North Africa is a tourism hotspot! Few things are now as cliche when it comes to travelling as the sphinx and the pyramids of Giza in Egypt or the markets of Marrakesh. Most people have an aunt raving about her all-inclusive resort in Tunisia too. While those destinations are all really fun, their popularity also takes a toll and with the hordes of tourists going there with cheap flights linking North Africa to Europe comes the usual inconvenient of mass tourisms such as scams, price hikes and deterioration of the locals attitude towards foreigners.
Most of North Africa now has a massive tourism infrastructure, with all his flaws but Algeria is the one country of the region that sees the least tourists with the exception of, erm, Libya. You can get the same experiences you would get in the rest of North Africa, at a fraction of the price and be the only tourist around. You’ll find the locals still genuinely interested in foreigners and highly hospitable. If you speak a bit of French or Arabic, the languages of Algeria, you’ll make friends in no time. Don’t speak the language of Algeria? Most of the younger generation has now learned English. So if you have one place to go and experience North Africa, it should be Algeria.
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