July 03, 2004

From the Landscape of Algeria - A beautiful collection of pictures of the cities and the villages of Algeria, and a historic and geographical preview of every Algerian province.
posted by f8xmulder 20 years ago
  • This just redirects to some webhosting site.
  • Nice one, f8x! Having seen too many movies about the French Foreign Legion when I was a kid, I pictured it as just desert with a shoreline. The mountains were pretty spectacular - mostly craggy and dramatic.
  • Looks like it's coming in ok for me. It's really hard to look at Algeria without thinking of all the widespread violence against foreigners/civilians that was publicized over the past ten years.
  • Not for me, dng.
  • Maybe it just doesn't like us filthy foreign types - I can't get into it at all.
  • Hey! I'm as filthy as you are.
  • This is fantastic -- thanks, f8x! I love the pictures, and I love the exotic Algerian place names: Azzefoun, Ouacif, Larbaa Nath lrahen, Tigzirt, Ain El-Hammam, Azaga, Draa El-Mizan, Boghni, Draa ben Khedda, Ougnoun...
  • languagehat can do the madison!
  • Oddly enough, when I found this, I was google searching for "pictures of european wives" for a DVD project I'm putting together. Honestly, it's not what you might think...
  • Thanks! My family hosted a foreign exchange student from Algeria for years and we visited him and his family in Tizi-Ouzou, above Ain-El-Hamman, in 1982. Fantastic find.
  • You know, I think I got that reversed. Ain-El-Hamman may be his village, while Tizi-Ouzo may be the cantonal capital.
  • It's a Rumsfeld! - it doesn't like us old Europeans - which is a shame as I'd like to look at it.
  • Thanks f8x! Lovely photos, and the crests are beautiful too. I desperately want to see this part of the world: Western Sahara, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Canary Islands... *sigh*