Dryfall Bridge of Tiseketa satellite view

ALG-281. Dryfall Bridge of Tiseteka is located on a side canyon of In-Djerane Canyon (near the guelta of Tiseteka) on Tadrart region of the huge Tassili National Park in Illizi wilaya (province) of Algeria. The Flying buttress of the arch is estimated at 35 meters of height. Author rating ♥♥♥♥♥

Trip report by Stephen C. Jett, trip leader by the author. "We walked up to the head of the side canyon of which our campsite is an annex, and climbed up the rocks. Halfway-up, one looks down onto a guelta, that of Tiseteka, with a fair-sized pool. There is a short, sinuous slot canyon. Climbing higher, we passed a large round dry pothole, like an oubliette. We walked under a good-sized bridge spanning the drainage and saw a unique second bridge in front of the dryfall, a large flying-buttress type of span, the lower part of the free end being pierced by a second, vertical opening. In a major rainstorm, a big pothole comes down the canyon head, fills up a large plunge pool, flows through both the main bridge and the smaller one, continue under the next bridge and into another big, deep plunge pool, whence it lows on down drainage".