A street in Boujdour
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Boujdour is a coastal provincial capital of the southern provinces — the town at Cape Bojador, the headland that for centuries terrified European sailors and marked the edge of the known sea, until Portuguese ships finally passed it in 1434. Today it is a working fishing centre and administrative town, its harbour busy, its place in the kingdom as sure as any in the north. The desert meets the Atlantic here without compromise.
This is for the overland traveller on the long coastal road between Laâyoune and Dakhla, and the one who wants the south as continuity. It is not a tourist stop; its dignity is its work and its history at the edge of the sea.
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