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Walata, the Red Pearl of the Wonderful Arabesques
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length: 10 mins.
Camel hire for visiting the surrounding area
Oued and dunes
French forts
Rock paintings at Touecritt
Stone-age village at El Jeleuat
Makraoughat
Orange dunes in the Walata region
Dunes at Turab Mama
Rock paintings at Touecritt
Women painting a Tarba
The tea ritual
Traditional doorway
Traditional ceilingl
Traditional wedding bed
Arts and crafts shop
Tea is a symbol of welcome
The streets are narrow and the squares, small
In winter, the jetty becomes a drinking trough for the nomads' camels
Outer door of the Manuscript Library
The tarhas (graffito patterns) are made by the women to decorate their courtyards
Touching up a recently finished graffito
A street in Walata
Detail of one of the rooms in the museum
The walls of the houses tend to have benches built onto them
Door to the main room
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View from a roof terrace
Walata's historic mosque
Upper floor of a traditional houser
Interior courtyard
Livestock exit
Traditionally, the houses had an upper floor on which windows opened to the exterior
The rooms often have perforated columns decorated with reliefs to increase the feeling of spaciousness
The graffito decorations are always present in the courtyards
This old map shows the kingdom of GUALATA
The decoration in the living room has Mediterranean reminiscences
The outer doors, with their Sahelian characters, protect the family's privacy
Setting up the 'tin ahmar'
Children in a courtyard
The steps are very steep
Buying arts and crafts
Traditional games
Dance of the hyena hunt
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