When we think of travel to the desert We usually picture dunes, oases, nights under the stars and long walks through landscapes unlike those at home. But there is an important question to consider before choosing dates: in summer, the heat can be extreme.
And we don't know this just from the thermometers. We've lived it.
With its easy access and safe environment, the Sahara is an ideal option for travel with teenagers or children seeking adventure. Its vast landscapes, light and closeness to nature make it perfect to share with family or friends, or to enjoy with a group of travellers with similar interests.
Our best routes through the Sahara and the great deserts of Africa
The desert is not an empty place. It is a territory of silence and infinite horizons where time seems to walk at another pace. In Viajes Tuareg we have spent more than 40 years exploring the Sahara with expert local guides, designing routes that combine expedition, culture and extraordinary landscapes.
Sahara is known for its extreme contrasts, and choosing when to go can make a difference.
The Sahara has its charm at any time of year, but some seasons are more welcoming for travellers. Spring and autumn are usually the best times to explore the world’s largest desert. Temperatures are milder in these months, allowing you to enjoy the landscape without the scorching summer heat or the intense cold of winter nights.
We began our professional journey organising desert trips and, 40 years later, we still consider the desert one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
For winter 2026, we suggest four ways to discover Algeria. Two focus on the Tadrart region and its labyrinths of rock and sand. A third explores the Sahara through the Grand Erg Occidental, while the fourth offers a more conventional journey through northern Algeria’s historic cities and monuments.
Traveling to the desert is always a unique experience, but with some additional information we can choose more easily the time of the year that best fits to what we expect from a journey through the Sahara desert.
We have been exploring Algeria by 4×4 for more than 40 years, and we still consider it one of the most beautiful places on the planet.
Winter offers ideal conditions for venturing into the desert. Milder temperatures let us travel without oppressive heat. At this time of year, the Sahara is at its best: cool nights beside a campfire beneath an immense sky, clearer light, and days when we can hike and stop to eat without sweltering.
From spring onwards, temperatures soar, exceeding 45 degrees when summer arrives.
The Algerian Desert is not a logical environment for what we think of as a Christmas holiday; there is no urban life, no street lights and no Three Kings parades. The traveler looking for desert at Christmas is because seeks a change of scene.
Ever since the 1980s, when we spent our first New Year in the Algerian Sahara, we have sought to share this experience with you.
Where to travel in January? A question we may ask ourselves if we have a few days off to travel in January And we don’t want to stay at home, tucked up under a blanket on the sofa.
January is better known for financial strain after Christmas spending than for long-haul travel. However, travel in January has many advantages.
“The desert is too vast to accommodate lies.”
This is how Brahim, our 63-year-old Tuareg guide, explained why things are different in the desert. Brahim was the human GPS who guided our expedition to Libya for a front-row view of the solar eclipse in 2006.
Our long history of Saharan travel began in the early 1980s, when we opened the agency. Those first 4×4 routes through Algeria and Morocco gradually expanded. Mauritania, Tunisia, Niger, Egypt and years after the Chad, Sudan and Libya completed our range of trips to the Sahara Desert.
Travel to Algeria: video by Dídac García entered in the Viajes Tuareg Video Competition.
A demonstration of how the Sahara Desert's landscape is constantly being shaped. Over time, wind-blown sand accumulates at the base of rock formations, gradually creating scenes of extraordinary, indescribable beauty: red dunes and an impressive canyon concealing fantastical shapes, sculpted stone and springs of crystal-clear water.
The desert is a spectacular place where extraordinary things happen. It captures our hearts and creates a longing to return that becomes part of our lives. Here, the mineral world dominates — something unfamiliar to us that evokes almost spiritual feelings of immensity, grandeur and solitude…
Desert trips in 2020: welcome to the vast emptiness.
The collection of paintings and engravings on rocks and walls in Tassili N’Ajjer is the world’s largest open-air collection of Neolithic art.
A World Heritage Site since 1982 and a Biosphere Reserve since 1986, its walls bear the traces of prehistoric civilizations which, almost by miracle, remain in the midst of a terribly hostile climate much of the year.
The Tadrart is the objective of our next trips to Algeria from October to March, with Red sand dunes and an impressive canyon, where fantastical landscapes conceal sculpted stone formations and springs of crystal-clear water.
Taking advantage of that this month of October we return to Algeria, we would like to show you some of the best Sahara photographs we have collected over the years.