Morocco - Anti-Atlas - 2024
The Anti-Atlas or Little Atlas is the southernmost range of the mighty Atlas Mountains. It stretches from the Atlantic Ocean approximately 500 kilometers northeastwards between the High Atlas and the Sahara desert. The Anti-Atlas is a traditional region of the Berber people with various dialects and a totally different writing which reminded us a little bit on Greek characters. Mainly they live in oasis in the extreme dry desert climate with huge differences between the settlements. Famous are its castles - Kasbah and fortified granary citadels - Agadir.
From our westernmost point on this trip to Morocco - Sidi Ifni on the Atlantic coast we came directly to our southernmost - busy Guelmim which is called the door to the Sahara desert. Its is an old medium sized city with approximately 200,000 people where in former times the camel caravans from Mauritania, Senegal and other sub Sahara areas ended, and traded their goods.