© Rachid DEHAG
© Rachid DEHAG 
© Rachid DEHAG 
© Rachid DEHAG November to March is a convenient time to travel to the desert. The Algerian Sahara is one of the most beautiful deserts in the world, as a kind of prehistoric open-air museum with bizarre rocks and high mountains and sand dunes.
artists and writers have visited them, the legendary "blue Men ", the Tuareg, who described reports of gazelles and rock drawings.
Tamanrasset, 2000 kilometers south of Algiers. The road leads past the center of a white-painted barracks. It is by shady arcades lined with white, which are newly renovated. Left the stadium, the right of the station. The houses in the old center light in the afternoon sun in brown and orange colors, they are built of clay. On the square of the 1 November is a bizarrely bent tamarisk. It was the beginning of the 20th Century, the only tree in Tamanrasset, but at that time the place consisted of only a few thatched huts between two dry river beds at the base of the Hoggar.
Abdelkader Hiri through the first house of the village, the hermitage of the French missionary Charles de Foucauld, which was built in 1905. "A century ago, as Charles de Foucauld arrived, there were 20 fires, he said if you. three people per fire count, there were then 60 people. Today, more than a century later, there are 78 000 "
A special attraction is the camel races that take place every Friday in Tamanrasset in the dry river bed Oued Sersouf. Brahim Damerna organizes the race: "It takes speed, endurance and strength to win, And to the camels. must be well trained to stay in such a crowd on the track. "The people of Tamanrasset fire to animals and riders, the camels run with big ears and baggy lips on the racetrack and swirling dust. The riders sit with your feet swing forward on the cusp, its tail and wiggling to the rhythm of the camels Tribbelgalopps. This looks graceful, and witty. Although the Jeep has replaced the camels for transportation largely have the animals for the Tuareg of great importance. 
Abdelkader Regdagda has a travel agency with five jeeps - and a herd of camels, "With the camels you can live with, but not with a Car. If it breaks down and you do not have the spare part, it has no more charm. In winter I take the car for my travel agency. But in the summer I travel on camels in the desert, with my family or my friends. Then, the car stays in the garage. These are our holidays. "
On the old market where, carpets and jewelry of the Tuareg are sold, it goes to cosmopolitan. Mohamed solah ambles about in the traditional blue robe and a green Tuareg turban between the stands. On The nose has a Ray-Ban sunglasses, a modern mobile phone in his pocket with which he can shoot it. "There are Internet cafes in Tamanrasset. Everything you have in Europe in technology, to Communication equipment to TV stations, we also have in Tamanrasset. 2'05 I wear normal clothes Tuareg, but young people are a new generation ..... You wear different clothes, but they carry the tradition in the heart. "The tradition is hospitality, and is of course also for the young people who wear sportswear with baseball cap and jeans and the Tuareg turban. 
See also review Tamanrasset below In the theater of Tamanrasset they celebrate the music of the local stars Zoukani. This weekend, in the Islamic country are the Thursday and Friday, is also something going on in the desert. 
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Tamanrasset is also the starting point for tourists who set off into the desert on a motorcycle, bicycle or on foot, on camel or by jeep, in a kind of prehistoric open-air museum with bizarre rocks, high mountains and vast sand dunes. 80 km from Tamanrasset lies Assekrem at 2780 meters the highest city in the desert. At night temperatures drop to freezing temperatures, but the sunrises and sunsets are famous for their beauty. 
reddish glow of the surrounding mountain ranges of Tassiligebirges in light of the rising sun. Before the landscape immersed in a brilliant white, it looks as if mist rising from the valleys. Abdelkader Regdada leads tourists since the 80's through the desert: "You must as we eat, we show them how we live, how we travel, how we orient ourselves without a compass and no GPS, only on a mountain, with the colors of the sand. We live with the tourists, we show him our tradition. We set up tents and sleep outdoors, eat some soup, a dessert, there are dates, we make a proper tea do so, and people look at the stars, if we sit around the fire. " If dancing the Bedouin pop shots. The men swing their guns and shoot it in rhythm. But the people and their customs are as varied as the landscapes of the Algerian Sahara, two million square kilometers of desert. The gorges of El Kantara reddish glow near Biskra, the gateway to the desert near the Tunisian border. See also article Biskra below four sites in the Sahara of Algeria are excellent as a Unesco world cultural heritage, including the cave paintings at Tassili 
and the pyramid-shaped architecture of the nested houses in Ghardaia , 600 miles south of Algiers. See also the article below Ghardaia Djudj Brahim through his hometown: "The colors are very bright, and they radiate back the heat of the beige color to match the outside color of the sand But inside the houses, a blue color is used, the reduced brightness, and... can thus relax the soul. Blue, which we use to reduce even the flies and insects in the house. The walls are made of lime and sand and are supported with Dattelholz. This gives natural color, nothing is stained, everything is natural. " This architecture is almost 1000 years old. After seeing Ghardaia, lamented Le Corbusier, the ugliness of progress in Europe. Ricardo Bofill, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many other Pouillon Architects found in Ghardaia and find inspiration. 7'55 = 1'30 to cut] hundreds of miles further to the southeast is Taghit (read: Tarit), near the border with Morocco. Here are the most beautiful dunes in the Sahara, but they look like a sea of sand. See also the article below Taghit found here for the eighth time this year "dunes Marathon instead. Fabrice Humbert from Normandy was the fifth time it and celebrated New Year's Eve in the desert. "We fell in love with the people of this country, we know the Maghreb, Morocco and Tunisia were nowhere have we experienced such a warm welcome as in the. Algerians. And in the south is more friendly reception. Therefore, we would always go there, the landscapes are wonderful. " 
The region around Taghit (Tarit) is also for their music known. Alla is the singer who was born here. His music is in Switzerland even in the psychiatry to cure or calm the patient uses, the locals tell proud Info. Europeans have been kidnapped since 2003 and the Foreign Office in the wake of discouraged travel to Algeria, tourists hardly dare to Algeria, but still worth a visit. before, and today, the Algerian law, after a tourist only with a nationally recognized leader in the desert, strictly applied. The Foreign Office advises today general care (like everywhere), and recommends in particular, group tours with professional tour operators. 
© Rachid DEHAG ONAT The office of the Tourism Ministry, provide contacts, travel agencies and guides. If you have Algerian friends, you can drive safely to Algeria. Tour operators Abdelkader Regagda recommends tourists: "Even if he comes with his own jeep, is the tourist to take a leader, and he is in the Hoggar and in all of Algeria are welcome. We know the region well, and in addition, each agency satellite phones. I have my in the car. So you can call the authorities and is always safe "
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