Douz - a desert town

Douz is on the edge of Sahara. We intended to take a camel ride in the sunset but had to cancel it due to the sandstorm. We stayed in a small hotel, Hotel 20 March, which was very nice. It was a bit hot here. In the courtyard it was like a hot sauna, it must have been 70 degrees. In the evening the official temperature came down to 42 degrees. We had a room with air conditioning which was a relief. In the morning we had breakfast and there was three italians too, an elderly couple who spoke italian and arabic but they had a young woman in company who spoke good english. She explained that the man was a desert researcher and had studied Sahara for about 40 years. They were all very nice. The cook that served the breakfast was a nice man, old like us, big and pitch black with a white kaftan. When Ulla told him she wanted black coffe, he pointed at his skin and said like me with a big smile. He walked around, dancing and drumming.
After breakfast we walked around asked for the camel market and found it in a  small oas, Unfortunately no camels today but a lot of sheeps and other animals. It was crowded with men, no woman but Ulla.