Tassili - Algeria

Description: 

Tassili n'Ajjer corresponds to all trays and ergs that protect access, located in the extreme south-eastern Algeria. Covering an area of ​​114,000 square kilometers, it is bounded to the east and south by Libya and Niger and to the west by the Hoggar mountains. 

Composed of sandstone, layers of silt and sand solidified, Tassili Ajjer is from the seas that covered the entire largest desert in the world, over its entire surface stand strongly eroded sand dunes emerging rock formations, that evoke far the ruins of ancient cities. This lunar landscape was created by erosion. 

Tassili Ajjer and its region are fascinating because there are paintings, rock carvings dating from 6000 BC. BC. This strange lunar landscape of great geological interest, one of the most important groupings of prehistoric cave art in the world: hartebeest, cow crying, scenes of hunting, dancing, prayer ... 

In 1982, he was declared a World Heritage Site and Reserve man and biosphere in 1986 Animals endangered such as Barbary sheep and many species of gazelle found refuge. It is considered to date, as the largest open air museum in the world. 

The nearest tourist oasis is the oasis of Djanet