Western Sahara - Dakhla - Travel - Jim Rogers World Adventure

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In this video Jim and Paige travel to Dakhla in the west Sahara.

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Dakhla (Dajla), or ad-Dakhla (formerly Villa Cisneros), is a city in the Morocco-administered Western Sahara with about 67,468 inhabitants. It is about 550 km south of El Aaiún on a narrow peninsula of the Atlantic Coast. It is the capital of the Oued Ed-Dahab-Lagouira region.

Dakhla was founded as Villa Cisneros in 1502 by Spanish settlers during the expansion of their Empire.

During the colonial period, the Spanish authorities made Dakhla the capital of the province of Río de Oro, one of the two regions of the Spanish Sahara. They built a military fortress and a modern Catholic church, both of which remain points of interest for visitors to the city. A prison camp also existed here during the Spanish Civil War, at which writers such as Pedro García Cabrera were imprisoned.

During the 1960s, the Francoist dictatorship also built here one of the three paved airports in Western Sahara (IATA Code: VIL). Between 1975 and 1979, Dakhla was the province capital of the Mauritanian province of Tiris al-Gharbiyya, consisting of its annexed portion of Western Sahara.

The main economic activity of the city is fishing.

In the area south of Tindouf, Algeria, there is a Sahrawi refugee camp named after Dakhla.



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[BruceFenton]

this was in 1999 remember

[Tvdhakla]

I love the mists that forms when the warm desert air meets the cold off the ocean. The short stubby plants that survive on the moisture of the mists are hugely interesting.

[Tvdhakla]

Own car? That's not what you said in a message to my friend. From the tone of that you were very young and would have been with your parents.

Make your mind up. On other comments you have revealed a lack of understanding of both the region's and of Morocco's history. Think BEFORE you reply.

[PatoWiNNERS]

Dakhla is Morocco you idiot !

[AcesHighProd]

its morocco you son of a bitch

[Blanky027]

Nice!

[StubberRubber]

hmm very smooth roads for a third world desert country

[SecularTechnology]

@smellytoilet1996

lol

[smellytoilet1996]

lol what's with that pimped-out Mercedes?

[Dillon1108]

I would not bring a mercedes to a place like that. :p

[hbensari]

it's actually called Morocco...

[daktariTJ]

haha he wonders how the hawk got there.

dude I wonder how YOU got there!

[daktariTJ]

what a shitty car, off the road you'd get stuck in a minute.

There's no way to make some serious sahara travel with that crap.

And I hope this guy gets mugged a lot...