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Off-road car on a dark desert plain at sunset, low buildings on the horizon

Landscape · Morocco

Deserts and Oases (Morocco)

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Morocco has vast areas of impressive deserts and oases. Century-old kasbahs, the earth-built houses erected where water springs, provide a natural cooling system to protect against the heat.

Kasbah of mud-brick houses above a green river oasis, desert hills behindOld blue car under a tarpaulin in front of terracotta houses, a rug and laundry drying beside itView straight up through the courtyard of a mud-brick kasbah towards the bright skyRuined mud-brick kasbah with palm trees in the sandy desertTown of red mud-brick houses and a minaret among palm trees, hazy mountains behindStony desert plain with dry shrubs under a hazy skySmooth orange sand dunes under a pale skyLong green palm oasis in a valley between red cliffs, smoke rising in the distancePalm grove at the foot of red sandstone cliffs, a muddy river in front