Gooooood morning Tlemcen! This morning we hopped on a 3 hour morning drive back to Oran, where we dropped off our bags at the hotel and began our tour of the city with the Fort of Santa Cruz: The fort has changed hands as often as Algeria as changed...
After a morning in the off-the-grid deserts of Timimoun yesterday, we headed to the airport to catch our 5:10pm flight to Oran, the second biggest city of Algeria. Despite a nerve-racking turbulent flight for nearly an hour in a rainstorm, we managed to still...
After breakfast in Taghit, at 9am we hopped on our mini-van heading to Timimoun while being accompanied by a police escort the entire time. It was 9 hours of this outside: We briefly stopped to look at unguarded fossils of sea life from…the Cambria age? ...
After 1 day in the City of Bridges and driving back 5 hours to Algiers’ domestical terminal, we caught the 10pm Air Algiers flight to Bechar, close to the Moroccan border. Curiously they’ll check (but won’t stamp) your passports even when flying a...
Constantine, aka the “City of Bridges” due to the numerous bridges connecting the mountains the city is built on (and thus the only way to reach it is by a bridge!), is truly a dramatic sight to behold. And I’m not talking about the 2005 Keanu...
Our original plan was to head to the Roman ruins of Djemila today, but we would be informed last night that the military had recently closed it off for unknown reasons. Never deterred, however, we instead upgraded last minute to something even bigger and better:...
Onwards to another monsoon! After being approved for a last minute Algerian visa only yesterday, I spent the last 24 hours scrambling for flights out of NYC. Thanks to Evan Danek’s advice, I quickly cashed in 47,500 British Airways Avios miles (that were going...
