lundi 22 février 2016

Sidi Ifni..Between sea, mountains and Great South!

Ocean city, Atlas, Sahara? Sidi Ifni is one of those sweet cocktails like Southern Moroccan known offer.

Nestled on a cliff, the last vestige of the foothills of the Anti Atlas, it dominates the green blue of the Atlantic Ocean which it derives its main resources.

A strategic enclave :
The Sidi Ifni region is the birthplace and stronghold of Aït Baamrane, powerful famous Berber confederation of tribes throughout the southern Morocco for its struggle in the 1930s against both French than Spanish invaders and during the war of Ifni ' la guerra olvidada Spanish in 1957/1958.

Granted to Spain by a Spanish-Moroccan Treaty of 1767 in order to create sardine fisheries development actually dates from 1934 when General Franco decided to make this enclave a strategic military base. Not until June 1969 to be finally qu'Ifni Moroccan and 2010 she releases the provincial supervisory Tiznit

A dispersed urban planning :

His Spanish years, it retains the colonial structure, a grid of streets and avenues leading to the central square oval, urban architecture whose buildings have kept the art deco style very popular in Spain of 1930.

The old cathedral converted into a tribunal, its presbytery became library, the old admiralty, lighthouse and many houses with trees and flowers gardens along the Mohammed V Avenue are always there to remind that time. Mecca of city life, instead Hassan II, former Plaza de España offers a splendid view of the ocean ...

Besides the eccentric port of the south side of the airport, Sidi Ifni, has two neighborhoods. One former around Hassan II Square where are concentrated most of the services and accommodations as well as the municipal market.

The other area is separated him about a good kilometer from the city center through the avenues and Houria El Al Quds. Here is particularly mail, the Grand Mosque and the public garden Annasr, restaurants, cafes as well as cyber always helpful.

Beaches and waves :
The main activity of Sidi Ifni is its harbor with traditional fishing. Sardines, sea bream, croakers are landed in the afternoon sparking great excitement around, the harbor to the market, then the city waking in the late afternoon.

Its mild winter climate, proximity to large and beautiful white sand beaches, interspersed with high ocher cliffs, natural arches and small coves friendly, Sidi Ifni are a popular destination for all kinds of tourists.

The huge and aptly named White Beach in the south, attracting more and more fans of seaside activities. It is facing the small island of El Gziral Lazgira on the beach, 10km north on the road to Mirleft, that surfers and windsurfers like to gather. This beach dressed natural arches created by ocean ebb and flow, is as much a place of rendezvous water, a privileged site or amateur anglers.

The last bastions of Atlas :
Its mountain side is very quickly felt as soon as you enter its hinterland. Anti Atlas to the Atlantic to the raging waves, delivers small mountains at low altitude. A semi arid environment already foreshadowing close regs Saharan while keeping the soul of these small traditional Berber villages perched on hillsides or hidden in tiny intimate valleys.

This is the gorge of Wadi Noun, the mouth generous hosts flamingos, turtles, herons who come hibernate or breed. A nice breath of fresh air in this canyon dotted with houses, almost steep sides, decorated with cultivated terraces. On a cliff overlooking the river, the old military fort French Bou Jerif always seems to watch over the tranquility of the surroundings.

Local products in vogue :
There are many such small hidden valleys whose fed argan oil is tasty one of the jewels of local cultures. Cacti, commonly the prickly pear cactus, are also part of the landscape pleasantly.

Of seed fruit, akneri Berber, much appreciated by the locals, is from a very fragrant oil, one of the main features is to be the most expensive oil in the world. Its development is long, meticulous and production quantities small. But its unique taste gives a special taste result and actually a very courted by the top chefs as Moroccan and foreign oil.

Small hidden Edens :
Many can be made daily incursions of Sidi Ifni drive to better understand these discrete locations in a surprising country back.

Tioughza village is located east of Sidi Ifni. The picturesque road along the coast a while before sinking in small mountains to get to this village they surround. Meandering always it then leads to Wadi Salogmad before joining Amellou and Mesti where the cooperative Tafyucht developing and promoting the products of the argan tree.

It's a little south of Ifni found locality Sbouya, home of the Berber tribe of the same name. Between sea and mountains is typically Presaharan in this locality that operated the prickly pear shrubs which are grown with pride and development in the Aknari cooperative.



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