Worldwalk Trek, Part 4 -- North Africa

 

I passed dilapidated seaside-resort hotels, lonely old French cemeteries with large clumps of unmarked graves, padlocked cathedrals and other desecrated testimonials to a bitter colonial past, tiny villages of barefooted children crowded around muddy water wells, stooped women burdened with babies or firewood on their backs, dark-faced men with twitching eyes...I couldn't have picked a longer or more rugged way to cross northern Algeria than its coastline. -- Worldwalk book, pg. 297