(CNN) — Striking images from the Sahara Desert show large lakes etched into rolling sand dunes after one of the most arid, barren places in the world was hit with its first floods in decades.

The film was shot close to the Moroccan villages of Erfoud and Merzouga in the Sahara Desert close to the Algerian border and Belgium over the summer of 2024. As with all of Maistre’s ...