Biskra

Biskra

Biskra is the beginning of the Sahara Desert. It is nicknamed "The Queen of the Zibans", "The Door of the Desert" or "The Saharan Nice". Because of its geography, climate and natural resources, especially agriculture, Biskra has always been a crossroads between the cities of the north and the south. Many civilisations have passed through here, from the Romans to the Arabs and the French. Biskra's fauna is characterised by a great diversity of insects, such as the Sacred Scarab and the Yellow Broad-Tailed Scorpion. There are also amphibians like the frog, reptiles like the Horned Viper and the Egyptian Cobra. Various birds, including the Black Lark, mammals such as gazelles, small gerbils, foxes, Wild Boar, rabbits, hedgehogs, bats, myriapods, crustaceans such as the crab pond or waterbok. There are also many black and red spiders, some species of which hide in dead tree trunks.