Nine days walking with a camel caravan through the red dunes and palm-grove villages of the Gourara, around the oasis of Timimoun.
Around Timimoun, the dunes of the Grand Erg Occidental meet a string of oases watered by foggaras, the ancient underground channels of the Sahara. This méharée crosses this landscape on foot: high dunes, wells, abandoned forts and fortified ksour like Arelab, with nights in the sand.
You walk several hours a day in sand, but no experience of camel trekking is needed and the pace stays relaxed. It is a gentle introduction to caravan life, framed by two nights in a hotel in Timimoun.
Flight to Timimoun via Algiers, welcome and night at the hotel.
Morning in Timimoun, then drive to Tabelkoza to meet the camels and cameleers.
Walking over the dunes by the wadi Boubaker to the well of Qambou, then on past the well of Ounaïch to camp near Aïssa well.
Three days linking the palm grove of Oulad Aïach, the fortified ksar of Arelab and the dunes of Béni Aïssi.
Last walk past old forts to Semouta, then drive back to Timimoun.
Early transfer to Timimoun airport for your flight to Algiers.
A valid passport (6 months) and an Algerian visa or visa-on-arrival authorisation are required. We send the invitation documents you need once your booking is confirmed. See our practical information (checked 19 October 2026).
Timimoun
Fifteen days that use domestic flights to cover the whole country: Algiers, Timimoun, El Ménia, the M'zab, Timgad, Tiddis, Djemila, Oran, Tlemcen and Tipaza.
Timimoun
Our longest cultural journey: seventeen days from the Mediterranean to the great dunes, with Roman cities, Constantine, the Aurès, the M'zab, El Goléa and the Gourara oases of Timimoun.
Tassili n'Ajjer
Red dunes, natural arches and engraved canyons on the Libyan border: the Tadrart Rouge, the most photogenic corner of the Algerian Sahara.
Algiers
Four days in the white city: the Casbah's palaces, the bay from Notre-Dame d'Afrique and the Roman ruins of Tipaza by the sea.
The Sahara regions
Golden dunes rising behind a palm oasis, a night in a bivouac camp and the restored ksar of Taghit — the western Sahara at its most accessible.
Tassili n'Ajjer
Five days on foot and by 4x4 among the sandstone towers of the Tassili n'Ajjer and the prehistoric frescoes of Sefar, with SEFAR Aventure's Djanet team.
