Sofitel Alger Algiers

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 ...

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 ...

... road from Airport to the hotel is beautiful. We noticed one particular thing of Algerian Driving.. The drivers are really careful and always eady to give way to other cars and padestrians. After staying at Cairo for three months, it's a strange thing for us.. (The drivers of Cairo are Crazy.. and do not care to give way to anybody and always are at speed more then 100KM) . The hotel is a small one just by the mediterrain sea. We got a nice little ...

... 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 ...