"Crossing the Sahara, Morocco, Oct 13 - 14, 2007" Modernnomad67's photos around Dakhlah

A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Dakhlah, Western Sahara by TravelPod blogger Modernnomad67 titled "Crossing the Sahara, Morocco, Oct 13 - 14, 2007" Modernnomad67's travel blog entry: "We spent a full day driving south, much of it along the Atlantic shoreline. The desert scenery alternated between the gray stony desert called hamada and the fields of sand dunes called ergs, overall some of the bleakest, most featureless landscape I've seen anywhere. The occasional stretches where the road ran along the seashore, though, revealed picturesque rocky bluffs and hid a number of photogenic shipwrecks. We had a truck lunch (one of those one roll, one slice of cheese, and one slice of turkey affairs that were so common with our group) in a gas station's parking lot near the military checkpoint into Western Sahara territory. There were only a few settlements south of that line, the largest being Laayoune, the territory's capital. Laayoune, however, looked like a ghost city that day, the streets almost completely deserted as people were home celebrating the Eid-Al-Fitr feast at Ramadan's end. The southern two-fifths or so of current Moroccan territory is also known as Western Sahara or sometimes Spanish Sahara because it was a Spanish colony into the 1970s. Upon Franco's death in 1975, Morocco and Mauritania both claimed part of the territory. Morocco took possession of it by marching 350000 unarmed civilians into the territory one day on signal from King Hassan ...

 

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