Best Algerian Algiers Casbah, Tassili n'Ajjer, Djemila, Timgad Roman Sahara and Algeria Deep Maghreb Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Algeria travel | Africa destinations Best Algerian Algiers Casbah, Tassili n'Ajjer, Djemila, Timgad Roman Sahara and Algeria Deep Maghreb Heritage Tour Destinations (UNESCO 1980, 1982, 1992) TL;DR Algeria is the largest country on the African continent at 2,381,741 square kilometres, with the Sahara filling roughly 80 percent of that area, and it carries seven UNESCO World Heritage sites that together cover the prehistoric, Phoenician, Roman, Berber, and Ottoman layers of the Maghreb. I planned my route around four anchors. The Casbah of Algiers, inscribed in 1992, is the labyrinth of Ottoman houses, mosques, and stepped lanes that climbs the hill above the bay of the capital. Djemila and Timgad, both inscribed in 1982, are the two best-preserved Roman provincial cities in North Africa, with a triumphal arch, theatre, and forum at each one. Tassili n'Ajjer, the 72,000 square kilometre sandstone plateau in the deep south-east near Djanet, was inscribed i...