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Ouadane.

We got up early the following morning to try to catch the sunrise over the old city and did a quick repeat of the tour from the prior evening. We then drove out 90 minutes further east into the Sahara to see the Richat Structure, a nearly perfectly circular geologic formation consisting of ridges and valleys some 40 kilometers in diameter. More spectacular from the air (or from space) but still a pretty interesting trip.

After a quick lunch break back in Ouadane, we continued cross country through the desert some two hours to the Oasis of Tanouchert where we spent the night. This is an isolated community in the middle of the sand dunes that’s somehow eking out an existence made possible by a couple of wells.

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Back to see the old city again in the morning; hoping for clearer conditions (Dec. 2024).

Morning in the old city (Dec. 2024).

Once again the abandoned mosque in the old city (Dec. 2024).

Strolling through the old city in the morning (Dec. 2024).

Ouadane (Dec. 2024).

Morning activity in Ouadane (Dec. 2024).

Shirley and Mohammad in Oudane (Dec. 2024).

Packing up back at the auberge (Dec. 2024).

Leaving Ouadane for the Richat Structure some 60 minutes away (Dec. 2024).

A small settlement a few kilometers before reaching the Richat Structure (Dec. 2024).

Mutton (Dec. 2024).

Trinket shopping (Dec. 2024).

Same place (Dec. 2024).

Pushing towards the Richat Structure (Dec. 2024).

The nothingness of the desert (Dec. 2024).

Mars-scape (Dec. 2024).

Hiking up to the top of the cone that sits in the middle of the circular Richat Structure which itself is some 40 miles in diameter (Dec. 2024).

A small settlement inside the Structure (Dec. 2024).

A closer look (Dec. 2024).

Shirley and Mohammad atop the cone at the center of the Richat Structure (Dec. 2024).

We met a babushka on top of the cone. She was selling some trinkets and rocks so we of course bought a few (Dec. 2024).

Driving along the moonscape of the Richat Structure, heading back to Ouadane (Dec. 2024).

We stopped for lunch right outside of Ouadane and this thing rolled by (Dec. 2024).

Heading out across the desert as we make our way from Ouadane to the Tanouchert Oasis (Dec. 2024).

Deyah dropped us off a few hundred meters from the Tanouchert Oasis. We hiked straight in along some dunes while he drove around the long way to avoid the dunes (Dec. 2024).