Hundreds of trekking outfits line the streets, offering tours to Ladakh's snow-capped peaks, rocky desert plateaus and lush oasis villages.

Al Jahra was once dominated by agricultural land and began as a small oasis village.

The surrounding oasis villages are also an important center of Shi'ite Islam in the country.

Exhausted, and mounted on foot-sore horses, de Beq had led his men to an oasis village much like the one now before him.

Declining further comment, Sharif Salim led the way around to the wooden gates of the oasis village.

The commune includes the oasis village of Araouane.

The oasis village of Bishabia was nothing more than a jumble of squalid stone houses and two main dirt streets.

In the hills, just north of the desert, tip-toeing along the Algerian border, lie 3 forgotten oasis villages.

The city declined under Ottoman rule, reduced to no more than an oasis village with a small garrison.

Solaikudiyiruppu is one of the oasis villages in the sandy dunes of Kudiramozhi Theri.