Since the start of the violence, Algeria is not much of a tourist destination. Very few travels still head south over the big routes through the Sahara. These routes were always the main travel attraction, although Algeria has a lot more to offer. Some of the finest Roman ruins in the world, old Arabic cities, good beaches. If things clear up a bit, you should definitely consider going there. A stay in the country will make it easy to understand why the French wanted to stay there so desperately.
Atlas Mountains
You can encounter a wide variety of landscapes in Algeria: desert, meadows, dunes, sahara, oasises, forests, oueds to name a few. There is also more than 750 Miles of coasts and beaches.
Tamanrasset
In the heart of the Great Saharan desert, Tamanrasset is an unexpected highlight: it offers beautiful mountain views with good hiking possibilities and stone age drawings all over.
Algiers' Casbah
The Casbah or old city forms the upper part of Algiers, replete with labyrinthine passageways and a 16th century walled fortress.
Algiers
Once one of the most romantic cities in Africa, encompassed by the legendary whitewashed Casbah, Algiers is now a major modernized city with all the metropolitan trappings.
Oran
The town was founded by Andalusian seamen in AD937and flourished under Zianid rule, developing strongtrading ties with Spain, which eventually led toSpanish occupation from 1509 to 1708 when Oran wascaptured by Ottoman forces. The Spanish recapturedthe city two years later but withdrew after anearthquake destroyed most of the city in 1790.
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