Hotel Suisse Algiers

... on the 3rd floor. The room was very good but it had one flaw..The roof of the hotel lobby is up to 2nd floor and my room was just on it. So all I could view from my window is a huge grey roof in front of me. However, upon my request, the room is now changed to 11th floor so I have a better view now. From the official sources we learned that, it may not be possible for them to extend my visa from inside Algeria. I have to extend my visa before our planned ...

So after arriving here, we did not find much to do. Specially, the hotel where we are living, is almost 30 KM away from downtown and Taxi is something that you will not find easily here, so we are almost confined here in the evening. We usually go to the office and after return, have nothing to do except a short stroll on the cournice. The area as called some thing like "Flor-Du-Lu" and just by the sea. People says that this area is live till midnight in the summer, but the ...

The first part of our Egypt assignment is finished and now we are in Algeria. We arrived here via a Egyptair plane (Airbus A-320) and the flight took four hours. The plane journey was boring as there is almost no inflight entertainment for me.. ( I do not understand Arabic or French) and my seat was an isle one, so I had nothing to do. The check out and immegration at Algiers airport also went fine. We finally got in the car at 12:30 PM local time ...

... in our flash multistar hotel heading to the disco after spending the rest of our dinars on Algerian red wine...due to the fact that they are impossible to change back into foreign currency in Algeria. Apparently they forgot that its their own %$#ing currency. Off to the bottle....and my tourmates...stay tuned for more later. : )

Accueil à l'aéroport sans aucun panneau - dans un pays réputé pour ses pb de sécurité, ça commence bien... Passage par un bureau de passage au siège de la société. Rien à faire qu'attendre "l'escort" 2 heures de route au Sud d'Alger, sous escort: un business entretenu pour les sociétés internationales par les autorités locales sans doute. Des flics partout - jamais vu autant

... of pressed dry mud. It is easy to loose themselves along the narrow streets in the old parts of towns, looking for shopping of handicrafts, carpets and observing artisans working. There are beautiful and elegant old palaces with inner gardens, roofs made of carved citron and Moorish painted tiles. You can meet mosques, donkeys and mules, sheep, palm trees, women wearing black bourqas but also some nice young girls in western clothes. Typical of Morocco are medersas ...

... even climbed the top of a mountain to reach the Pere Foucault refuge where this missioner lived before being murdered by the locals. We slept under a million stars sky in our sleeping bag without tents and enjoyed the desert experience that is unique, I miss it so much that I want to repeat it again on the sand dunes of Djanet, the east part of Hoggar Tassili, the rocky red desert similar to the U.S. Monument Valley