Ben Amera
Good to know
- Best time to go
- November to March, in the cool desert season
- Accessibility
- not-accessible
- Coordinates
- Open in maps
One of the largest monoliths on Earth, a granite dome rising over 400 metres from flat Saharan sands near the iron-ore railway. Visitors camp beneath it and its neighbour Ben Aicha, whose flanks bear sculptures carved for a millennium monument project.