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Sunset casts a long shadow across the dirt road leading to Ait Bounou, an ancient kasbah, or fortified village, in the Moroccan Sahara. The town is quickly falling into ruin as the inhabitants flee the drying well and the advancement of the dunes expedited by a 16-year drought and the damming of the Draa River.

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Copyright: Ethan Welty
Image Size: 1000x667 / 362.5KB; www.weltyphotography.com; Africa Morocco Sahara Ait Bounou color image horizontal outdoors day evening sunset one person shadow figure village town desert North Africa palm trees fence Draa Valley
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Sunset casts a long shadow across the dirt road leading to Ait Bounou, an ancient kasbah, or fortified village, in the Moroccan Sahara. The town is quickly falling into ruin as the inhabitants flee the drying well and the advancement of the dunes expedited by a 16-year drought and the damming of the Draa River.