The front Saharan job?
These are two white camels, giant, which welcome visitors at the entrance of the city ...
Already Guelmin south of 125km, it is a huge desert reg to be crossed to reach Tan Tan. The crossing of the Oued Draa really marks the end of the Anti Atlas geographically symbolizing the arrival in the Sahara south west Morocco.
For the adventurous, a ford is 8 km from the track to cross this river which Pliny the Elder said in his Natural History 'that' Darat Flumen 'was full of crocodiles.
After an arduous journey of nearly 500 miles across northern Moroccan Sahara, the Draa finally water, hard meandering through the dunes to complete its journey in the Atlantic.
A city, a port, but especially the beaches
You do not come in Tan Tan for sightseeing and lack of city beauty does not lend itself to the joys of the photo .. but to El Ouatia, Tan Tan Plage for some.
It is located 25 km from the town on the road to Laayoune. There is a shark medley standing on their fins welcome the traveler. The tourism program envisaged for the South of Morocco plans to make this port a seaside resort.
Opened in 1982 after five years of work, the main southern harbor sardine, one of its activities is the fish processing: canning units, freezing, shipping, processing provide employment to nearly 4,000 people.
Often tourists prefer El Ouatia in Tan Tan city as a stage on the road south. Despite its services, hotel capacity is minimal while the arrival of the fishing boats ensures sought animation. Nearby beaches encouraging idleness, ocean rollers are an invitation for surfers.
Fun and Culture
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Tan Tan became over editions a major destination for the Sahrawi tribes. they can continue to express the rich nomadic culture that tends to wane with the settlement and urban mirage.
Following the regional tensions caused by the annexation of Western Sahara by Cherifian kingdom in 1979, moussem Tan Tan was banned for 25 years, not resuming until 2004. It was in 2008 that Unesco's godmother moussem include this great event nomadic intangible cultural heritage, reinforcing the process of Tan Tan to promote and maintain these traditions dear to the Saharan life.
Thanks to its cultural past, moussem Tan Tan is considered the most important meeting in this northern nomadic western part of the Moroccan Sahara. Modeled on the farming pace of Sahrawi tribes, meetings were traditionally held around the month of May.
This is especially since 1963 that this gathering has really taken the form of a moussem great fair stands for meetings, wedding ceremonies, sales and purchasing, family or tribal alliances, exchanges both commercial cultural.
The Venus of Tan Tan, an archaeological curiosity
Like many places in the Moroccan Sahara Tan Tan interested archaeologists. Indeed, it was in 1999 that a German researcher Lutz Fiedler discovered the enigmatic statue on the north bank of the Draa, near Tan Tan. Containing traces of red ocher pigment to it dates from the period of the Acheulean or there about 300 000 years.
6 cm long, quartzite rock, some interpret as a human representation devoid of face. For its discoverer and others, it might have been created by a natural geological process.
Continue further south
On the road south along ribbon of asphalt sinks towards Tarfaya and Laayoune, marrying a wild Atlantic coast scenery. Up Tarfaya high cliffs dominate the tumultuous ocean. On the banks of these, fishing villages offer dried fish in exchange for food. Neither hotel or store, these villages are only Wrong?summaries camps they live for several weeks.
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