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JLBG Says: Cistanche tubulosa is a close relative to the previous plant. It is not so beautiful but edible and is called "Tuaregs' asparagus". The stem must be collected...
JLBG Says: Cistanche violacea is a parasite plant that grows in the Hauts Plateaux and in several parts of the Sahara. It is close to the Orobanches. It has no chlorophyll...
JLBG Says: We stayed may be half an hour but we had to drive back to Algiers to take the ferry and go back home! We could not stay any longer. Before leaving the camp, we...
JLBG Says: Once they understood that we were harmless foreign visitors and not officers coming from the capital for some unknown (but always scary!) reason, they invited...
JLBG Says: Ouled Nail women are famous as belly dancers and because they have always been unveiled, as you can see on the photos. At first, they were surprised, the...
JLBG Says: There were only women and children in the camp and they were for sure surprised to see a group of 12 walking towards them! May be that if we had been all male...
JLBG Says: The fabric of the tents had wide red strips, which meant that they belonged to the Ouled Nail tribe. The Ouled Nail is a large tribe divided into several bands....
JLBG Says: Along the road, always at some distance, there appears from time to time a group of tents inhabited by nomads that live on the Hauts Plateaux . On one of our...
JLBG Says: Though the Hauts Plateaux has a scattered vegetation, camels happily make their living on it! The shape of the hump of a camel tells how is his condition. When...
JLBG Says: Stipa tenacissima also known as halfah grass, Needle grass, Esparto grass, Mexican feather grass is a grass of great ecological value (against desertification)...
JLBG Says: I was lucky to get closer to one part of the caravan. Some camels were loaded with what is called a mahmal or hawdaj, a kind of palanquin. It is a special...
JLBG Says: A little further, we spotted a small caravan on the horizon. They seemed to ride across the landscape and thus should cross the road. That was worth waiting to...
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The road from Ksar El Boukhari to Laghouat is straight for hours ! On both sides of the road, the landscape is almost the same. Flat !At first sight, there is...
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When you drive from Algiers to Tamanrasset, you encounter three zones. First, the Tell, a narrow strip of plains 100-200 km wide, stretching along the Mediterranean coast from the Moroccan border to...
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