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Berbera oasis
In some of these oases, women preserve traditional techni-
ques for making date butter and natural cosmetics from local
plants. It’s a kind of wisdom that isn’t displayed, but passed
down by word of mouth, day by day. In Tanouchert or Azoueiga,
encounters are organised with nomad communities who share
desert stories under the khaïma, over steaming cups of tea and
bread baked in the sand.
Hospitality is part of the culture. The visitor is welcomed as a
guest, not as a customer. Meals are prepared over the fire,
silences are respected, and time passes at a different rhythm.
Terjit Valley
AUTHORS’ JOURNEYS
Between dunes
and rock,
Mauritania’s
oases are a
pause; there,
the desert falls
silent, and
life resumes
its ancestral
rhythm
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