algeria

• Fly 6/30 23:45 06:35+1 HKG to CDG
• 7/1 in Paris
• 7/2 07:30-08:45 CDG to ALG (2 hr 15 min)
• 7/2, 3, 4 in Algiers
• 7/4 18:55 arrive CDG 22:20
• Return 7/5 CDG to HKG 14:00 07:30+1
• desert oasis town to Timimoun (well set up for travellers, comfortable desert experience without tourist hordes of Morocco or Tunisia)
• Assekrem sunrise atop Tolkienesque atakor plateau
• March/April Fete du Tapis (in Ghardaia – carpet festival)
• go to Tamanraset's le tafsit (end April) celebration of Tuareg culture, camel races in Algeria's deep south
• Oran's festival national de la chanson du rai d'oran in August (world music)
• explore Hoggar mountains by 4wd in the Sahara
• millennia-old Saharan rock art rock art in Tassili N'ajjer (also see La vache qui pleure- the cow that cries, a carved masterpiece @ Tagharghart)
• dune skiing in grand erg oriental
• Roman city of Djemila
• casbah of Algiers (closer to Paris vs. Tamanrasset)
• stay
• Algiers: Hilton, or Sofitel