In 2002, we travelled through the desert to the Erfound Oasis and walked through the kasbah that you can see in the second photo. In the first photo, our tour group are waiting for lunch to be served inside the kasbah.
Wikipedia says this about a kasbah: "
"A kasbah is a .... type of Islamic city or fortress ... It was a place for the local leader to live and (use) as a defense when the city was under attack. A kasbah has high walls which usually have no windows. Sometimes, they were built on the top of a hill to make them easier to defend... Having a kasbah built was a sign of wealth ..."
My main memory of that day is that the heat was stifling, yet we walked and walked, drinking lots of water from our indispensable bottles of water. Paul remembers it as having been at least 42 degrees Centigrade. In the desert, fortunately, the lack of humidity makes the heat bearable.
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