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288  MOROC C O REGION B Y REGION

Exploring Southern Morocco
and Western Sahara Agadir
Laayoune
All roads heading into the deep South begin at Agadir,
Morocco’s foremost coastal resort. To the east lies the great
Souss plain, which stretches north as far as the High Atlas
and south as far as the Anti-Atlas. This mountain chain of Essaouira Marrakech
rocky peaks and stony plateaux culminates on its eastern side Area shown by map
in Jbel Siroua, a remarkable volcanic massif that reaches a below TAROUDANNT Ouarzazate
height of 3,304 m (10,844 ft), and whose western side, pitted AGADIR Wadi Sous Tioute
with isolated valleys, slopes down towards the Atlantic. The Biougra
resort of Agadir is linked to Tafraoute to the southeast, and
to the numerous oases on the Saharan slopes of the Anti- SOUSS MASSA Inchadèn Aït-Baha Igherm
Atlas. The road south links Agadir with the Saharan provinces, NATIONAL PARK a s
which start at the coastal town of Tarfaya. The focal points Had-Belfa t l Tizi-Touzlimt
Pass
of human life in the Sahara are a few large towns surrounded Sidi Moussa Tioulit A IGHERM TO TATA
by banks of dunes seemingly stretching to infinity. Aglou Jbel Lekst Souk-Khemis-
2359m Tata
TIZNIT Assaka TAFRAOUTE d’Issafen
Mirleft t i Foum Zguid
n Jbel Tililt
1739m
A Ida Oussemlal Bou-Zarif
Sights at a Glance SIDI IFNI Souk-Tlata- AKKA
des-Akhasass
1 Agadir pp290–91 A TLANTIC Bou-Izakarn Oua-Belli Wadi Draa
2 Taroudannt OCEAN Aït-Herbil
3 Igherm to Tata
4 Akka GUELMIM Foum-el-Hassan
Plage
5 Souss Massa Blanche El Abiar Aït Bekkou
National Park Targoumait
6 Tiznit
7 Sidi Ifni
8 Tafraoute
D j e b e l O u a r k z i z
9 Guelmim Tan Tan Plage Assa
0 Tan Tan and TAN TAN AouÏnet-Torkoz
Tan Tan Plage Sand dunes along the coast between Tan Tan Djebel Taskalouine
q Tarfaya Plage and Tarfaya
w Laayoune Wadi Draa
Dar-Chebika
El-Mahbas
Reserve
Naturelle Sidi
TARFAYA Naila Akhfennir M'sied
Abetteh
As-Sakn
El Hagounia
Daoura

Al Gada
LAAYOUNE
Smara
Dakhla

For hotels and restaurants see p313 and pp330–31

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Date 5th December 2012
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