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Saharan Algeria is the vast desert — dotted with oases — in the south of the country.
tracks
Sand Dune at the Cultural Park of Ahaggar in southern Algeria
Cities
Map of Saharan Algeria
- 1 Chenachene
- 2 Djanet
- 3 El Goléa
- 4 Ghardaïa
- 5 Illizi
- 6 Ouargla
- 7 Reggane
- 8 Tamanrasset
- 9 Timimoun
- 10 Tindouf — border town in the southwest, with a large Sahrawi population that escaped the conflict in nearby Western Sahara
- 11 Touggourt
Other destinations
- 1 Hoggar Mountains
- 2 M'zab - a valley with extraordinary, singular architecture; a UNESCO World Heritage site
- 3 Tassili n'Ajjer National Park - a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Understand
Beni Isquen in the M'zab Valley
Get in
Ain Beida Airport (OGX IATA), Aguenar-Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport (TMR IATA), Tindouf Airport (TIN IATA).
Get around
See
- 1 In Eker test site (about 150 km north of Tamanrasset). France, the fourth country to produce a nuclear weapon conducted some of their early tests in Sahara as much of Western Africa still was a French colony into the 1960s. On May 1, 1962 an underground test at In Eker went wrong and observers including soldiers and government officials were exposed to radiation. If you happen to drive north-south across Sahara along the road from Algiers to Tamanrasset, you will pass right next to the area.
Itineraries
Berber cavalry at a wedding ceremony outside Ghardaïa