Our next stop, immediately after Tinghir, was the village of Ouaklim. Ouaklim is a commune in the Ouarzazate province of the Souss Massa Drag administrative region in Morocco. At the time of the 2004 census, the commune had a total population of 8,902 people living in 1249 households. Nowadays, however, most of the population has moved away due to the lack of water!

Outside the abandoned village..

Here the place is stunning. All the families that live here have a piece of terrain, one by one, equally distributed. I saw a lot of locals; lots of women that work like men and children that help their parents working in the camp. Theirs is a different lifestyle from ours, totally - the reality is that children are also people that work to maintain their families.

Here people won't pay you too much heed, but pay attention to what you're shooting with your camera, especially women! Our guide Saiid explained the locals' lifestyle to us, and all of us were fascinated by the story of this rural village. He seemed like a quiet guy, but this was just a first impression. He climbed up to the top of a 15-meter tall palm! Totally crazy!

Our guide..

Here you can see the locals plant grass, maybe some rice, and work with donkeys. They have some water pools, to maintain the grass and keep it alive when the draught months come.

deep green in a climate that green cant survive..

So, before I said that the village was largely abandoned, and that’s correct. But inside of the village, there is a family that produces carpets. I could not believe it at first, but it's the truth. It's a family that has a carpet business and ships them worldwide. Unfortunately, I can’t remember their name. They weren’t too happy because of their difficult lifestyle - I saw this in their faces. But I had the opportunity to speak with the most humble people I've ever met in this world.

Their house is awesome - it's a carpet factory, literally. They have all sizes and all kinds of materials like camel skin, baby camel skin, linen, cloth, and others...

The carpets cost around 100 dollars for medium size, although the larger sizes can be much more expensive. (You can bargain with them, however, if you're so inclined).

We were followed our whole way by some funny children, Hamza and Medina, there are the only names that I remember! But they were fantastic.

Medina