A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France . rained intorrents, but early the next morning, as westarted on our road to Batna, the cloudsbroke and brilliant sunshine poured down upon , which we intended to reach by luncheontime, lies 120 kilometers due south of the first part of our journey the road wasrather winding, lying due north, and runningthrough the very barest kind of country, and assum-ing, as we advanced southwards, more and more adesert-like appearance. The road we followed con-stantly rose in altitude until at Batna, where thecold
A trip through Italy, Sicily, Tunisia, Algeria and southern France . rained intorrents, but early the next morning, as westarted on our road to Batna, the cloudsbroke and brilliant sunshine poured down upon , which we intended to reach by luncheontime, lies 120 kilometers due south of the first part of our journey the road wasrather winding, lying due north, and runningthrough the very barest kind of country, and assum-ing, as we advanced southwards, more and more adesert-like appearance. The road we followed con-stantly rose in altitude until at Batna, where thecold was exceedingly unpleasant, we reached anelevation of 3,000 feet. We saw nothing of specialinterest during our run, nor is the scenery re-markable. The surface of the road is good theentire way, with the exception of occasional shortstretches. Perhaps the one feature worthy ofnotice is a large lake, called Sebkha ex Zemoul,which we passed 60 kilometers from lofty mountain ranges on both sides of theroad, with their summits covered with snow, [98]. GONSTANTINE TO EL KANTARA cause the wind that blows down from them to bevery cold. For the first 30 kilometers of the run out ofConstantine the country is fairly fertile, althoughabout halfway along this road we ran into adesert and proceeded along a gently winding roadfor some 50 kilometers. For the last 20 kilometers,the valley narrows down considerably and thesoil again becomes more fertile looking. Here werenewed our acquaintance with the camel, whichwe had not seen since we were at Beja. It was awelcome meeting, and gave us again the sensa-tion of being actually in the far East. Just before midday we arrived at the HoteldOrient, after a two hours and ten minutes found the hotel to be fairly good, and wereboth surprised and favorably impressed by itscleanly appearance. Indeed, for such an outland-ish location, it is very good. We engaged rooms, and, after transferring ourheavy luggage to relieve the car, we
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