Twaregs are berber people and with their camels, are found all over the Sahara.. They are the original inhabitants of this sandy desert and still live a nomadic life
This was taken last year during my trip to Morocco and the southern tail of the Anti-Atlas mountains (named Djebel Bani) in Morocco, about 350 miles southeast of Marrakech.
We traveled south by bus from Marrakech, arriving late the night before for the yearly camel market in Goulemim, officially known as the ‘gateway to the Sahara’ and undertook a 3 day camel safari with our twareg guides.
The indigo-dyed garments worn by the Tuareg, from which they were nicknamed ‘blue men of the desert,’ are most prized. Because water is scarce in the desert, the indigo is pounded, instead of boiled, into the cloth. This method of dying the fabric imbues the cloth with a shimmery blue-black patina. With wear, the color seeps into the pores of their skin, casting a bluish-violet hue. Since indigo is precious and expensive, their bluish skin has become a status symbol among them: the darker blue a man’s skin, the wealthier he appears.
Also only the men go veiled not their women which is quite different from other Muslim Societies around them.. They have a feudal system and inheritance is through the maternal line. They also have their own written language which is descended from old Libyan writing. They were the original founders of the city of Timbuktu.
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