After spending the night in Matmata, I hired a guide to take me around to some of the Ksars of the region – these are typical Berber villages that are usually built on top of hills or mountains for easy defense and are made out of the local earth. However, these villages are slowly becoming abandoned in favour of newer and ‘modern’ settlements that are often built relatively close to the ‘old’ village – it was fortunate for me as I had these villages all to myself to wander and explore, but unfortunate because being abandoned, they are left alone to slowly fall into disrepair and may one day become just a pile of rocks. That being said, they are one of the most amazing things I have been fortunate enough to visit.
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- Fantastic roads and villages through the mountains
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- Just goes on in all directions
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- Yes, he siphoned it in
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- El-Hallouf from below
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- Inside the granary
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- Hedada with its 3 levels
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- Interiors were quite nice and elaborate
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- The houses are barely discernable from below
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- The vast expanse of the valley below
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- Interior textures
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- Spacious
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- One of the few built structures in Guermessa – with a delicate connecting bridge
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