Hotel Chelia Batna
2, Allee Ben Boulaid Batna, Algeria
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Storm chasers
We woke up to the sound of geese outside our window. For the first time in Africa, we started with a shower in the morning. It isn't often a shower is so refreshing as the one this morning. Stepping out of the hotel, we realized that we had slept this night too under guard. Officers had kept watch over us during the night. An officer in plain clothes joined us for our morning in town. He walked up with us to the ruins, where buses with school children had arrived, ahead of the ...
Up on the highlands
Today we turned southwards, moving up to the highlands. The landscape changed again, driving through dried up river valleys and vast grass plateaus. The valleys offered a variety of trees and more of the red soil we had seen so much of. For the Skåne natives in our group, the plateaus offered view reminding of home. It was flat whichever direction we looked all the way to the horizon, where mountain chains towered up. Between us and the mountains, shepards watched ...
Annaba to Constantine
... After a couple of hours, we started to rise up from green pastures into rockier mountain territory towards the city at the cliff top. The few pictures we had seen of Constantine had failed to prepare us for just how spectacular it actually is. The two halves of the city cling on to either side of a massive gorge and are united by a number of spectacular bridges and the newly built cable car system. The roads wind up the mountainside through ...
