Often at odds with modern culture, today’s nomadic peoples continue a
way of life that their ancestors practiced for thousands of years.
While some move entire communities across the harsh landscapes of their
native lands, others struggle to find an identity between the world’s
political borders. In this photo, a Berber woman in Morocco shows her stained hand, which has been dyed for a wedding in the town of Taarat. There are about 25 million Berbers–also known as Amazigh–living in
Morocco and Algeria. They trace their roots back thousands of years
before the seventh-century Arab conquest that brought Islam to the
region’s mountains and deserts.
See the entire photo gallery of the world’s nomadic peoples on National Geographic’s Travel site.
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[Photo Gallery: Nomads]
Photograph by Alexandra Boulat, National Geographic
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