Ruta N1 entre El Aaiún y El Marsa (puerto de El Aaiún), en el Sahara Occidental
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El Marsa is a coastal commune north of Laâyoune — a fishing settlement on the Atlantic shore of the southern provinces, where the desert runs straight into the ocean and the cold upwelling currents make the waters among the richest in the kingdom. Its harbour lands the catch that supplies the southern cities, and its beach is wide, windswept, and almost empty of the crowds that fill the northern coast. The dignity here is in the work and the shore.
This is for the overland traveller tracing the southern coast, and the one who wants the Atlantic without the audience. It is not a resort; its gift is the fish, the wind, and the sense of an edge.
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