--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
wrote:

> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, Doug Murray <doug@d...> wrote:
> >
> > 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
> mine:
> >
> > >> ... The ghost town in the Sahara was called Tmardanit, or so
> our
> > >> guides told us. It's located in an area of desert known as the
> > >> Merdani (just east of the Erg Chebbi dunes). It is several

miles

> west
> > >> of a tiny town called Merzouga which is just south of a larger
> town
> > >> called Erfoud (just below the 32ndparallel on the
> Morroco/Algerian
> > >> border). I know the mayor of Merzouga and he would be a
> natural font
> > >> of information on what happened in that area in the 40s and

50s.

>
> > >> Bedouin sometimes still visit the abandoned villages.
> >
> > Does anyone have anything to add?
>
> yes
> why do you ask
> or what is your quest about or for

http://www.raingod.com/angus/Gallery/Photos/Africa/Morocco/ErgChebbi.h
tml

>
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Doug