Sahara Celebration

Dusk on the last day of Ramadan in a desert village in Mauritania

Dusk on the last day of Ramadan

Tchit, Mauritania 2005

Although once Tchit was a thriving community on the silk road now it is an isolated village of several hundred people. We were there on the night that Ramadan ended and the entire populace hurried to join in the dancing and drumming which is how they celebrate a joyous occasion.

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