Western Sahara
Country, Plot of Land, or Territory?
If you look at any map, Western Sahara appears to be a country. Is it really a country though?
The country is administered by Morocco with the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic claiming it as its own, but Morocco runs a large part of it. Spain gave up its claim to it in the 1970’s.
A few of us debated this time and time again. It is a very sparsely populated place with only about 600000 inhabitants. It appears to look like something out of a futuristic apocalyptic movie like Mad Max with endless sand, trash, and a few littered shanty towns.
The coastline is very beautiful in this country, however with high cliffs and no real beaches, it will never attract any tourists. With not a lot of infrastructure we bush camped all of the nights here next to high sand dunes, where the wood was scarce and we had to watch what we burned.
And our adventure continues to the next country…..