Algeria and UNESCO
UNESCO Algeria
Algeria is now proud to have seven sites inscribed on
UNESCO’s World Heritage list,
all of which can be visited on tours operated by Expert Algeria:
Beni Hammad, Djemila, the M’Zab Valley,
the Tassili, Timgad, Tipasa
and the casbah of Algiers.
Algeria’s World Heritage Sites
Dr Peter Howard recently visited Algeria with Expert Algeria to take photos of Algeria’s World Heritage sites as part of an Africa-wide project to catalogue the continent’s UNESCO locations. You can see some of the photos Peter took here.
Ghardaia
“It was a Cubist painting, beautifully constructed: white and ocher rectangles, brushed with blue by the bright light, were piled on each other to form a
pyramid”, so Simone de Beauvoir described Ghardaia, where the hill was crowned by a “giant, extravagant and
beautiful mosque” that the French philosopher thought must have been “made by the hand of Picasso”.
Camus and Djemila
As Albert Camus pointed out, "It takes a long time to get to Djemila" but the
ancient city "seems the symbol of that lesson of love and patience which along
can lead us to the world’s beating heart. There is lies, among a few trees and
some dried grass, protected by all its mountains and stones from vulgar
admiration".
Algiers in the Independent
The British journalist Ed Vallance, who recently toured Algeria with Expert Algeria, has just had an article published on
Albert Camus
in the Algerian capital.
What makes the Algerian
Sahara so unique?
The rock arches, gueltas and immense dunes of the Tadrart occupy the deep south of Algeria; the kingdom of the M’Zab,
with the town of Ghardaia at its heart, lies hundreds of miles to the north… yet both belong to the great undiscovered
Algerian Sahara.
Sahara GardensSounds unlikely? Well, it’s true: Ali has been tending his garden in the furthest reaches of the Sahara – not far from Tamanrasset – for over thirty years.