Dear Reader (2025-11-13 – posted simultaneously to FB)
In today’s post you and I have a last look at Ghardaia, and then stop briefly in Tindjillet. As you know, I like to give you a bit of a context for the images I share. Today, I have nothing for you about the abandoned ruins and caves of the mud brick village called either Tindjillet or Grotto d’Ighezar. The internet failed to provide any usable historical notes. All I can tell you is that the abandoned town is near Timimoun (post: Algeria – 14). You know you are off the beaten track when the interweb draws a blank.
Notes on Photos
~ 01 to 07 – Ghardaia
~ 07 – The pool at the guest house where we stayed for a couple of nights.
~ 08 to 12 – Tindjillet
~ 08 – Captured with permission of the seller of scarves for creating a litham. A litham sometimes pronounced lifam is a mouth-veil which Tuareg men have traditionally used to cover the lower part of their face (1). The Tuareg are an ethnic group of Berbers. All Tuareg are Berbers, but not all Berbers are Tuareg.
Footnotes
~ (1) – Adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litham.
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<1- "Off the beaten track." For a while there was a game to enter a search term into Google and get a single result. Yes, that was when Google was young and not yet actively evil. I was pretty sure that if Google didn't "know" something, it would make it up. It is reassuring that the interwebs drew a blank. It wasn't so long ago that travellers going lots of different places had no idea what they were getting into. Many of them died, of course, and some probably wished they had. Now there is much less of that kind of danger in the world.
4-Love the colours! Linda bought a Berber rug while in Morocco, though it isn't that colourful.
5-This is a terrific image! Love it. The different shapes and textures drawing the eye upwards to the pyramid of lights. Take it to Royce.
8-A nice portrait. He looks stern, but I think there's a softer part of him inside.
So I have been thinking of thinking of what the analogue record of this wander should be. Perhaps there are a dozen or two images that could be printed as the Algerian Portfolio?