Tea in the Sahara, whether Summer or Winter (14 Days)

• The mountains of the Hoggar with their multifarious rock formations

• The Assekrem

• The hermitage of Father Charles de Foucauld

• Typical Touareg villages including Tazrouk (festivities here in the first week of August)

• The rock engraving of Dider

• The village of Ihrir and its “bathing pools”

• The mixture of travel by 4x4 and small walks

The Hoggar and its Villages

Day One: Paris – Tamanrasset: reception at the Tamanrasset airport by the local team, immediate transfer by 4x4 to the magnificent encampment.

Day Two: Discovery of the Tamanrasset, its markets, its town center and different districts, night at the encampment.

Day Three: Tamanrasset – Assekrem (2 804 m): Departure by 4x4 via the trail which rises into the heart of the mountains of Hoggar (around 80 km). This is a countryside of mineral deposits with weird shapes springing out from every angle, you will see there strange peaks and volcanoes; arrival at the chapel of Charles de Foucauld; night at the refuge, the sky as well as the rocks take on a strange hue both at sunset and sunrise.

Day Four: Descent upon Tamanrasset then towards the Tassili of the Hoggar, more to the south the countryside slips past: we will pass a wadi which is cut in half by the Tropic of Cancer arriving in a small village: Tit; first bivouac.

Day Five: Village after Touareg village: Erafek and its Zeriba, gardens and irrigation canals, Idèles and its red houses, we will arrive at Tazrouk, celebrated for its high holiday and festival at the beginning of the month of August, bivouac.

Day Six: Day of Relaxation in Tazrouk, visit to this verdant village, its gardens (innumerable fruit trees) and its cool, fresh atmosphere; bivouac.

Day Seven: We rejoin the trail crossing wadis, valleys and rocky hill outcrops, and we join for a while the main Tam-Djanet crossroads to arrive via a most beautiful path in the mountain range, at the Tazat mountain (2061m); bivouac.

The Tassili N’Ajjer

Day Eight: We arrive in the heart of the Tassili N’Ajjer passing by the small town of Fort Gardel to reach the rock engravings of Dider including the famous gazelle which we find depicted on the Algerian currency. At our bivouac site we may well cross paths with some nomad camps.

Day Nine: Departure across a lunar landscape or stones and rocks for the village of Ihrir, night in a typical local house (round stone house ): zeriba.

Days Ten and Eleven: Relaxation and visit to this astonishing village with its numerous gueltas, its cool, fresh atmosphere, and the possibility for a bathe in one of the gueltas (desert pools), stroll in a black stone canyon as far as Arlem (artistic rock paintings); night in a zeriba.

Day Twelve: We leave Ihrir for the canyon of laurels of Essendilène, stroll in the shadow of the rocks of the canyon as far as the guelta; bivouac at the foot of a sumptuous dune of the Erg Admer (infinite dunes).

Day Thirteen: We visit the sumptuous countryside of this region of Tassili: the arch of Tikoubaène and the peaks in the form of teeth of Timras; bivouac.

Day Fourteen: Arrival a Djanet, visit to this tranquil oasis, its old quarter, its market, bivouac in Tisras.

Day Fifteen: Departure for Algiers or Paris.

Recommended Period: year round

Guaranteed Departure: for a minimum of 2 people

Formalities: Passport and visa obligatory. See conditions

Program: The trip may entail some modifications in accordance with flight schedules or the discretion of those responsible for the area, due to security reasons.

No mandatory vaccinations.

You will find here some advice for preparing yourself well for your journey into the Sahara

• Reception by our local team at the Djanet airport and transfers

• Accomodation at a local inn, with all meals included from Day 1 to Day 8.

• Seven nights bivouacking

• Organization and complete logistics of the excursion (4x4…)

• English-speaking guide

• Meals in the desert prepared by the cook.

It does not include flights, required insurance, visa costs, personal extras and tips.

For flights we propose to offer you advice and to reserve your places for you, all you will have to do is settle up the account for your tickets with the issuing travel agency.

• Departing from all major cities in France or Europe, via Algiers with Air Algérie (around 620€)

• Departing from Orly Airport in Paris by charter with Aigle Azur every Sunday starting from October to May

(around 480€)

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