We had already been to the Algerian Sahara, to Tamanrasset and Djanet, but this time we took our office staff with us - partly as a reward for all their hard work but also because I am interested in how groups function under pressure and as a team. So we went on a five day circuit, by camel and on foot, with a professional group consultant who helped us make sense of our fears - and joys - about being in such an exceptional landscape. We learned a lot about independence and mutual dependency, about sharing, about "the circle of support" - great fun, too!
We've just done our second trip to Algeria with Expert Algeria and this time went down into the south. It's not complicated to organise - and they're about the only agency that ever bothers to reply to emails. The Algerian Sahara in this region is very similar to the Akakus in Libya, just more vast and more remote.
It's an Algerian travel agency that runs tours to the Roman Algerian sites and the Algerian Sahara. It's the only agency that we found that speaks English as their first language.
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