Those nomads: don’t write, don’t have toilets, bring water from a source that is kilometres away, marry the one that their parents chose for them, they don’t go to any schools, they live in tents and they are the simplest, kindest and most honest people you can meet.
Kindness, simplicity and respect for other lives, belongings and human beings – something that people in big cities have forgotten about. Long, long time ago…
A mother with her daughter and grandson.
It’s time for some tea.
Nomads’ transport and ours right behind
welcome, marhaba!
In the house of the married couple.
Sahara style photo with the family in their tent. They are modern nomads – their mothers and siblings still live in tents and move. The married couple decided to settle down and build a little house, but they also have a tent ! :)
Finally I’ve learnt how to make a proper sahraouia melfa style. Seemed to be so simple and when I tried at home it wasn’t so easy :P
The house of the married couple. Fatma’s husband is over 20 years older and he was chosen by her parents.
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