Here you will find details of many of the towns and regions in the Sahara that Expert Algeria visits, including such gems as the M’Zab Valley, the Tassili and Tamanrasset.

Distinguished by its towering dunes of sand, its sheer-sided canyons and its beguiling “forests of rock”, Algeria’s mountainous Tassili region is an open-air treasure-trove of more than 15,000 pre-historic rock carvings and cave paintings.

Our tour of Algeria’s virgin Sahara starts in the desert town of Tamanrasset, deep in the Hoggar region, and ends in the Tassili, bordering Niger to the south. A beguiling array of landscapes awaits discovery as we traverse these remote Saharan expanses on foot and by jeep: towering dunes of sand, sheer-sided canyons and dense forests of rock.

This circuit, beginning and finishing in Djanet, has been devised to embrace the Tassili’s captivating range of Saharan landscapes, from its’s lofty dunes and sculptured rocks to its life-giving gueltas lined with pink rose-bays. We will navigate the Tassili by camel, spending six nights under the Saharan stars.

Sounds unlikely? Well, it’s true: the Palace in the Desert outside El Oued boasts a beautiful English garden, and in the nearby sand dunes there are fields of potatoes. Meanwhile Ali has been tending his garden in the furthest reaches of the Sahara – not far from Tamanrasset – for over thirty years. Read more here here.