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This is ALGERIA?! Algeria Mountains وأخيراً وصلت الجزائر - أكبر دولة في أفريقيا
Apr 14, 2025
In today's video I take a trip to Chrea, the beautiful hiking and National Park near Algiers!
It started very cold and foggy but thankfully the skies cleared for incredible views!
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After exploring some of the south in Kartaya and Timimun, I'm now back in Algiers, the capital
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and I'm just about to take a day trip to the beautiful mountains of Shreya
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Good morning everybody. Today I am on a day trip all the way to Shreya
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which is the national park just behind Lida up into the beautiful mountains
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so peaceful I wanted to take you can see how remote we are and hear how remote we are just
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by the chickens and the roosters and the complete silence my plan was actually to leave Algiers
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take a taxi to the telephoric and take the telephoric all the way to the top of the mountain
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but actually I arrived and they're closed so I'm taking the taxi all the way up
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I'm taking the taxi all the way to the top Alhamdulillah I can still take a taxi
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but yeah the teleferic apparently is closed for five months over winter
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so just a word of warning if you're coming here over the winter months
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from I think it's December, January, February, March, April the teleferic is closed
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but this is where we're heading to all the way to the top of the valley all the way to the top of the mountain
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the roads are super windy. The visibility up here is
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too small. We can barely see in front of us. Oh, it is so cold
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This scarf I take from Kaphandaya It's so cold, we're in the clouds
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I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to see I mean, probably not that much
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But actually, it's home to some really beautiful hiking paths It's also home to very special monkey species
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Which I doubt I'll see because it's so cloudy That right there what you see is the clouds I so high up over 1500 meters above sea level This is crazy The visibility is so bad I picked a bad day to come I think
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Usually you can see for a lot further than this, but this is the center
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I think I need to find somewhere. I cannot feel my heart
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Woah! I think I need to find somewhere warm to stay. I take a coffee and I try and pause wait for the visibility
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Even the dogs are running away because it's so cold. Maybe perhaps the sun will clear the area a little bit, inshallah
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yeah I need to go inside I cannot feel my hands so this area seems to be a little bit more
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protective from the wind what you'll find up here is a lot of families coming here
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hiking, spending the weekends and relaxing from the main cities there's still a lot of cloud cover here
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but I think perhaps inshallah I can see something not too much, when we drove past this a second ago
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you can see see some of the valley usually this right here
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would be an incredible viewpoint but sadly there's nothing here so Sharia National Park is it's
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actually one of the smaller national parks here in Algeria but what you can find here is a lot of
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tree species plant species and also the uh barberry macaque which is a like a short-tailed monkey
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and apparently it's very very common here haven't seen any just yet and it's actually because a lot
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of this national park is under disuse so it means the monkeys could return here without having the
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fear of humans in a few months i think probably next month this entire area will be covered in snow
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i am sadly just a little bit short of um time to be staying here until then inshallah i can come
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back i'm gonna go inside get something warm to warm me up and then inshallah maybe in 30 minutes
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the view might clear if you're coming here just be super prepared especially at this time of year
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It is so cold. My hands are bright pink. I managed to find some of the food
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I got a escalloc de pule, like a chicken sandwich. It's the only warm thing available
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The weather today is so volatile But for me I take that as a benefit because just after I finished my sandwich the entire valley is now in view Take a look at this
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wow wow wow the difference 10 minutes makes when you're this high into the mountains and it's a
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day like today i think the cloud will cover me again very shortly but the sun has come back out
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oh i think it just warmed my body by about five degrees
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look at these views the rolling green mountains go on for miles and miles and miles and just imagine in one month
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all of this, all of these trees will be covered in beautiful snow
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Wow. I can see why this place is so famous with locals
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I've actually never seen tourists come here though. Especially tourists from the UK, US, Europe
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I've never seen anybody come here. So if you are coming to Algeria then this has to be on your list of visits. It's just stunning
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You so cute You must be freezing This guy doesn want us to leave
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This is our taxi. Maybe he's hungry. I guess he might be
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when people continuously say they think Algeria
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is just sand and a desert this is what you can show them
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The just phenomenal rolling green mountains. Wow. Honestly, even I did not know that Algeria was this
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green and lush and beautiful and rich in this kind of landscape
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I honestly feel like I could be in the middle of Southeast Asia
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I am so close to crying because it's just so quiet and just stunning
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Asalaamu alaikum
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You also have a tram which goes around the city. Arhan is home to Rai Music
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What is Rai Music? This view extends so far out into the Mediterranean Sea
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Unobstructed view. I'm so mind blown by the beauty of Algeria
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