2. _By public conveyance_ Algiers/Bou Saada 250 (Motor-bus takes some 10 hours.)[3] Stay Bou Saada — Bou Saada/Djelfa (bus) 112 (Stay the night at Djelfa, leave at six o’clock next morning in bus.) Reach Laghouat at nine-thirty a. m. 110 Stay Laghouat — Laghouat/Ghardaïa (bus) 200 Stay Ghardaïa — Ghardaïa/Touggourt 200 (The bus runs once a week [Nov. 1926]. Verify this.) Stay Touggourt — Touggourt/Biskra (train) 216 Stay Biskra — Biskra/Batna (train) 120 (If Timgad is to be visited a car must be hired at Batna for the 70 kilometers run to the ruins and back. One can sleep at Timgad or at Batna.) Timgad/Constantine (car and train) 190 Constantine/Bougie (bus service not regular) 259 Bougie/Michelet (No bus service direct. If Michelet is to be visited the train must be taken to El Kseur and thence to Tizi-Ouzou by bus; from Tizi-Ouzou bus to Michelet and from Michelet bus to Tizi-Ouzou and train to Algiers. If Michelet is to be omitted there is the train direct from Bougie to Algiers.)[4] Various alternative trips will be set out in the succeeding chapters where they seem opportune. The distances have been marked in kilometers as the guide-books and maps are all scaled in this way. For the information of those who are interested in miles, however, one hundred kilometers equals sixty-two miles. For all details regarding routes and motors the traveler is recommended to apply to Captain de Malglaive, at the Anglo-American Automobile Company at Mustapha Supérieur, who is always informed as to the state of the roads, accommodation, etc. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 1: It is advisable to ascertain the state of the road between Guerrera and Touggourt, as there is much sand in this part. On principle it is wiser to start just ahead of the motor-bus as the route is very desolate and there is no possible means of repairing serious breakdowns.] [Footnote 2: If time is short, Constantine, Bougie and the Kabyle can be omitted. From Timgad one can get to Sétif via Corneille. By leaving Biskra early one can do Biskra/Batna, see Timgad, and be at Sétif in one day—210 kilometers. From Sétif to Algiers the road is good and straight—300 kilometers.] [Footnote 3: If this bus journey is thought too excessive, there is no necessity to go to Bou Saada. The train can be taken direct to Djelfa in one day, and then next morning the bus lands one at Laghouat at nine thirty.]