Business might be slow, but along with the fortune-tellers and healers, the henna tattooists, acrobats and gnaoua, the spiritual musicians, they know the importance of claiming your space before thesungoesdownandthe big breaks come.
From sandy riverbed campsites you can watch flocks of colourful parrots as thesungoesdown, andthe night becomes even more eerie when dingoes fill the darkness with their howls.