Travel Guide El-Kantara

In the west of the Aurès, El-Kantara (El-Gantra) is served by the national road that goes down from Batna to Biskra by the west. The small oasis, made up of three villages (Gueraguer, Dahraouia, Bour El-Abbas) closes the gorges of Foum Essahra which would have been opened on the Sahara by a kick of Hercules. When one comes from the north, it is almost a shock to discover from the belvedere beyond El-Kantara a landscape announcing the near South that one had almost forgotten in the Djebel Belezma then the Djebel Metlili which protects in the northwest the small city and the red village. For the break, see the small Roman museum and the two inscriptions engraved by soldiers of Napoleon III assigned to the construction of the railroad. South of El-Kantara, at the level of the Gazelles farm, which is in fact a small station, a path allows to reach the Djebel Melah, the "salt mountain", a red peak which rises at 627 m above a rather desolate hamada.