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With over 340 days of sunshine a year, it is no wonder that
Agadir, situated on the southern part of the Morocco's Atlantic coastline, has
become the country's number one tourist centre.
Some complain that Agadir is too
modern and has become too commercial, but in a country full of exotic flavour it
is a pleasant place to put your feet up and enjoy the comforts and services of a
Western-style tourist resort.
The beach, together with the weather, forms the main attraction
for thousands of sun worshippers, who come especially in the winter months to
escape the cold and gloom of northern Europe. Around this, a resort town with
restaurants, bars, cafés, modern, comfortable hotels and a broad offer of water
sports has developed.
Agadir thanks its modern look, with broad boulevards and
pedestrian walkways in part to the rapid development of this tourist industry,
but also to the powerful earthquake that destroyed much of the old town in
1960.
Besides sunbathing and water sports, Agadir also offers visitors
golf courses, tennis clubs, horse riding and boat trips out to sea, where
schools of dolphins and whales can be spotted.
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