Friday, July 13, 2012

At the end of February I continued my journey to Laayoune in Western Sahara which is an occupied territory by Morocco. There are two bus companies going there from Agadir, they are called CTM and Supratours. The journey from Agadir to Laayoune took around 12 hours and it was very cold in the bus. Someone lent me his jacket otherwise I would have been freezing all night. When I arrived in Laayoune I found this city not interesting at all, but in the evening it looked much better when the markets were open. My host gave me traditional clothes and I wore it during 3 days when I stayed there, but I found it difficult to wrap myself in it. The first day I tasted camel milk and then we ate also grilled camel meat in the restaurant.
The second day we went to a beach which was around 30 minutes by car from Laayoune but it was very windy there. My clothes were waving in the wind and we took a lot of pictures. 
Then my host found someone who had a jeep and took us to a place which looked like a desert and we had fun taking many photos. One wheel of the jeep got stuck in the sand and we had to dig it out.
After my trip to Laayoune I travelled to Dakhla which is much better city comparing to Laayoune, more interesting and lively. There are many people from Mauritania and Senegal and it resembles more real Africa. I met a couchsurfer there and he showed me the city. I drank a very good avocado juice there, it costed around 1 Euro. I had two hosts in Dakhla who shared a flat, but on Saturday they took me to their family house and we stayed in the cave at night by the beach where they killed a chicken and cooked it for dinner. There was a wonderful view on the sky with all the stars shining brightly. The following day I swam in the sea. 
When we returned to Dakhla we found a shared car which took me to Nouadhibou in Mauritania on March 5th.
 

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