ALGERIA

Between the sand and play sand peaks to the green peaks of the clouds affect the high-rise overlooking the blue waters of the Mediterranean north and purity of the dunes of the Sahara in the south, in what simplifies Palm generous Safadtha green in every direction to write ink Beauty and Tradition Alhmokh name and Algeria.

A vast area stretching between the beaches of the Mediterranean north and the deep Saharan south, the rich wealth of tourist destinations varied, the desired sea you have a couple about 1200 km from the beautiful beaches clean and the sun and air and weather Mediterranean moderate, and if you wish the desert wherein along the endless and relaxation blends where Human authenticity of traditions and heritage with sincerity and Vadth and welcome.

The mountains and highlands of Algeria wherein Dmitriy who wants to enjoy the beauty of nature or loving for hunting or camping in the woods or to skiers on the snow white in the highlands of the north or the soft yellow sand desert in the south.

And take Algeria strongly towards the development of its tourism sector, and upgrading facilities and attractions of interest the purposes of new tourism and open the door to the flow of domestic and international investment to the tourism sector to take advantage of tourism resources enormous abound in Algeria extended over an area of ​​two million kilometers approximately 2, which is characterized by possessing 1,200 km of coastline soft sand.

The work of those responsible for the tourism industry in Algeria on the development of new tourism products such as cultural tourism and recently launched a campaign to survey and monitor archaeological sites a private Romanian.Geography and history:

About Geography

Algeria is one of the countries of North Africa, Arab, located between Morocco and Tunisia at the intersection of latitude 25 degrees north and longitude 3 degrees east and extends coasts 1200 km north on the Mediterranean, and has a common land border with Libya and Tunisia in the east and with Morocco in the west and south borders with of Mauritania, Mali, Niger, Algeria is the second largest area of ​​South Africa after Sudan.

Made up land of Algeria to the coastal plain north along the Mediterranean and in parallel chains of the Atlas Mountains the hill and the Atlas Mountains, the desert towards the south and the highest elevations are the top Tahat and a height of 3303 meters above sea level, then the mountain tribes and the Aures and the children of Neil and Zab and the valleys are its waters in the winter dry up to become a fertile pastures, and the rest of the land of Algeria is a vast desert to accommodate most of the surface.

History

Algeria is known civilization across the ages, have found the remains and the effects of human activity dating back to about 7000 years BC. M and clipped several civilizations in history, Phoenician Kelhoudarh handled by the Amazigh population of Algeria at the time.

Algeria came in the seventh century BC. M for the rule of Carthage and the Romans occupied year 42 BC. M in 682 m began to squeeze the Arab-Islamic and subject to the rule of the Fatimids and built Abdallowad and Hafsids In the year 1518 subject to the rule of the Ottomans and then occupied by the French in 1830, where successive resistance Algerians them that the revolution broke out Algeria in the first of November 1954 and the Algerians won their independence from France in 1962. And Algeria joined in the same year of the League of Arab States and the United Nations.

Basic information:

Capital: Algiers

Area: 2,000,381 thousand and 741 sq km

Population: 32.8 million (2003 m), with an estimated population density of 112 people in the square km.

The most important towns: Tlemcen and Oran, and Constantine, and rocked and Tamanrasset, Tizi Ouzou and Bejaia, Skikda and Annaba.

Official Language: Arabic, used languages ​​English and French.

National Day: the first of November (the 1954 revolution).

Independence: July 5, 1962.

Administrative divisions: 48 states are: Adrar and advances and Alogot mother residuum, Batna, Bejaia, Biskra, Bashar, Blida, Bouira and Tamanrasset Tebessa and Tlemcen, Tiaret and Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, Djelfa and Jijel, Setif and happy, Skikda and Sidi Bel Abbes, Annaba and Guelma, Constantine, Medea, Mostaganem and gas and the camp, Warkala, Oran, eggs and Alesi Tower Buar Irij, Boumerdes, El Tarf, Tindouf and Tzmseltand valley Khanshalah market Ahras and Tipaza and Mila and appointed oleander and the ostrich and appointed Temouchent and Ghardaia, Relizane.

Time: GMT +1

International phone code: 00 213

Currency: Algerian dinar equal to 100 cm.

Always state: Saturday to Wednesday from 8 am to 12 pm and 14-18 pm. On Thursday, it is 8 to 12.30 pm.Code: AG

Visa: Algeria to apply the principle of reciprocity.

Customs laws: allowed cigarettes, beverages and supplies for personal use.

Airports: Algeria, Houari Boumediene Airport and Otojd international airports in each of Ouargla, Annaba, Constantine, Oran and Ghardaia, and there are domestic airports in most cities of Algeria.

Ports: Algiers, Oran and Annaba, Bejaia, Skikda and Mostaganem.

Electricity: 127 and 220 volts.

Natural resources: petroleum, gas, iron, zinc, phosphate and uranium.

Crops: wheat, barley, fruits, olives, dates, grapes and citrus.

Industries: refining, petrochemical and food industries, mining, light and medium industries and manufacturing industries.

Exports: oil, gas and phosphate.

Climate: The climate of Algeria in mild summer is hot and dry in the winter and rainy Vdavi.

Tourism in Algeria:

Remains surprising pinned on the spaces of the scene Algerian nor postpone the scene other than the heat of the encounter with human Algeria's indigenous traditions decorated with a smile and friendly welcome you find there in the south, where the desert outstretched in front of you Biskunha, and where Tasark adventure Alarataad and motivate you to experience the exciting to sleep on the sand soft under the stars night shine in the sky net.

And enrich your experience of human encounter with the desert Tuareg people are naturally talented and the most important features of the severity of their welcome guest and celebrate him and his feelings of warm, friendly and smiling.

The Palm is the bride-rise oasis, desert and find the deer breeding in nature reserves where you can see a caribou ears Allowasotain also ..

In the north Tzlk shapes and colors, chrome, fruit trees, citrus and pine trees on the sea coast .. And fishing available in the north where his fans find plenty of snipers and sniping, and the bird in its various forms Vtaatcather rapidly in the north to migrate seasonally and return, such as storks and ostriches and quails.

Future Plans:

Focused on new steps followed by the Algerian government over the past few years to adopt a strategy of sustainable tourism development until 2010 as well as the establishment of a specialized body to support the tourism investment and to link the expansion of tourism National Agency for Tourism Development identified in the recent 20 sites in tourism development in the framework of the plan referred to.

And extend those sites on the area of ​​one thousand hectares.The plan to increase the accommodation capacity of 50 thousand beds at a cost of 75 billion dinars (about one billion U.S. dollars) as provided for increasing the rate of incoming tourist movement up to 2.1 million foreign tourists and 980 thousand tourists a national non-resident immigrants.

The plan is to create jobs for one hundred thousand employees to fill 25 thousand direct jobs and 75 thousand indirectly. Plan and expects to increase revenues from tourism revenues to reach nearly $ 6.1 billion.

, The creation of the National Council for Tourism in Algeria would cover all aspects of growth and development of the tourism industry in the light of representation for all institutions and agencies directly related to the development and promotion of tourism activities and improve the quality of tourism services and upgrade the image of tourism in Algeria abroad and contribute to the rehabilitation of national heritage and cultural Algerian and contribute to in improving the standard of living.

Algeria protect a:

Founded by the Phoenicians in the third century BC. M. And ruled the Romans and named Oakozyom, after the fall of the Empire, the Romanian delegation to many Arabs who came out to escape from Andalusia after the demise of Arab rule by 1492.And seized by the Ottomans under the leadership of Kheireddine Barbarossa in 1511 and in the eighteenth century took the Dey of Algiers for Turkey to be occupied by the French in 1830 for the graduation of the Algerian revolution in 1962.

The city of Algeria, its two old Islamic and modern European, known as the old Casbah mosques, narrow streets and the many and castle built in the sixteenth century.

The trachea is an important historic architectural heritage and registered by the UNESCO World Heritage site in 1992, and features gardens and Astronomical Observatory and the National Museum and National Library and the University of Algeria, which was founded in 1909. In many of the Kasbah of palaces and houses, luxury-class Arab and Islamic mosques and prominent Grand Mosque and the Mosque of Ketchaoua.

Another feature of the city of Algeria Riad opening a shopping mall and cultural features markets modern, restaurants, cinema halls and the Museum of the Mujahideen, which reflects the contents of the historical stages known to Algeria, where the village of employers industries and crafts of traditional folk and interspersed with green spaces beautiful, and this complex (the museum) built under the ground.

Another feature of Algeria Martyr Monument, which oversees the port, which is based on the shape of palm trees 92 meters in length and around the three divisions of basalt stands for the Renaissance of Algeria in the three fields, industrial, agricultural and cultural rights.

And Algiers is the country's largest city and home to about 5.3 million people and is located on the Mediterranean coast in the middle of the coastal road linking Tunisia in the east of Morocco, one of the most beautiful cities in the Mediterranean in the south, and spread neighborhoods and buildings, over a range of hills overlooking the sea, and spread on the slopes In the piedmont and flat plain beneath the palm groves and lemon trees, oranges and olives.

Beach Sidi Fredj: A tourist complex built on an area that was a conduit for the occupation of France, and is now Amer recreational and tourist facilities, hotels, restaurants and places of entertainment and water sports also includes a scene of open and private facilities for treatment using natural sea water.

Tipaza: a site that has effects similar Phoenician, Roman, and are now places of tourist services evolving from luxury hotels, tourist villages and restaurants. And places of attractions in the capital city of the Cherchell tourism.

Blida:

A city in northern Algeria on the slopes of the Atlas Mountains to the south of the plain of Mitidja, an administrative center, commercial, and known for its agriculture.

It is surrounded by gardens and orange groves, olive and almond trees and fields of wheat, barley, tobacco, and various types of fruit and is famous for its production of flowers, extracts, and the heights of the famous law on snow skiing facilities during winter.

Hoggar and Tassili:

These areas are natural museums and bulletins UNESCO World Heritage List. The Hoggar, where peaks rise to 3000 meters, a major destination for tourists seeking fun adventure between the smooth and rocky gorges, where the fees and ancient inscriptions that suggest the way of life for people of that region about 5000 years ago.

The purposes of the tourist region of the annual festival witnessed by Hoggar, a tradition that highlights the heritage and culture of the desert to the activities of an economic and commercial interaction between the neighboring desert countries such as Niger and Mali.

And became the festival attracts tourists wishing to experience the atmosphere full of activities for cultural, artistic, folkloric and reviews of camels, and there in the Hoggar Alosekam a corridor is one of the most beautiful tourist destinations especially for the enjoyment of the unique scene there for sunrise and sunset.

Ghardaia:

The city of Ghardaia after the cities where sympathy and Malika founded Ibaadis century atheist century AD, in the year 1053 AD and away from the Algerian capital, 600 km to the south.

Like all the villages in the valley gutter surrounded by stately Malika and Ghardaia wall above each and every one of them a mosque dominated and oversees the spiritual life and social development in the city, as we find houses built around the mosque hierarchically so as to provide every home of freedom and takes into account the engineered human neighbor and public goods to the population, were built with materials local.

Have been included within the municipality Ghardaia historical monuments of the world by UNESCO in 1982. The most important of these features the great mosque, which crowned by a minaret with 114 degree rise of the number of sur the Koran, and the market square, the old so-called vast middle of the old palace, and the big market, which is also called Victory Square, where is the auction, which was packed with traffic on Friday, and the Mosque of Sheikh uncle Said and his tomb.

Featuring Ghardaia Bhrvha especially traditional fabric of carpets, mattresses, carpets made from wool, rugs and high headrests with Berber symbols and shapes inspired by the local environment and the traditional family clothing, in addition to the craft of the copper industry of jewelry and dishes.

The distribution of 100 thousand palm trees on an area not exceeding 590 km square containing 24 categories is just incredible Deglet Noor and Otkabbalh, and among the crops that have been successful in the region, peanuts, cotton and strawberries.

The climate of Ghardaia Java because of its location deep in the desert, and vary the temperature between day and night and between winter and summer range, winter between one degree and 25 In the summer, between 18 and 48 degrees, occurs in the winter the temperatures drop below zero, especially at night.

Bejaia:

Located on the Mediterranean coast and the coast overlooking the Bay in a scene that combines gorgeous green forests and sea water and thriving tourism services for the cities where the swimming pools, sea beaches and sand clean and restaurants offering delicious meals of seafood and fish, the Mediterranean.

It is the most important ports in the Algerian oil reservoirs are in the pipeline coming from the wells of Hassi Messaoud in the far south, including for export to the world. It is also a city of commercial and industrial environment in which traditional crafts as well as modern industries, the most important petrochemical and chemical products such as medicines, detergents and pesticides.

Camden is also the Romans ruled the Mediterranean after beating then taken by the Vandals of Carthage as their capital in the fifth century. Punish the Berber rule Valospan The French and the Ottomans to independence. Among the most prominent features of the Whole, which was built in the sixteenth century castle built by the Spaniards in 1545 AD. Industry coupled with her candles were exported as raw material, therefore, took its name in French Candles (Bougie), as well as candles Boggiot combustion engines used in cars.

Tlemcen:

Center of Tlemcen and located at a distance of 600 km to the west of Algiers, which is adjacent to the border of Morocco to the south-west of Oran, is one of the most important centers of History and Archaeology in Algeria, especially its architectural heritage the Arab-Muslim, have settled the Andalusian Arabs after their departure from Andalusia in 1292.

And built in the region of Tlemcen, the ancient city known as the AAgadir and modern name Tavrzat in the eighth century AD and rebuilt the Almohad Sultan Ibn Yasin and named Tagrart.

Tlemcen takes to the slopes of the mountains of the south Atlantic which is rich in gardens and vineyards, oases, and famous for furniture, carpets, leather, textiles, woolen and silk, cotton and extraction of vegetable oils and fertilizers. Has flourished days stationed their position of religious and a large number of historic mosques and magnificent Kgama great mosque and the shrine of Sidi Belhassen good governor, Mr. Boumediene.

In Tlemcen the purposes of the important tourist facilities contain a natural beauty and quality services, including the station Higr pool water treatment and hot mineral bath Boughrara, and the Falls of the Orat its water fresh and the several oases of green and fertile plains.

Jijel:

Commercial port is founded by the Phoenicians and punished by both the Romans and Spaniards and Turks. And is characterized by its mountains and caves Jijel amazing and around the thick forests are Bkhaddrtha with the blue waters of the sea fascinating spectacle.

Rich in archaeological landmarks Jijel many made it a destination for thousands of tourists who come to it where they find the facilities and tourist services and unique features Corniche sea views overlooking the very magnificence, as well as the garden where there are great varieties of rare animals and birds.

Annaba:

Is the fourth largest city of Algeria, and most ports on the Mediterranean and is located to the far north-east of the country, a historic city founded by the Phoenicians and the Romans ruled and named it Hepourigius and seized Alphendl of 431.

In the seventh century became Annaba under Arab rule of the Islamic city and an important trading port is active and then seized by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century and the French in 1832 that, like other cities of Algeria won its independence in 1962.

The main features of Annaba, the Grand Mosque and the Cathedral of St. Augustine, a philosopher, was born and raised in Algeria, more than 1500 years and has developed the Ministry of Tourism Algerian tourism program to identify him and which is referred to that of the saint 18 million followers, especially in the United States where they have built more than 500 churches.

Heights and Annaba are currently no tourist facilities include a resort for recreation and exercise. The Annaba today's commercial center and an important industrial, as there are complex remarkable for iron and steel plants to liquefy natural gas, oil refining and chemicals, food packaging and the production of cork, cement, and serve the railway network is an important center for the export of iron and phosphate and citrus fruits.

Constantine:

Is the third largest city in Algeria, away from the capital, 400 km and is located on a high of about 534 meters above sea level and then descend towards the middle and near the mountains of the Atlantic, and Constantine, a very old city has recently celebrated its 2,500 th anniversary of its founding by the Carthaginians and then ruled the Romans.In the reign of King Domino in which the revolution of 313, were confronted by King Constantine the Great and subsequent destruction of a large terrifying to build, and since then, you know his name and, before that under the rule of Alnomidiin, known as Sarta and is famous for Constantine Bjsurha outstanding and on farms surrounding the thriving industry machinery especially tractors, agricultural and textile industries the skin.

The highlight of Constantine as a center of science and learning the Quran and graduated scholars and thinkers senior Muslim, including Abdel-Hamid Ben Badis founder of the Association of Muslim Scholars and the rich city monuments of historical and religious, including the Great Mosque, dating back to the thirteenth century and the tomb of Mr. Rashid and the palace of the Bey Ahmed, who is an excellent example Arab and Islamic architecture and the bathroom, Mr. Mir hot water.

The center of the city itself is a unique tourist destination, besides being a meeting place for all roads and the center of activity and movement of the city.

It is referred to in Constantine as one of the centers of Andalusian music is also referred to the distinction of her kitchen meals traditional appetite as well as their products of traditional crafts Kalnhaceat embroidery and gold thread, a art known as Alguendorh you can watch craftsmen and they are in the shops in the markets of the old city.

Oran:

Or Bahia how much pleasure to people that call it the second largest city in Algeria, the capital of the west of Algeria, which is located on the Mediterranean coast in the far west of the country, and its harbor of the most famous ports of the Mediterranean, the center is commercial and linked within the country and Tlemcen, and Morocco line of the railway and the thriving industries such aspetrochemicals, iron and steel.

 Oran, a very old city, but its inception dates back to the traders generally and Andalusian Moors in the tenth century (937 AD).Occupied by the Spaniards in 1509 who were expelled by the Ottomans in 1792, to be occupied by the French, 1838 until the independence of Algeria.

 And the city of Oran, combine the two models, one of modern architecture at the hands of the French and the second is the Spanish Andalusian style, surrounded by vineyards, and the weather is nice and there is living in an atmosphere of calm, the streets are filled with movement and activity.

 And sightseeing district of Darb inspired the modern city and the field of the first of November and the Mosque of Pasha built in 1796 and there on the shore platforms like the picnic the afternoon and evening, and in the Oran region are Ain Turk tourism where there are hotels, where the compound of Andalusia tourist overlooking the bay on the Mediterranean. And the tower of Santa Cruz, founded by the Spaniards.

 The neighboring cities of Oran city of Mostaganem coastal, which is a mixture of Andalusian heritage, Turkish, and is famous for this city by being a source for the arts, music, culture, and the outdoor theater, and in the Oran region no city camp Amazigh old, the capital of Prince Abdul Kader Algerian who belonged to the tribes of Hqran has led the resistance against the French of the year 1832 to year 1849 in this region abound springs and mineral baths with the Romanian assets.Other cities:

Batna: a city with beautiful nature is located in the foothills of the mountains of Aures, a center known as the state and quality of its products agricultural, you know Bmusnoatha traditional craftsmanship.

Setif located to the north-east of Algeria, about 300 km from the capital, a city built during the French colonial city on the ruins of the old Stephen ROMANIAN. And successive civilizations have left traces its ruling and evidence is still fresh, the most important Romanian beautiful city which is one of the most beautiful old Romanian counterparts in the Mediterranean basin and classified by the UNESCO World Heritage site in 1967.

Setif and commercial center and the mining of phosphate and is characterized by local traditional textiles and the famous agricultural market, and to that known as the city of Setif saint Sidi good.

Sidi Bel Abbes: Located in west-central Algeria Micra on the river, surrounded by vineyards and orchards, farms and fields of wheat are important agricultural market and the agricultural industries such as equipment and sophisticated electronics.

Skikda: a port on the Gulf of Stora of the Mediterranean Sea and is located in northeastern Algeria and Constantine made products have evolved in which industries oil refining and liquefaction of natural gas and petrochemicals.

Advantage of Skikda beautiful scenery a private beach Stora Beach'm M'hidi Beach Fil also has many parks and gardens and know the quality of its production of strawberry fruit, a Kaadid Algerian cities of old were built on the site dates back to the era of Carthage, and flourished later as a port trading in the Roman era.

Tebessa: sits in the arms of the mountains of the North Atlantic east of Algiers, and sightseeing the ancient Roman arch of Caracalla and the Cathedral built in the fourth century and the walls of temples and Byzantine restored. And Tebessa is taken by the Romanian Tfsta Emperor Augustus camp for his troops year 25 BC. M.

Touggourt: desert city a tourist destination, known in Algeria as well as to contain the oil wells and oases of the vast agricultural land planted with palm trees.

Timgad: the city earlier, a list of highlights for tourists, after visiting her greatness, organize and harmonize economic and cultural life during the Roman period. Built in 100 AD Emperor Trajan in order to address the attacks of the people of the Aures Mountains, will be built where currently the most important festivals and international forums of a cultural tourism.

Alsawrh area: includes many oases oasis of Beni Abbas, which is its capital and an oasis Bashar, Taghit, Adrar, which is one of the finest oases in the desert and the best space for comfort and beauty and where there are old mansions.

Timimoun: capital Alkorarh called oases because of the red color of the red mostly on its development, and is one of the most beautiful oasis in the desert.

Area Almzab: region is characterized by originality and character unique architecture of its kind which is a combination of beauty and simplicity derived from the pattern of living, can not the tourist that means M'zab without visiting the brown wire of the Holy City of M'zab, which founded in 1050 AD It is known Psogaha traditional walls that close before the prayer dinner. The region is also an important center of traditional industries, including copper and weaving in particular the qualifications allowed her to classified World Heritage by UNESCO.

Biskra region, the Bride of Alziban: famous for its date palm groves that produce the finest dates in the world, Deglet Noor addition to important tourist attractions including the bathroom of the righteous.

Valley - the pearl of the desert: as it is called the Dome of the city of a thousand relative to the architectural style for this desert region.

Ouargla: The desert of the oldest cities, founded in the tenth century atheist Alabadion. It was the capital of many kingdoms latest Idrisids in the seventeenth century, also known as Ibn Khaldun gate Sudan as the conduit for those coming from the Sudan, and has become today a pole important thanks to the yield resulting from the activities of oil to the area of ​​Hassi Messaoud, which is one of the most important oil fields in Algeria, corner of Brown embracing known destination of thousands of pilgrims Africans.

National Parks Tourism:

National said the barn: 78000 hectares, located north of Algeria alignment with the Mediterranean Sea and includes 3 beaches, reserves and 3 contain 50 species of birds and other species of animals.

Dragged the fold: 518 hectares, located in the heart of the Atlas hill, about 50 km from Algiers, where the snow settle for three months (December / December and January and February).

Fold of cedar forests pagan limit: 616.3 hectares, about 3 km from the city of pagan limit, and is located to the edge of a series Ononharis At the heart of the Atlas of the hill.

Tassili fold: include archaeological and archaeological nature, characterized by various inscriptions and rock drawings, which are classified as World Heritage site.

A range of national parks (such as Balzmt) (600 hectares, Batna, Taza (300 hectares) and Jijel and Korarh (100 hectares). Hangars and a national capital.

Riad al-Fath: composed of multiple areas, such as place of Shaheed (martyr code) and a forest Alerkad.

Amusement park and entertainment Ben Aknoun: 304 hectares, includes the plant and animal species, including local and African countries.

Benam amusement park is located north-west of Algiers, and occupies an area of ​​500 hectares and the multi-sport activities...