Algeria: In Salah Oasis’s Giant Sand Dune

Unrelated Berber horseman and black woman moving along the foot of a giant sand dune in the Algerian oasis of In Salah.

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Algeria: Threatening Oasis Sand Dunes

This 1973 photo shows how high moving sand dunes had forced the inhabitants of parts of Algeria’s beautiful In Salah oasis to abandon their houses. In an effort to stabilize the dunes visible in the background, hedges had been planted into their sharp crests.

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