The brightly-dressed women of the place can be seen fetching water from fountains, in copper or tin cans which they carry on their heads. Schoolchildren walk about the little country roads, learning their lessons as they go.
Small boys lead the family s donkey back from the orchades.
But it is not for its bucolic charm that Al Bara deserves a place on the visitor s itinerary. Indeed very few visitors do come up here. The village nestles half-way up the slope overlooking a wide valley. The whole of the valley floor and the slope opposite are covered with the remains of a vast number of houses which can be seen between the olive trees. The ruins, though indeed at first sight they seem too large to be ruinous, spread over at least three kilometers.