Pew’s “… you do not have to come weeth me to zee Casbah: we are already here!“. (See the Youtube clip below.) Our first real day in Algeria (post
We began our trip to Northern Africa and France with great expectations. One of us is a fan of the show Emily in Paris. In a Season 4 episode, there is an Air France product placement in which Emily visits
Whenever we say that we’re going to northern Africa and visiting the Sahara Desert we frequently get asked the question “Will you ride a camel?”. Actually, we’re not sure if we’ll do the almost obligatory camel ride in the Sahara.