Africa’s largest country lies just a short hop from Europe. The north, with its snow-flecked mountains and stunning coastline, is home to urbane and charismatic cities such as Algiers and Constantine, as well as some of the most magnificent Roman sites in existence including Timgad and Djemila, both vast, perfectly preserved Roman towns with barely another tourist in sight.
On the way to Timgad, we made a short stop at The mausoleum of Medracen (entrance 80 DZD). It is located 25 kilometers north of Batna in northeastern Algeria. It is a beautiful massive conical structure set on top of a 20-meter-high drum that is nearly 60 meters in diameter. An entrance...
After a long drive, we have reached Constantine, it was not easy to decide, where to park, but local police sent us to the huge busy bus station for an overnight. After that, we made some walk around the city during sunset and took our first local fast food dinner (2 meals and lemon juice...
In the afternoon, we took a curvy and narrow road through the hilly and forested landscape to reach the coast of the Gulf of Stora. There is a long sandy beach along the natural Mediterranean coastline near Skikda. It is still a bit abandoned area with very little touristic infrastructure...
We have changed some money (100 EUR / 19000 DZD) and bought a local sim card (4500 DZD / 40 GB data). On the highway to Annaba, we took our first diesel and paid fascinating 23 DZD / liter (0,12 EUR)! But Algerian driving conditions are a bit different from Tunisia, we met already quite...
We were waiting for our Algerian visa for 5 months, finally, we got it and we have realized, that there are no ferries available (except Marseille, France), so we took again ferry to Tunisia (from Civitavecchia, Italy – 285 EUR). After a bad experience with seating on GNV ferries, we...