点评:Tassili N'Ajjer is a large desert area in the southeastern corner of Algeria covering an area of over 72,000 km2 designated as National Park and Biosphere Reserve. This national park is famous for the very numerous cave paintings and drawings that can be seen here, still very well preserved. While the natural spectacles represented by dunes, rock formations and breathtaking scenery are the interesting part of this national park, the vegetation is very limited and the wildlife that a tourist can observe is practically absent. Although aware of this point, during our visit, which was carried out in winter, we also tried to make an effort to observe some animals, but in fact we could only see lines of footprints on the sand of very small animals. Every time we tried to follow them we never got any result. In five days the only mammals we managed to see, at night, were a couple of North African gerbils (Dipodillus campestris). Things did not go any better with reptiles, having seen and photographed only Schmidt's spiny-tailed lizard (Uromastyx alfredschmidti), and Olivier's sand lizard (Mesalina olivieri), nor with birds having been able to observe only white-crowned wheatear (Oenanthe leucopyga) and brown-necked raven (Corvus ruficollis). On the other hand we visited the Tardart area, Tiska area and the Erg d'Amer in a spectacular and unforgettable tour where nature, although not animated, provided us with unlimited photo opportunities offering us spectacular and always different scenarios. In particular, the cave paintings and drawings, observed in dozens of places, have given us a clear and complete vision of the wild fauna that lived there until a few thousand years ago and of the animals raised by Neolithic man who was facing at that time an unstoppable process of desertification. In paintings and drawings, giraffes and elephants are particularly numerous, even in large-scale drawings, while other wild animals such as rhinoceroses, lions, antelopes and ostrich are rarer. It is necessary to rely on one of the agencies managed by those magnificent people who are the Tuaregs, which organize from Djanet tours (sleeping in tent) in the desert on 4WD vehicles, to enjoy these wonders moving with safety and tranquility in this arid and spectacular part of Algeria.
翻译:塔西里阿杰尔是阿尔及利亚东南角的一片大沙漠,面积超过 72,000 平方公里,被指定为国家公园和生物圈保护区。这个国家公园以这里可以看到的大量洞穴壁画和绘画而闻名,这些壁画和绘画至今仍保存完好。虽然沙丘、岩层和令人叹为观止的风景等自然景观是这个国家公园的有趣之处,但植被非常有限,游客可以观察到的野生动物几乎为零。尽管意识到了这一点,但在我们冬季的访问期间,我们也试图观察一些动物,但实际上我们只能在沙滩上看到非常小的动物留下的几行脚印。每次我们试图跟踪它们时,都一无所获。在五天的时间里,我们在晚上唯一能看到的哺乳动物是几只北非沙鼠 (Dipodillus campestris)。爬行动物的情况也好不到哪里去,我们只看到并拍到了施氏棘尾蜥蜴 (Uromastyx alfredschmidti) 和奥利维尔沙蜥 (Mesalina olivieri),鸟类也只观察到了白冠麦翁 (Oenanthe leucopyga) 和棕颈渡鸦 (Corvus ruficollis)。另一方面,我们参观了塔尔达特 (Tardart) 地区、蒂斯卡 (Tiska) 地区和阿梅尔 (Erg d'Amer),这是一次壮观而难忘的旅行,大自然虽然没有生机,却为我们提供了无限的拍照机会,为我们呈现了壮观而又不同的场景。特别是在数十个地方观察到的洞穴壁画和绘画,让我们清晰而完整地了解了几千年前生活在那里的野生动物群,以及当时正面临着不可阻挡的沙漠化过程的新石器时代人类饲养的动物。在绘画和素描中,长颈鹿和大象尤其多,甚至在大型素描中也是如此,而其他野生动物,如犀牛、狮子、羚羊和鸵鸟则较少见。必须依靠由图阿雷格人管理的一家机构,这些机构组织从贾奈特出发的沙漠之旅(睡在帐篷里),乘坐四轮驱动车,在阿尔及利亚这片干旱而壮观的地区安全而宁静地欣赏这些奇观。