Palm trees, a river, a city ... Oasis. In every oasis, and found some pictures from one end to the other northern Sahara, occur practically the same scenes and types. Yet there are no two similar oasis. Not only is the scenery - mountains, dunes and gorges - is unique to each site, but the color of the soil, the architecture of houses, historical memories, irrigation methods, economic patterns, changes due to aircraft , route, hydrocarbons are contributing factors to define for each oasis own personality.
Bou Saada:
Sahara had doors, one of his favorite would certainly Bou Saada. Legendary tourist resort, nearest oasis of Algiers, this charming city was founded, it is said, in the sixteenth century by two saints from the Western Sahara is certainly an initiatory stop before the big shock of the desert. Prince Orientalists Nasreddine- Etienne Dinet (1861-1930) did not make a mistake; settled there, there converts to Islam and built most of his paintings now capital of Daira (subprefecture), the "oasis of happiness" has grown, particularly south and east. But we can navigate all the elements that make its former charm: its medina, its place, its many artisans, goldsmiths producing the "bou-Saadi," the famous traditional dagger, his twice-weekly market noisy, colorful, mosques and ... especially along the river that feeds the city, the ancient oasis ksar and the magnificent sunrise. Small miracle curiosity and freshness, a series of small waterfalls upstream of the river and the vestiges of colonial buildings reminiscent of the past existence of the mill Ferrero, whose name is engraved in our memories.
Biskra
Located at the foot of the Aures, including elleferme walking, facing the Deep South, the city of Biskra surprise the traveler at first sight. Instead dunes and rock landscapes expected, these are huge green expanses that are required in view. Giant palm, large irrigated areas, dams, the city has, since its foundation in the eleventh century by Zibans, fought to fertilize this piece of desert, hoping for a better life. Aujour of hui with its orchards, 100,000 palm trees that produce the queen of dates, Deglet Nour, Biskra is a thriving city, between modern city and Medina preserved. We will visit the market of course and artisans; we benefit from the freshness of the many parks; we will climb Fort Turkish for a magnificent view of the Old Town and the palm, and you can savor the fruit king, especially on the occasion of the Feast of the date, which is held every autumn in the capital of Zibans. 17 km south, a beautiful oasis gives you an appointment with history.
Sidi Uqba is indeed named after the mythical hero of the Arab conquest of the Maghreb, Uqbah Ibn Nafaâ, founder of the Tunisian city of Kairouan, who was killed in the famous battle Tehouda in 684 A mosque more ancient monument of Arab Algeria, was built on his modest tomb, still a place of pilgrimage
Laghouat
Founded by the Banu Hilal, a Berber tribe zénète, the oasis of Laghouat, 400 kilometers from Algiers, is now a major modern city. Head of wilaya, Laghouat held successive strata patient visitor - period Berber, Arabic, Turkish, French - which give way to the new town, built after 1962 if the first accounts (Ibn Khaldun evokes a village) back to the eleventh century, the city was a boom in the sixteenth century, when Hadj Aissa If became its patron saint and took shelter people in villages surrounding the interior of a fortified. A period sung especially in the poems of Ben Keriou champion of melhoun, popular even today rural poetry. Much later, the painter-writer Eugene Fromentin who gave him alive nickname "City of Gardens". In this film set in the open, Lakhdar Hamina turned part of his film Chronicle of the Years of Embers, Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1975.
El Oued :
the Oued Souf capital, is the heart of a stunning area, stuck in the middle of the Grand Erg Oriental. This depression located between Wadi Ghir and Tunisia was conquered by the obstinacy of the people to fetch water in the sand, sometimes up to 20 meters deep. There, the men created an original technique making the installation of palm trees possible, even without irrigation: at the bottom of craters in the sand, with a diameter of several meters, date palms which thus are grown roots are planted in the water ... El Oued is also called the city of Thousand Domes, name and look great especially if you climb the minaret of the mosque Salem: by way of terraces, traditional houses are covered with domes and cupolas, guaranteeing a certain freshness to interiors. After the market and artisans, it is the old city which offer its typical, the tiny openings as a windows houses, evoking propagated by the many visitors that received the Souf Image: Orientalists, poets, merchants, smugglers or ordinary travelers.
Source:Algerian National Tourist Office
Bou Saada: Sahara had doors, one of his favorite would certainly Bou Saada. Legendary tourist resort, nearest oasis of Algiers, this charming city was founded, it is said, in the sixteenth century by two saints from the Western Sahara is certainly an initiatory stop before the big shock of the desert. Prince Orientalists Nasreddine- Etienne Dinet (1861-1930) did not make a mistake; settled there, there converts to Islam and built most of his paintings now capital of Daira (subprefecture), the "oasis of happiness" has grown, particularly south and east. But we can navigate all the elements that make its former charm: its medina, its place, its many artisans, goldsmiths producing the "bou-Saadi," the famous traditional dagger, his twice-weekly market noisy, colorful, mosques and ... especially along the river that feeds the city, the ancient oasis ksar and the magnificent sunrise. Small miracle curiosity and freshness, a series of small waterfalls upstream of the river and the vestiges of colonial buildings reminiscent of the past existence of the mill Ferrero, whose name is engraved in our memories.
Biskra Located at the foot of the Aures, including elleferme walking, facing the Deep South, the city of Biskra surprise the traveler at first sight. Instead dunes and rock landscapes expected, these are huge green expanses that are required in view. Giant palm, large irrigated areas, dams, the city has, since its foundation in the eleventh century by Zibans, fought to fertilize this piece of desert, hoping for a better life. Aujour of hui with its orchards, 100,000 palm trees that produce the queen of dates, Deglet Nour, Biskra is a thriving city, between modern city and Medina preserved. We will visit the market of course and artisans; we benefit from the freshness of the many parks; we will climb Fort Turkish for a magnificent view of the Old Town and the palm, and you can savor the fruit king, especially on the occasion of the Feast of the date, which is held every autumn in the capital of Zibans. 17 km south, a beautiful oasis gives you an appointment with history.
Sidi Uqba is indeed named after the mythical hero of the Arab conquest of the Maghreb, Uqbah Ibn Nafaâ, founder of the Tunisian city of Kairouan, who was killed in the famous battle Tehouda in 684 A mosque more ancient monument of Arab Algeria, was built on his modest tomb, still a place of pilgrimage
Laghouat
El Oued :the Oued Souf capital, is the heart of a stunning area, stuck in the middle of the Grand Erg Oriental. This depression located between Wadi Ghir and Tunisia was conquered by the obstinacy of the people to fetch water in the sand, sometimes up to 20 meters deep. There, the men created an original technique making the installation of palm trees possible, even without irrigation: at the bottom of craters in the sand, with a diameter of several meters, date palms which thus are grown roots are planted in the water ... El Oued is also called the city of Thousand Domes, name and look great especially if you climb the minaret of the mosque Salem: by way of terraces, traditional houses are covered with domes and cupolas, guaranteeing a certain freshness to interiors. After the market and artisans, it is the old city which offer its typical, the tiny openings as a windows houses, evoking propagated by the many visitors that received the Souf Image: Orientalists, poets, merchants, smugglers or ordinary travelers.
Source:Algerian National Tourist Office
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