Travel Guide Melika

The "Queen" stands on the other side of the M'Zab Oued. You have to follow his enclosure, in fact high houses that act as a protective bulwark, to arrive at the cemetery. Near the water castle dominating the city and recognizing it by far, the tombs of Sidi Daikh and his family, whose "iduden", species of doigts mud finger pointed to the sky, are moving in simplicity. Sheikh Sidi Daikh, a malikite Muslim, converted to the ibadisme after a thought which showed him three cemeteries: the first, burning, was that of the Jews; the second, from where complaints and moans escaped, was reserved for malékites, while the third, ibadite, seemed calm. Following a quarrel with the head of Melika, he hid at home for more than ten years. The people of the country who appreciated this pious man and built up a beautiful tomb to remedy the contempt he had suffered with his family.