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I hope so Chris, they didn't ask anything in the Brussels consulate. The "certificat d'hébergement" comes from Oran. I'll arrive with the ferry in Algiers and will take public transport, normally not going further south than Timimoun - El Golea. Maybe I can give it a try. But as said, no one asked anything about arrival, transport or plans. Let's see in 2 weeks...

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Ah, without a car it must be easier to slip in - especially if arriving on a ferry. Pull the hood down on your jelaba and hope for the best.

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There is a big and tall wall betwen Belgium and Poland.
In Poland we had to:
1. Send car documents
2. Send special aplications with all route and maps with off road piste
3. We could not get visa with hotel reservations
4. We could not get visa without guide

Now I see, we are second sort of people. We can feel disgusted entire with this process.

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I would not take it personally. I suspect it's all down to the diplomatic relationship a country has with Algeria - how easily Algerians can visit your country, politics, trade deals - and quite possibly the individual ambassador.
Assuming that the preferred flow is to get out of North Africa and into Europe, if Poland makes it difficult to do this then the Algerian consulate will be instructed to respond - just as has happened with us Brits.

You get the feeling that most factions of the Algerian state do not really encourage desert tourism anyway; since '2003' they don't need the hassle, don't have much infrastructure to support it and the ruling elite don't need the money for the moment. I also suspect that they think if they expose their populace to too much westernism they may get ideas like the Tunisians - and to keep a lid on that as they do in Morocco and Egypt takes a lot of effort. All my speculation of course.

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Hi B

you really do not have to feel this way - in december I had quite a long and painful procedere to follow to get finally my visa in Geneva after 4 weeks.
And it was just an "all-inclusive-tour"!!!
We met in the south also some polish tourists, they organised their tour with a local guide without any problems.

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Hi

At the beggining I would like to say that we have got visas in Poland in October without any problem. But when we were going to agerian border we have received message from agerian ambassy in Warsaw that we can have problem in passing algerian border. At the border there was not any problem to pass ant it took about 4 hours (as usual I suppose).

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If you have been in Djanet and Tadrart I think we had met there. We were traveling in 8 cars, so quite big group.
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Algeria - Visa....
hi pylon
nice to meet you here again

have you seen my pictures on Flickr: ursulazrich's Photostream

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You are right Chris. Everything is happening apart from us, especially politics.
That kind of tourists like us are not so important also. It is a small groups driving 4x4 travels or bike travels. It is other money in comparing to holiday resorts.

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I know this group. They have easier to get visas becouse they left the car in Tunisia and driving in Algeria in guide cars.
I think we are talkking about the same group.

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