Travel Guide Ain Sefra

It is in this city whose name means "yellow source" that Isabelle Eberhardt settled before dying in October 1904 in the rubble of his house during a flood of the oued. At the foot of the Jebel Mekhter in the massif of the Tatatouine Mountains, more than 1 000 m above sea level, Ain Sefra is an oasis surrounded by high red mountains converted into military post by the French who provide control over one of the gates of the Sahara. A sand dune line of about metres high the sharp contours. Poplars were planted at the beginning of the th century to contain the sand that into in the streets of the city a day of great wind. But it is from the Oued that Ain Sefra should be wary. The city regularly undergoes significant flooding; October 2007 flood had disfigured the centre and heavily damaged bridge and gateway.