Not to Miss Attractions During Your Tour to Sahara Desert
By: David H.
Submitted: 2011-12-02 06:13:43 | Word Count: 517
Entire African continent is full packed with a range of tourist destinations that ranges from River Nile to Sahara Desert to jungle safari. The continent consists of over fifty countries offering great opportunities for the tourist of all over the world. Each and every country has a lot to offer making it difficult to choose where to move for vacations. Sahara Desert is also one of the best and the mysterious destinations in the world. The best means of exploring Sahara Desert is by strolling on camel.
Sahara Desert is home to some of the most fascinating and magnificent historical monuments that are embroidered with exotic sand dunes. It exhibits long endless miles of sand dunes and offers challenges who love to live life a bit wild. Due to these features and many more, Sahara Desert has always become one of the major attractions among the tourists.
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Sahara Desert is the largest sand desert in the world and covers most part of North Africa. The desert covers an area of about 8.6 million square kilometer. Morocco is a great destination offering a wide array of attractions and great opportunities for adventure seeking tourists. This magnificent tourist destination is situated right amidst the Atlas, the Anti-Atlas Mountains and Sahara Desert region.
Morocco is a great destination with many attractions along with the essence of culture, traditions and ancient history. This spot exhibits great contradictions in form of clean and clear blue water over the beache sand and fertile green valley in contradiction with brown and white snowcapped mountains. If you are visiting Morocco for the very first time then you need to do some homework in order to make your travel in this varied country a memorable one. One should start exploring this marvelous country right from its equally marvelous cities such as Casablanca, Fes, Tangier and Marrakech. These cities offer a combination of markets, riads and medinas along with some world class hotels. These are the best and not to miss attractions of the Morocco during your tour with other prominent attractions in form of Asilah, Bab Rouah, Citadel of Chellah Gardens, El Bahia Palace, Boulaouane Kasbah and many more to add to the list of attractions.
Asilah also referred as Arzilla, is a great panoramic and historically significant attraction in Morocco. This was constructed by Phoenicians as a trade post during 1549. This building is a major tourist attraction among the visitors for its magnificent seaside resort with architecture. This is also a proud venue of a cultural festival that attracts visitors from all round the globe. Now the building is designated as the National Monument and the area is famous for its friendly and warm residents.
Bab Rouah is another must visit attraction in Rabat known for offering some stunning and magnificent wall gates. Bab Rouah was constructed in the year 1197 by Yaacoub Al Mansoor Al Mauahidi. This is known as one of the most beautifully and richly decorated structures in the area. This also gives an opportunity to the visitors to explore the rooms and the gallery that focuses on the work of well renowned artists.
