Subject: Re: Morocco-Algeria
Date: Jan 08, 2004 @ 16:15
Author: m06079 ("m06079" <barbaria_longa@...>)
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>mine:
> I am trying to track down some information on a ghost town on the
> Algeria-Morocco frontier. Here is what I know from a friend of
>our
> >> ... The ghost town in the Sahara was called Tmardanit, or so
> >> guides told us. It's located in an area of desert known as thewest
> >> Merdani (just east of the Erg Chebbi dunes). It is several miles
> >> of a tiny town called Merzouga which is just south of a largertown
> >> called Erfoud (just below the 32ndparallel on theMorroco/Algerian
> >> border). I know the mayor of Merzouga and he would be anatural font
> >> of information on what happened in that area in the 40s and 50s.
> >> Bedouin sometimes still visit the abandoned villages.yes
>
> Does anyone have anything to add?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Doug