Golden Desert Milky Nights

Nouakchott City , Mauritania – Seyid .O.Seyid . Drinking camel milk and sleeping is silent golden desert is ultimate happiness of Mauritania nomad population leaving in harmony with nature, without imagining the existence of any technical application of ITC revolution. The best life is to drink milk with my girl Mrayouma, voiced one of the desert poets.

Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own action, stated Dalai Lama. Solitude is one of the happiest experience you may have when fixing your temporary mobile tent in no man island far from the high way and noisy polluted cities. Four hours of deep sleeping seem to be an eternal rest. Without clock alarm or any sound accept your heart beatings, you wake up at four or five in the morning in relaxed shape to see the sky stars and shining moon covering the horizon. The golden sunrise and sunset are the peak of your beautiful moments that you should never miss in the surrounding mysteries. With mixed feeling of admiration and natural abundance; you think of yourself as the king of the universe or the unique citizen still surviving to tell the world about such solitude of internal images and unbelievable imaginations. Such isolation is the best set up for psychological introspection or enriching meditation of no interruption.

If you’re not born for adventurous traveling or cannot make it for long alone, you could move on in your vehicles or on camels to the nearest Bedouin camp to settle with them. They treat you as you have been an ancient member of the neighborhood. They welcome you with natural smile without even asking who you were and why you come. They might be the poorest of the planet but they will share their little food freely. The day best news is the falling of the rain in their place or the nearest one. The preferred talk is about raising cattle’s. Men take cares of camels. Women go after the goats. Hospitality is legendary. Tribal relations are solid bounds. Social integration is the easiest adaptation. Marriages are the earliest. Girls marry in fourteens; boys do at the age of 26. There is no limit of age difference .Man could be older than woman by 30 or 40 years. Divorce is the quickest decision men can take in view minutes. The community is the happiest is such nomadic context protecting the traditions of ancestors going back in history for centuries.

They consider milk as perfect food and drink at once. Without meat, they think one boil of milk will do for the day, another for the night. The night should be milky even after eating camel or goat meat. They do not like to go to bed before ending up with drinking fresh hot milk. It may help to get a milky dream in the night of all fantasies.

Milky World:

 “I am the happiest person in my milky nights, I sell 300 litters a day”, told me the milky man Sweidat Ould Brahim (around 55 years) living in the city suburb by selling camel milk for  the last 14 years. I bought some milk and asked him about the world news. He confirmed that he should spend the rest of his life in the world of milk. The real world is camel milk. The rest is an outside business that does not interest him at all.

For elite literary figures, the golden desert scape is an inspirational way to stay inspired for writing original poems or reading selective books. Unfortunately, the majority of desert dwellers are illiterates. The oddity is that they are famous for oral traditions and untold wise stories.

Emirati poet Abdullah Bin Sultan Bin Sulayem had explained Sahara traditions of nomadic life in 38 poems. One of his verse translates, “Eager to imagine lightning raining nights. Gone with running Bedouins to join resources of water roses”.