Friday, April 27, 2018, Algiers
Known as “Alger la Blanche” for its white buildings gleaming on the Mediterranean, Algiers is a heady mix of ancient and modern. Today’s bustling city hugs the shore and boasts many gracious French accents from colonial days such as the Grand Poste and generous wide boulevards and gardens. District from the city’s pre-colonial Ottoman past rise from the coast upon the slopes of the hillside beyond. The city’s pinnacle of historic splendor, Agliers’ casbah, crowns this hilltop. It is North Africa through and through, a maze of stone warrens offering an ideal setting to pause for mint tea and kebabs. Peel back layers of history—French, African, Ottoman—in the spellbinding Mediterranean city of Algiers. Explore the Parisian-flavored modern city, a pre-colonial Ottoman past and the hilltop casbah. Algeria has 41 million people who 80% live in the three most populous cities along the Mediterranean Sea. 70% are less than 35 years old while 98% are Muslim. The unemploym