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(Blvd Mohammed V; set menu Dh20)
Simple grilled meat - lamb, certainly, camel perhaps - is
served without ceremony here, but with plenty of grease and frites. For when you've had
enough of fresh fish.
Le Poissonier
SEAFOOD
$$
( 0528 993262, 0661 235795; 183 Blvd de Mekka; meals Dh60-90)
Apart from the restaurants at the
top-end hotels, this is the best dining in town. There are worse ways to spend your time
than over a fish soup or lobster in this friendly place.
Getting There & Away
CTM
(Blvd de Mekka)
has a morning bus to Dakhla (Dh175, seven hours) and services to
Agadir (Dh220, 10½ hours, three daily).
Supratours
(Place Oum Essad)
has two daily buses to
Marrakesh (Dh270, 16 hours).
Grands taxis
heading south to Dakhla (Dh175) leave from Place Boujdour.
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Dakhla
POP 40,000
The last stop before the Mauritanian border, Dakhla feels a long way from anywhere but
is a pleasant enough place and the government continues to pour money into the town.
The bus offices, central post office and most hotels and cafes are situated around the old
central market. A corniche lines the seafront.
Hôtel Sahara
( 0528 897773; Ave Sidi Ahmed Laaroussi; s/d Dh80/100)
is a reliable budget option,
with staff used to overlanders passing through on their way to or from Mauritania.
Grands taxis
to the border cost Dh250 to Dh400. Ask the driver to ferry you across the
3km no-man's-land direct to the Mauritanian border post. If you're driving, fill your tank
before crossing - petrol is cheaper in Western Sahara (the last petrol station is 80km be-
fore the border).
