Why visit the Algerian Sahara ?

The park of Tassili N’Ajjer (“plateau of the rivers” in the Touareg language) and the Tadrart Rouge region (“red mountains” because of the colour of the rock formations and the sand) are situated at a high altitude (an average of over 1200 meters) and are real geological, artistic and cultural treasures of the Sahara desert in southeastern Algeria (near Niger and Libya) which offer breathtaking landscapes and a window into humanity’s distant past.

These regions of the Tassili N’Ajjer and Tadrart Rouge are remote and very difficult to access – and therefore very few people have yet been able to visit them- with some sublime and grandiose lunar landscapes (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1982) and are considered to be the largest open-air museum of prehistoric art with over 15,000 paintings and engravings dating back more than 12,000 years!

VISIT THE SAHARA and its local partner offer you the possibility, from Djanet, to do hiking and trekking in an authentic way and always in the most natural way and in perfect respect and harmony with these spectacular landscapes and the Tuaregs these nomadic tribes of Berber origin, who are often dressed in blue and who are the true lords of the Sahara desert due to their history of resistance, their adaptation to the arid environment and their rich ancestral culture.