In the middle of the oasis and parallel to it runs a shallow valley with salt ponds and salines.

In Tazerbu there are about ten villages: the most important is called El-Jezeera.

[2] In the oasis grow groups of palms, tamarisks, acacias, esparto and Juncus.

[2] Several kilometers to the north of this village lie the ruins of an old castle, named Gasr Giránghedi, which was the seat of the Sultan.

[2] The first European to visit the oasis was the German geographer and explorer Gerhard Rohlfs in August 1879.