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Southern Morocco & Western Sahara

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Red mosque in Adai village near Tafraoute.

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The Souss Valley, where goats climb argan trees beneath the sun-baked Anti Atlas, draws a line across Morocco. South of this fertile valley, the pace of life in mountain villages and Saharan gateways is seductively slow.

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