Matmata (Tunisia) - The few remaining families say they are attached to the homes and the land or see no way of moving. In the arid valleys of southern Tunisia's Djebel Dahar region, people have ...

"With no stone or timber in the area, and relatively no water year-round, survival in the arid Matmata valley was hard," said Dr Habib Belhedi to Ignant. The Berbers soon discovered layers of hard ...