Morocco's great moussems: the Imilchil fiançés, the Festival of the Roses, the Date moussem... all great opportunities to immerse yourself in Moroccan culture.
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With Tan Tan, we enter the desert and the deep south, the one that gets lost in the Sahara, on the borders of Mauritania.
The town is established in a region where some of the oldest statues fashioned by the hand of man have been found (the Venus of Tan-Tan , over 300,000 years old, was found on the dry banks of the Draa).
Today, Tan-Tan (and its port, twenty-five kilometres away), concentrates over 90% of the population of the province of Tan-Tan; it is the second largest town in the province of Guelmim-Es Smara.
The town is very well known for its moussem, held every year in the summer, which is classified as a World Heritage Site. It is fairly close to the port of Tarfaya (from where you can sail to the Canaries), and makes its living from fishing, a little tourism, and industry (a nuclear reactor is being built there and Morocco has plans to develop wind power). The army also has a very large presence there, which brings income to the town. Finally, as part of the Sahara’s development policy, companies based in and around Tan-Tan benefit from numerous exemptions (e.g. VAT).
