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If travelling from Lisbon, your departure from Lisbon will be at 22:30, arriving in Algiers at 00:15 on the 19th.
Depending on your arrival time, we start the tour with a pick up at the airport.
Overnight and rest
Transfer to the Hotel Suisse Algiers (central location) or similar.
Breakfast and then a busy day in Algiers!
Guided tour of the Casbah with lunch at a local resident’s home, followed by a panoramic city tour of Algiers.
The Kasbah is a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It is an UNESCO World Heritage Site, stands in one of the finest coastal sites on the Mediterranean, overlooking the islands where a Carthaginian trading-post was established in the 4th century BC.
There are the remains of the citadel, old mosques and Ottoman-style palaces as well as the remains of a traditional urban structure associated with a deep-rooted sense of community.
Following lunch in the afternoon, a tour of Algiers, sites included in this tour:
Botanical garden of Hamma – Garden of the trials, Memorial of the martyrs
Basilica of Our Lady of Africa, National Museum of Bardo, Museum of Fine Arts
Transfer to Algiers airport for the domestic flight to Ghardaïa at 21:30.
Arrival in Ghardaïa, transfer to the residence.
Dinner upon arrival
Overnight stay at the Aakham Resedency in the middle of the palmerai of Beni Isguen.
Breakfast at the residence, followed by a visit of Ghardaïa’s Ksar.
Ghardaïa, chief town of the Mʾzab Oasis, north-central Algeria. It lies along the left bank of the Wadi Mzab in the northern Sahara (desert). Founded in the 11th century, it was built around the cave (ghār) reputedly inhabited by the female saint Daïa (the cave is still venerated by Mʾzabite women).
Ghardaïa is a fortified town with white and red clay houses that rise in terraces and arcades toward the pyramid-style mosque at its centre. It is divided into three walled sectors. At the core is the Mʾzabite section, built around the mosque and an arcaded square.
The traditional Jewish quarter, with its many wells and craft shops, lies to the east, and the Medabian quarter is to the northwest.
The city is surrounded by the Sahara Desert, the Wadi Mzab and the M’zab Valley. Locals in Ghardaia still practice traditional agricultural farming to earn a living. The city boasts an estimated sixty thousand palm trees, on which locals are dependant for dates. No trees are cut down in the city as locals believe they are living forms, so wood is only used for roofing and other crafts once a tree has died. This oasis has also been a popular trading post for centuries, with nomads and traders moving through the city. But there is one craft that the city is famous for, and that is carpet making.
They weave their unique carpets from goat hair and their patterns are geometric and simple, but absolute masterpieces. Generally, the carpets are black and white, but with the annual Ghardaia Carpet Festival each year, it has become a contest amongst the best carpet weavers.
Lunch at the residence.
Afternoon visit to excursion to the sand dunes of El Mansourah (60 km from Ghardaïa) for a desert experience.
Return to the residence for dinner and overnight stay.
Overnight at the Aakham Resedency.
After breakfast, departure for a visit to Ksar El Atteuf, one of the oldest ksars in the M’Zab Valley.
Return to the residence for lunch.
Afternoon visit of the fortified city of Beni Isguen, known for its preserved traditions and local crafts.
Transfer to Ghardaïa airport for the flight to Algiers at 20:45.
Arrival in Algiers, transfer to the Hotel Suisse Algiers
Overnight stay.
Following early breakfast, pickup for our visit to Tipaza.
One of Algeria’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites, on the shores of the Mediterranean, Tipaza was an ancient Punic trading-post conquered by Rome and turned into a strategic base for the conquest of the kingdoms of Mauritania.
It comprises a unique group of Phoenician, Roman, palaeochristian and Byzantine ruins alongside indigenous monuments such as the Kbor er Roumia, the great royal mausoleum of Mauritania.
Lunch optional and free
On the way back to Algiers, we will stop at the Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania.
The Royal Mauretanian Mausoleum on the western Mediterranean coast, 12 km from Tipasa. This royal burial has been attributed to Bocchus and dates back to the 1st century BC. Its construction technique is Berber but the exterior cladding is Punic.
End of the day, late evening, transfer to the airport for your departure flight.
Free dinner.
The tour ends at the airport for check-in and security formalities and to board the flight.
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Algeria is the largest country on the African continent, 80% of which is occupied by the largest desert on earth – the Sahara. The length of the coastline of Algeria is quite impressive too – as much as 998 km.
Having at its disposal a rather large territory, the natural world of Algeria is very diverse, and includes: plains, deserts and semi-deserts, including sandy and stony, the highlands of Ahaggar, and also the Atlas Mountains.
The climate of Algeria in the northern part of the country is subtropical Mediterranean, in the central and southern parts of the country it’s a tropical desert.
The climate is changing from north to south. On the Mediterranean coast, the climate is more comfortable for living, it has a moderately warm, humid winter and a hot summer. And the central and southern parts of Algeria are more severe – the Sahara Desert lies here, where it’s very dry and very hot for almost a year, besides huge sandstorms often rise here. Features of desert areas are very sharp fluctuations in air temperatures during day and night. The climate of northern Sahara is determined by stable high-pressure cells located above the Northern Tropics.
Autumn in Algeria, in the northern part of the country, begins in early October. The first half of the month, as a rule, is sunny and quite comfortable for rest, from the middle of October the real autumn comes on the coast, the sky is clouded with low clouds, rains can pass, but this happens infrequently. In the central part of the country, there are practically no rains in October, and the air temperature here is higher, of the order of + 20 °C in the daytime. November continues the trend of October with a decrease in the average air temperature, on average, to + 15 °C, the weather in November, as a rule, is not pleasant, it’s pretty cloudy, and the rains are coming.
Required clothing
Cotton and linen lightweights are best for winter months and for evenings in desert areas. Woollens and light rainwear are advised for the winter along the coast and the Hauts Plateaux. Remember that desert temperatures can drop very low during the night, so don’t get caught out with only flimsy layers. South of the Sahara, from mid December to mid-January, temperatures drop and warm clothes are necessary both in the morning and the evening. A mountain sleeping bag is also required when camping.
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The currency in Algeria is the Dinar. Dinar (DZD) = 100 centimes. Notes are in denominations of DZD1,000, 500, 200, 100 and 50. Coins are in denominations of DZD100, 50, 20, 10, 5, 2 and 1, and 50, 20, 1O, 5 and 1 centimes.
Note: Because of the very strict adherence of the authorities to these regulations, visitors are strongly advised not to be associated with the black market, which tends to concentrate on the Euro and portable electronics.
Credit cards are generally only accepted in urban areas. Payment in cash is always preferred.
ATM – here are two or three functioning ATMs in Algiers, but they cannot be relied upon and there is black market for currency exchange.
ln the past, difficulties have arisen when trying to exchange currency in Algeria, with only one national bank (La Banque Extérieure d’Algérie) able to exchange foreign currency at branches in major business centres. Difficulties are now decreasing and it is possible, for example, to exchange currency at some of the larger hotels. However, the facilities for currency exchange remain quite limited.
Covid
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Yellow fever
Yellow fever vaccination certificate required for travellers aged 1 year or over arriving from countries with risk of yellow fever transmission and for travellers having transited more than 12 hours through the airport of a country with risk of yellow fever transmission.
Vaccination against hepatitis B and tuberculosis is sometimes advised. Rabies is present.
For those at high risk, vaccination before arrival should be considered. lf you are bitten, seek medical help without delay.
There is little to no risk of malaria.
Algeria’s climate is dry and hot, so wearing sunscreen and a hat to shield from midday sun, is advised, as is having drinking water with you.
