This is the greatest danger we faced when we drove from Ouargla to El Oued in southern Algeria: bumping into a wild camel…!
By 1970, the anti-French sentiment left over from the Algerian War a decade earlier had largely faded away. But we were lucky to enjoy the calm then; as three years later, the first in a series of civil clashes began, which have largely prevented this part of Algeria from becoming the travel destination its beauty and history would otherwise merit.
