Camels.
Camels drinking -- their only one for 6 months?
A great outcrop of potential astrobiological import.
Tremendous anticline exposure!
View from a stop in the road through the mountains.
Amazing ruins of a villiage that had to be moved after it was destroyed in a mudslide in the 1960's.
The view up-valley -- with prickly-pear.
Nabil tried to help Jani negotiate with these guys, but she still caved to his price. . .
The huge rains a few days before our trip started a mudflow through this riverbed that left a deposit of mud 50 cm thick.
I adore the crunching sound that I made while walking on this drying-up mud!
A beautiful canyon near the Algerian border.
At the date-tasting! The guy next to Gian Gabriele is the owner of the date plantation.
There were of order 24 different varieties of dates for us to try -- I got through about 16 or so.
They collect scorpions that they sell to help make antivenom. This is a really creepy video of them. That guy is pretty much totally insane. Pretty much.
Scorpions.
Donkey.
Date trees.
Our vehicle, on the way out!