Safir Hotel Mazafran Zeralda

Well, there are not many developments since my last posting here. We are here on an assignment which allows us to enjoy a lot of free time. The major changes happened during this time that some other colleagues of us joined us here from Cairo and among them two of my Bangladeshi colleagues. So after a long time I could speak Bangla here :). Now a days we three go out every night and search restaurants for Rice cooked in traditional Bangla style. We even taught a ...

... The food staff are good but in my opinion they are not value for money. Yesterday we went to the downtown. Our office has provided us with a car to take us there. The driver parked the car at one end of the city and we visited the city on foot as much as we could in four hours. The city center is nice and full of people and activity. Algiers is a hilly city .. at one side it has the sea and on the other it has hills so the roads are elevated to different levels accordingly.

... one for sea food etc We went for the grills and the food war faboulous. After the dinnr, we went for a mini city trip in Amars' Fiat. We then went to the Icecream district to have some icecream. On the way to hotel Amar screamed "Look out" and we saw a Big wild boar run accross the road . By the way, Algiers is a hilly city with lots of Woods and Girdens and wild animals thrive there. We returned to the hotel at 12:00 AM and I slept instantly..

... 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

... some points only a 10 metre wide passage beneath 300 metre tall walls and Draa valley a more than 100 kilometres long belt of date palms, plus some few people, some mountains and a river and the red valley of Dades where the mountain closes up on both sides of you, before it opens again and you are in a world of green grass, red soil and big Kasbahs with high earth walls. The country is very nice with red brown earth, blue sky, green oasis and old castles and houses ...

... air in the deep south of this giant country, one of the biggest in Africa. From this strange town, in the dry and stone desert, with its houses surrounded by walls we started our tour in the desert by two 4x4 landrovers, our funny arab cooker and two tuareg drivers. The tour was very interesting: we visited canyons, stone valleys, met many pinnacles and red mountains, a lot of pre-historic paintings on the walls ...