Located on the southern coast of the Mediterranean, between Morocco and Libya, Algeria is slowly waking up to its obvious potential for tourism. It enjoys almost everything a country would dream of having when it comes to lure visitors: a wide coastline, mountains, waterfalls, gorges, high plateaus, varied desert landscapes with dunes, rock mountains and oases, a favourable climate, a rich historical and cultural heritage which reveals its Phoenician, Roman, Berber, Arab and Ottoman legacy.