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Ketchaoua Mosque in the background. Lots of locals everywhere.

Our group had our first Home Hosted Lunch of the trip in his home. Everything was delicious. I enjoyed making a new friend.

Walking to our bus from our Home Hosted Lunch. I needed the time to work off that delicious lunch. Yes I took seconds too.

Waiting at the door to buy bread daily.

The National Museum of Antiquities and Islamic Art is the oldest museum in Algeria and Africa.

The museum opened in 1897. In 1911, it was described as having "the finest collection of the kind in Algeria.

In March 2019, during the 2019–20 Algerian protests, the museum was looted. According to the Algerian ministry of culture, "criminals" used the agitation from the street protests to penetrate the museum, break and steal some of the pieces exhibited, start fires in the administration offices, and destroy registry documents.

A few days later, the Algerian authorities announced that the artifacts stolen from the museum had been recovered, mainly swords and guns from the 1950s, and that the fire had actually taken place in an aisle that was under renovation.

An SUV in Algiers. A group just leaving work. They were happy to wave when I waved at them.

Notre Dame d' Africa, Our Lady of Africa, a Roman Catholic basilica is also known as Our Mother of Africa, is a Catholic title of the Blessed Virgin Mary associated with a statue of her as a Black woman, located in Algiers, Algeria.

The statue of Our Lady of Africa received a canonical coronation from Pope Pius IX in 1876, in the same ceremony wherein the church was elevated to the status of a minor basilica. A blue gown was added to the statue in 1886.

A view from the Basilica Our Lady of Africa one finds a lighted soccer field below near the Mediterranean.

Another view from above from the Our Lady of Africa.

Driving to Constantine we stop at the Archeology site of Djemila a small mountain village in Algeria, near the northern coast east of Algiers, where some of the best preserved Roman ruins in North Africa are found..

Djémila became a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its unique adaptation of Roman architecture to a mountain environment. Significant buildings in ancient site include a theatre, two fora, temples, basilicas, arches, streets, and houses.

Inside the Djemila Museum are found incredible mosaic tiles that have been saved and put on display. Many lifted from the ground and placed on the walls of the museum.

Map of the grounds that we will walk to see the ruins of this great site.

More tiles from the floors

The museum walls are lined with mosaics salvaged from the site, the covered court housing busts of the emperor Septimus Severus and his wife, Julia Domna.

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