EUROPE - ALGIERS

Morning flight to Algiers, which is picturesquely located on the hills. We will go to the monument of the martyrs with a beautiful view of the city and discover the painful history of the Algerian people in the local museum. Then visit the palatial complex Palais des Rais (Bastion23) from the 16th-19th centuries. Century Finally, we look at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Africa, built in the Byzantine style.

meal
Dinner included

BOUSSAADA - DJELFA

Djelfa the region includes Paleolithic remains and numerous rock engravings.
Doctor Reboul was the first to report to archaeologists at the beginning of the century, Roman ruins that were rare and unimportant, as regards the number and extent of the posts observed, but very rich in debris of bricks, pottery, fragments of pilasters and columns of country sandstone and written documents, one of which only read: donatus...Annarietana...and Zareris...Elius.
Zaretis attracted attention and we can see the Latin origin of the salt lakes, neighbors of Zahrez.
These ruins have the main interest of noting, with certainty, the southernmost point where the Roman power stopped.

Turkish presence
Algeria (Berberia 1515-1830.

The Turkish authority in the region was limited to levying the tax which depended on the Beylik of the center (TITTERI) whose chief town was MEDEA.

Algeria1830-1962.JPG French presence 1830-1962
Djelfa is a town located 300 km south of Algiers. The commune is limited to the north by Médéa, to the south by Laghouat, Ghardaïa and Ouargla, to the east by M'Sila, Biskra and El-oued, to the west by Tiaret.

It is the capital of the Ouled Nails, a confederation of nomadic and semi-nomadic tribes. Their red and black striped tents are easily recognizable in the Algerian highlands.

At an altitude of 1,140 m, it presents a large depression in the Ouled Nails mountains. Djelfa does not only belong to Max AUB, Roger GARAUDY, Fromentin or Étienne DINET through their universal works.

Founded in 1852: mixed municipality (civilian and military) in the form of a French military post, at the crossroads of strategic roads, the city was designed like a camp, with a geometric plan.
The city, which is surrounded by a fortified wall, is cut out by wide avenues at right angles.
An inscription placed above its front door indicates the date of 1852.
Djelfa will be built in forty days, in the months of November and December 1852 by the expeditionary column of General Yousouf, under the command of Marshal RANDON.

At the time, it was a vast main building, raised squarely above an enclosure of low walls. The house of the Bachaga des Ouled-Naïls was set up there with an Arab office. It was at the same time a house of command, a caravanserai and a fortress.

Eugène FROMENTIN exhibited in 1859, a superb painting of the post of Djelfa.

The creation of the town took place on February 20, 1861 by Napoleon III who signed the decree creating a center of 55 fires at a place called "DJELFA" and allocated a territory of 1,775 ha to it.

This area, which receives 300 mm of rain in an average year, is at the limit of cereal growing.
The settlers who held on had to adopt the technique of dry farming (plowing every year; sowing every other year). They were also able to engage in sheep farming.

meal
Dinner included

GHARDAIA – ZELFANA (71 km)

Day dedicated to well-being, relaxation and relaxation.
After breakfast, departure for Zelfana, a town where hot springs were discovered in the late 1940s. Rich in mineral salts (chloride and sodium), they come out of the ground at 45°C and are said to be good against nervous, respiratory, rheumatic and some skin diseases. You will have the opportunity to bathe in this thermal water, in a place that will be exclusively reserved for you during your bath. This will be the time to clear your head, to relax while enjoying the benefits of this water with therapeutic effects.

Lunch in the palm grove.

Return to the Hotel at the end of the afternoon.

OUARGLA – EUROPE

Breakfast at the Hotel.
Depending on the flight schedule, transfer with assistance to Ouargla airport. Flight to Europe via Algiers, on a regular Air Algérie flight