18 Sep Africa: Why do I like it so much?

Good morning, everyone.
As you know, I've just arrived from Africa and I'm already missing it. Today I am going to try to explain to you, with the help of some of my impressive photos, the reasons why I feel so attracted to this continent.
Here are the reasons why, let's see what comes out.
1.- Because my first years of life were spent in one of the most beautiful places in Africa and in the world, Villa Cisneros, now Dakhla, a small port in Western Sahara, now unfortunately occupied.

2.- I suppose that for this reason, and for everything that my parents passed on to me from that adventure, is why I have this predilection for deserts, although this one in the photo is not a desert as such (it is the great dune of Merzouga, in Morocco).

The truth is that in Western Sahara you can find some incredible places.
This picture is a ship graveyard in Nouadhibou, Mauritania, near La Guera, at the southernmost tip of our ancient Sahara.

Or the beach of Cape Juby, or Tarfaya as it is now called, where Saint-Exupéry landed and established a base for his flights between Senegal and France, and where he wrote his first novel "South Mail", and was inspired to write "The Little Prince",

3.- Besides, in the deserts you can observe the most starry nights in the world. You only have to look for a dune like this one (only the dune), wait for the night to come and stay to sleep watching the stars, there are few things better than this.

and if you are lucky enough to be as well accompanied as I am, even better.

4.- I also love Africa, because whenever I go there I get into trouble, I attract them, and that happens to me because I can't always tell the difference between the good guys and the bad guys.
These are clearly good

and these are very bad, if you find them in a local market, don't insist on taking a photo of them.

5.- Another thing I like about Africa is that you can see nature in its purest state, and from very close up... We have seen enough of these in the Serengeti...

You can even get a nice armchair with an incredible view of nature, at least that's how I felt when I went to plant in Chad (have I ever told you that I lived there?).

6.- I also like that every time I go there I feel that I am doing something useful. It is not that what I do is not useful, but sometimes I have doubts... Of all the places I have been to, the ones that have impressed me the most are the refugee camps in Darfur.

7.- I also love their markets, with their colours, even though they insist on charging me ten times the normal price for everything, I don't know how they must find out that I'm not from the area. Some of the most famous markets in Africa, apart from the souk in Marrakesh, are the Merkato in Addis, the biggest open air market in Africa or the Kejetia market in Kumasi. Here are some photos of the ones I liked the most. This is the market of the beasts of Abéché.

This is the Kousseri market in Cameroon.

I was going to say that I also love African food, but nobody will believe that. In view of what they sold in the market, you can understand why I spent so many months eating chicken every day.

9.- Another thing I like a lot about Africa is the colours of everything.

©DESERTANDO

10.- I like the fact that the climates are always so extreme.

This is a proper sandstorm

11.- Finally, I like the fact that you can still find peoples like the Peul, the Fulani, the Dogon, the Luba, etc., etc. who still live the same way they did 200 years ago, only contaminated by mobile phones, satellite dishes and miles of Barça shirts, (oh shit).

These are some of the reasons why I like Africa so much, but when I enjoy it the most, it's when I'm back in contact with a beer on the side.