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  • A Berber guide watches over the sunset in the Erg Zehar dunes, Morocco.
  • Elhussein Sbiti leads an American client on a three-day camel trek to the remote dunes of Erg Zehar, near M'hamid in the Moroccan Sahara. Sbiti, like many berber nomads in the region, has found opportunity in the new tourism trade burgeoning since the settling of tensions between Morocco and neighboring Algeria.
  • El-Hussen Sbiti leads camels across the desert plateau outside the outpost town of M'hamid towards large dune areas along the Morocco - Algerian border.
  • Elhussein Sbiti leads camels through the dunes of Erg Zehar, in the Moroccan Sahara.
  • Desert guide El-Hussein Sbiti carries woody debris collected during the course of the day to build a fire for baking bread under the sand.
  • The hot sun grazes over sand patterns and the sparse grassy vegetation on the dunes of Erg Zehar, Morocco.
  • Intricate wind erosion patterns are highlighted by a dipping sun at the Dunes of Erg Zehar, Morocco.
  • An American tourist takes in the views off the sea of sand from the tallest dune in the Erg Zehar complex near M'hamid, Morocco.
  • Dunes of Erg Zehar, Morocco.
  • A bottle of water accidentally falls off as a camel stumbles to upright itself on the a trip to large dunes several days of hiking outside of M'hamid, Morocco.
  • A lone camel walks atop a dune at twilight in the Erg Zehar region near M'hamid, Morocco.
  • Berber camel guide El-Hussein Sbiti pours out mint tea in a tent during a trip to the Erg Zehar dunes outside M'Hamid, Morocco.
  • Stars pass over a lone tent among the dunes, Moroccan Sahara.
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