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TOUR 7 : 4-WHEEL DRIVE and CAMEL RIDES

WESTERN GRAND ERG / GHARDIA and MZAB / SAOURA PALM-GROVES / OASIS

Maps

Arrival at Bechar airport

Day 1 : Reception at Bechar airport. Trip to Taghit, visit the most beautiful Saoura
palm-grove, at the foot of the Western Grand Erg. Climb the big dune to look at
the sandy sea. Evening and whole night in Taghit.

Day 2 : Trip to Beni Abbes, visit Father Charles de Foucauld's hermitage. Bathing in a
swimming pool fed by a warm spring. Splendid panorama of the Grand Erg and the
scorpion-shaped palm-grove. Evening and night in Beni Abbes.

Day 3 : From Beni Abbes to Kerzaz : strange ksar with covered streets. Bivouac at the Erg.

Day 4 : Kerzaz : spend the day in the village. Bivouac at the Western Erg with its beautiful dunes.

Day 5 : Taghouzi oasis : extraordinary villages built in the middle of the Erg . Bivouac on the Spot.

Day 6 : Start of camel ride in the Western Grand Erg passing through the Taghouzi villages : Gathof ….Takialt ..Bivouac.

Day 7 : Back to Taghouzi with camels . Bivouac.

Day 8 : Boukazine, Metarfa , Adrar ..passing through the Metarfa palm-grove . Visit the
gardens. Evening and night in Adrar.

Day 9 : Whole day in Adrar, Touat main town with its Sudanese architecture and numerous foggaras
(hydraulic and underground channel system built in the middle Ages )
Evening and night in Timimoun.

Day 10 : Timimoun, red oasis near the sebkha shore ( dried lake ) with its huge palm-grove
running along the Grand Erg and its middle-aged ksar.
Evening and night in Timimoun.

Day 11 : Trip from Timimoun to El Golea, huge oasis overlooking an old ruined ksar.
Visit of Father de Foucauld's grave.

Day 12 : Trip from El Golea to Ghardaia . Mzab main town with its exceptional and original spiral architecture. Evening and night at palm-grove.

Day 13 : Full day in Ghardaia : visit the town with its picturesque market place and shops.
Visit Beni Isguen's holy town with its traditional architecture and life style.
Evening and night at palm-grove.

Day 14 : Departure