Rmyla’s Dune Diaries

Meet Rmyla

I'm Rmyla, and I live at Arawan Luxury Desert Camp in Erg Lihoudi.

Salem found me in Tagounite when I was small—undersized, actually, but that's irrelevant now. What matters is that I've spent every day since learning this desert: the way the light shifts across the dunes at different hours, how the wind patterns change with the seasons, where the silence sits heaviest at night.

I understand six languages because I hear them all out here—Tamazight, Arabic, French, English, Spanish, and Italian. I watch how this place affects people: their first real darkness, their first morning when the Sahara is still cool and quiet, the moment they realize how far the stars actually extend.

My perspective is ground-level and constant. I know which corners of camp catch shade when the afternoon sun peaks. I know the rhythm of desert hospitality because I've watched Salem and his family practice it daily—not as performance, but as culture. I know what questions people arrive with and what answers the desert itself provides.

This blog is my territory. I'll tell you what actually happens out here in Erg Lihoudi, what the desert looks like from my vantage point, and what you should know before you come.

No filters. No fluff. Just the information you need from someone who's here every day.

—Rmyla