The plain of Mitidja

Mitidja stretches in an arc about a hundred kilometers to the immediate outskirts of Algiers and climbs gently to the high wall of the Blida Atlas to the south. Throughout the nineteenth century, generations of settlers and Algerians have succeeded to develop this formerly marshy area and infested with malaria-carrying mosquitoes. The conquest was painful, often fatal, but Mitidja is now one of the most beautiful agricultural plains of the country. It has fertile soils and sufficient rainfall, conditions for many crops (potatoes, rice, vines ...). Citrus nevertheless remain the main production. In the 1990s, the social and economic life of the Mitidja plain was disrupted by violent actions by armed Islamists. Using the region as a strategic corridor between the mountainous scrubland and the capital, they forced the inhabitants into exile. Today, people have returned to their land and agricultural activity restarts.

09:55

Tlemcen

140 km southwest of Oran, at the foot of Jebel Terni, appears Tlemcen, sandwiched between the villages of El Eubbad east and west of Mansura. The city, located on a limestone ledge 800m above sea level, is backed south of Lalla Setti plateau rocky. It dominates the plains of Tafna and Safsaf.
Tlemcen high plain appears as a vast foothills spread fan at the base of the southern mountains. The waters sometimes descended in cascades of heights, the soil fertility, soil mixtures, the density of trees give it the name of Tlemcen imaged grove

09:53

Hassi Messaoud

Unlike other migratory birds, storks stop each night to feed and rest. This explains their presence near water points south of Hassi Messaoud in the Sahara. They do stop and find refuge in the oasis before continuing their long journey. They left Europe in August before the bad season to join the hot African countries. The juveniles remain there three years and reached sexual maturity, leaving Africa to join their region of origin. Adult storks, for their return to Europe every spring. The goal of this migration is essentially food because in the temperate latitudes, food is less abundant in winter. Every day, they can travel nearly 400 kilometers, using updrafts. These waders are protected in Europe but in the case of a migratory bird species conservation requires that they are also protected during their wintering in Africa. Protection of nature organizations, authorities and researchers from European and African countries work together particularly with the association SOS Stork following through satellite movements of storks.

09:51

Mascara

Mascara owes its name to the Islamic period. El mascara was the name of military encampments. Mascara is a city of Zenata tribes and mainly the home of Beni Rached (also known under the name of Hashem), a Zenata Berber tribe. By the tenth century, the Banu Ifren based Ifgan or Fekkan southwest of Mascara after destroying the city of Oran in the war against the Fatimids. The Maghraoua Mascara occupy the same time.
Ibn Khaldun stayed south of Mascara in the castle belonging to Ibn Selama. It is in these places that Ibn Khaldun starts writing his book El Mokadema (The Prolegomena).

09:48

Djanet

It rained on the dunes south of Djanet. The climate of the Sahara, the largest desert in the world, is highly variable from one region to another. While the northern fringe of the desert is subject to a regime of winter rainfall linked to atmospheric disturbances of the Mediterranean, the south knows a regime of summer rains associated with tropical depressions. Located between these two spheres of influence, the Central Sahara is very dry and can not receive rains of the year.

09:45

Constantine

One of the oldest cities in the world, is an important city in Mediterranean history. Its former name Cirta, capital of Numidia, 17 centuries since it bears the name of the emperor Constantine who rebuilt the first 313. Constantine is also nicknamed the "city of suspension bridges", "the old rock city", "city ulema ", as" city of eagles "or" city of malouf "Constantine version of the Arab-Andalusian music, it is the regional capital of the East.

09:43

Massive Aures

Northeast of Algeria, famous for the extreme beauty of its landscapes, forms long parallel ridges that separate the narrow and deep canyons.
Wadi El-Abdi and Abiod wadi take massive scarf and join near Biskra, before their waters go get lost in the sands of the Sahara.
Southern massif is dry and hot, and life took refuge in the valleys. Thus, in the gorge of Wadi El-Abiod, villages clinging to cliffs, while the vegetation irrigated by the waters of the river lining the canyon.
During the war of independence (1954-1962), this landlocked valley was an impregnable stronghold of the National Liberation Front (FLN) and its armed wing, the National Liberation Army (NLA) fighting against the French colonial army .
Today, many young people prefer to leave this isolated area to try their luck elsewhere, in the cities of Constantine and sometimes in Europe.
Unemployment hits Indeed 30% of Algerian youth, which therefore feeds on dreams of exile.

09:41