This was our carriage... was expecting something better. a magical pumpkin perhaps?.. anyway at least it worked

Taking the carriage ride into the palmeraie. It was quite a good ride if the driver didn't keep on whipping the poor horse...

Palmeraies were very common in North African countries, especially in oases. The date palms have separate male and female versions, and one male can pollinate up to 100 females

The workers had to climb up to these 30,000 palms 3 times a year, for pollination, leaves cutting and dates harvesting

These guys didn't need any ladder or ropes. They were demonstrating the harvesting of dates

Ripen dates were brown in color

The tall palm leaves provided shades for others like fig and promegranate tress to grow in the palmeraie. That's a fig btw if you haven't seen one before.

Besides dates, these dates palm also produced palm juice, which was very sweet!

and something that could be smoked but tobacco-free...

and of course dates too, which was very sweet too!

Yes, one pipe was not enough for me...

After the visit we went back to the town (still in Nefta) for a coffee break. We were recommended to try the lime juice but we soon realized it wasn't freshly made