Western Sahara


Western Sahara

Country, Plot of Land, or Territory?

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If you look at any map, Western Sahara appears to be a country.  Is it really a country though?

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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.

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And our adventure continues to the next country…..