Coming from Marrakesh on the main road in the direction of the South, a dirt road leads off from a crowded Hotel, no matter the season. Taking this road leads you further and further towards the desert, and after one kilometre the first houses of the Wawizelte village begin to appear.

Many of the houses as you enter the village have been built recently so are made from concrete and breeze blocks but venturing further in the houses take on the typical colours of a berber village. (…) If you ask any person on any footpath in the village how many people live there, they will answer 300, but there are never 300 people at the same time in Wawizelte. Some houses are just used for holidays, one week per year, offering jobs as a gardener or housekeeper to men in the village. Others are ruined and empty, their owners have abandoned them and left for the city. Most of the time around 100 people live in Wawizelte in the week, and 150 on the weekend when the men come back from working in the city...