Tag: Algeria

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.

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.

“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 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.