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Aerial view of Ain Hamou and adjacent villages where gardens are in hollows between the dunes that are capped with rows of palm fronds to keep the sand from burying the plants. Water was traditionally brought up from hand-dug wells with ropes and pulleys, but now electric pumps do the work.

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Algeria Oasis
Aerial view of Ain Hamou and adjacent villages where gardens are in hollows between the dunes that are capped with rows of palm fronds to keep the sand from burying the plants. Water was traditionally brought up from hand-dug wells with ropes and pulleys, but now electric pumps do the work.

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