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More villages and Locusts...

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hillside village...
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...3 shots of it


These are a few more of the pictures I took of the area around Tata.


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for good luck I guess...
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...posing landy


I also found some palm trees which give a good backdrop for landy pictures as well.


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more...
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...lizard


And some wildlife was found in the form of lizards and locusts.


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dead locust...
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...piste to igherm again


Locusts are a real pain for the local farmers, arriving in their millions from the likes of Mauritania. 2004 saw a record number arrive. Near Tata is a small airstrip with crop dusting planes that try to spray the whole area with some kind of anti locust agent (quite what is a worry).

 

 
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