This 15 day programme ranges across AlgeriaFROMTHEMEDITERRANEANTOTHE northern SAHARA. Highlights include casbah of Algiers, THE Roman antiquities of Timgad, Djemila and Tipasa; THE M'Zab Valley, where THE walled town of Beni Isguen is normally closed TO foreigners; and El Oued, THE Saharan "town of a thousand domes" where we stay in a palace in THE desert.