Djanoub (the south), it is before and after Beni Abbes

Situated to 250 km of Béchar, on the axis road Béchar - Adrar, this city offers all necessary comforts to attract the tourist.

In addition to the comforts of stay, this locality possesses a wealth tourist exceptional also, you will be able to visit the museum and zoo of Beni Abbes, where are exposed ancient local potteries, the tips of arrows coming from an adjacent village of the reptiles (vipers to horns) and of the fragments of bone of elephants petrified. You will also see the animals of the region: Jackal, Vulture, Gazelle, Foxes, Raven, etc. You will be able to admire the marvellous botanical garden where several spaces are preserved jealously there and kept.

For your visits, the charming old K'sars situated in the middle of the palm grove constituted of about 8.000 palms will make you forget that you are in the 21st century, the architecture of the small alleys, the song of the birds on the palms, the local perfumes leaving houses constructed to basis of TOUB (efficient local product against the strong heats especially of summer), all it makes that the tourist leaves with a real satisfaction and have a desire even to remain there.
You will also have the possibility to visit the Hermitage of Charles de Foucault in 1901, situated close to the hotel.

In fifteen kilometres from Beni Abbes in the village of MARHOUMA, you are going to discover a real artistic wealth: of the carefully built rupestrian engravings on the rock and kept marvellously of the inclemencies. No far from there, on the same road, you have the possibility to discover the homes of tips of arrows, a real natural arsenal.

In Beni Abbes, you are going to discover the marvels of the handicraft of the streets edged with boutiques, offering various produced of local handicraft that reflects the ability of the local craftsmen.

Finally, you will have the opportunity to discover a new sport that is the ski on sand. Indeed slippery quickly and well on this surface, you try the discovery of all extents of steady made more practicable thanks to the ski.

The Ghar-diba ksar, in some meters on the sides of the cliff that overhang Beni Abbes, was protected from battlements forming a big circle surrounding the whole surface, he subsists more obvious traces of the walls of this ksar that are founded by the Bni Hciens. At the entry of the underground cave under the cliff at 3 meters of soil stands up a representational picture of intact signs that attests the presence of one of the tribes that marked this region.

The legend of the birth of the source of Beni Abbes tells that toward the 6th century of the hégire, Sidi Othmane come from Egypt camped with his mate meadows of the hill of Hmama during three days, he drove his stick on the floor and ordered to his friend to raise it only after his death.

His mate executed the wish of Sidi Othmane and withdrew the stick of the earth and to this instant water springs and since the Ain (faucet) of Beni Abbes flowed.
Situated to height of one of the important sand dunes of the big Western Erg, by its natural site, the density of its palm grove in the shape of scorpion, its water of a superior quality, Beni Abbes is very attractive.

The two Ksars that counts the city dominant the right strand of the valley of Guir wadi.
With the hermitage of the Foucault father, the museum, the old Ksar lost at the heart of the palm grove and with its Beni Abbes traditions presents a certain tourist interest.
Two hotels in the Large Erg commonly called in the time "Citroën hotel" constructs by the Citroën house for its relays in the west south, currently the famous world hotel “Rym” where took place several years ago movie    "Tea to the Sahara" of the Italian director Berlusconi Bertolucci.