Heart of the Sahara
IN ALGERIA’S TASSILI N'AJJER NATIONAL PARK
Read time 4 mins
Travelling in the Sahara Desert on the trail of John Michael, a family friend who crossed the Sahara Desert in the late 1970s – the glory days of Saharan overland travel.
What I found in Southern Algeria left me in a state of open-mouthed wonder: 72,000 square kilometers of sand and rock, colossal dune ranges, sandstone pinnacles, and otherworldly ‘rock forests’ – with barely another tourist in sight.
After a few days, I ran out of superlatives and was content to wander under the luminous African skies, imagining that we had this vast tract of the planet to ourselves.
