Travel Guide Tanezrouft

Warning. Due to the terrorist threat in Mali, this border area is now inaccessible to Algerians and tourists.The "desert of deserts" or the "country of thirst" is an immense stony plain bounded to the north-northeast by the Erg Chech, to the northwest by the Tidikelt, to the southwest by the Hoggar and the adrar of the Ifhoras and by the Djouf which is the Malian extension, devoid of water points from south-east Algeria on the edge of Mali. Here is the death of Tanit-Hassaran, the heroine of Atlantis from Pierre Benoit.The almost 700 km of road between Reggane and Bordj Bou Mokhtar on the Malian border is hopelessly isolated, while passing the heavy weight on tar, and free from any wells while at a more humid time, the region surrounded a lake as revealed by the recovered fossils. At the beginning of the 2 000 th century, the mummified remains of a caravan of some 1 500 camels and 1809 men lost in were found there. Captain Cortier was the first European to cross her camel back in 1913.A good 514 kilometres before the border crossing, 1920 km from Reggane, the Bidon V position owes its name, as some people like to repeat, to the five water cans left to the prisoner abandoned in this hell, but to the fifth tag introduced by the first motorized expedition conducted by the Estienne brothers in the early s.