| Here is a view of Agadir from the Kasbah, showing a somewhat warped view of the city, the beach and the port areas. I wasn't thinking of stitching the pictures when I took them and they must be at 2 different "zoom" settings. Well, you get the idea. Dry, hot and lots of sand. Agadir was almost totally destroyed by an earthquake in the 1960's and the city was moved a little bit south, from where the blank area near the road is. Consequently, there is very little "old" architecture. |
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| Agadir is a popular vacation spot for Europeans and native Moroccans alike. There has been a steady build-up of hotels for the last few years that is still going on. I stayed at one of the big hotels called the Agadir Beach Club. It was a nice place to stay, but it is sad to see some of the hotels aggressively roping off the beach from public access. The writing on the cliff in the upper-right photo says, "God Country King". There is a nice "boardwalk" area at the north end of the beach towards the port. |
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| I read somewhere that Agadir gets around 360 days per year with sunshine...it will probably be nice... Agadir is very much a tourist destination, but it is also a larger city and not quite as cute as
Interlaken,
Monterey,
Newport, Rhode Island,
Rockport, Massachusetts,
Sedona, Arizona, etc. |
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You can never get away from the beach in Agadir, but here are a few pictures of the rest of the city: Downtown Agadir, houses, the market, or "souk" and the zoo. |
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| There are still many new buildings going up, mostly hotels along the 10km beach, I think. You can see there is already a McDonald's. |
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| The main souk (market) is on Thursdays; the zoo is open most all of the days. |
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