Adrar. The water channels
Adrar's main attraction must be the strange organisation of the town. In the middle there is a meaningless big square,- it cannot be used to anything beyong parades that hardly ever take place anyway. And out here in Sahara, big open squares are the worst thing there is, nowhere to hide from the sun.
There are easy to find traces of the old system of underground water channels. These traverse the entire oasis, and shall in the times before modern systems were implemented, have been as long as 2,000 km in this area alone.
GOING NEXT
800 km south: MALI (Borj Mokhtar)
500 km east: In Salah
250 km northeast: Timimoun
250 km northwest: Kerzaz
Adrar is a province of southwestern Algeria. It is the second-largest province in the country, with an area of 443,782 km2. As of 2004 its population is estimated at 341,800.
Adrar is also the name of a city in the province of Adrar.
Adrar's main attraction must be the strange organisation of the town. In the middle there is a meaningless big square,- it cannot be used to anything beyong parades that hardly ever take place anyway. And out here in Sahara, big open squares are the worst thing there is, nowhere to hide from the sun.
There are easy to find traces of the old system of underground water channels. These traverse the entire oasis, and shall in the times before modern systems were implemented, have been as long as 2,000 km in this area alone.
GOING NEXT
800 km south: MALI (Borj Mokhtar)
500 km east: In Salah
250 km northeast: Timimoun
250 km northwest: Kerzaz
Adrar is a province of southwestern Algeria. It is the second-largest province in the country, with an area of 443,782 km2. As of 2004 its population is estimated at 341,800.
Adrar is also the name of a city in the province of Adrar.
