During our stop in Zagora, a very nice town with airport, hotels, we drive sixty kilometer South to Tagounite a small town with school, palm grove, middle way on the road between Mhamid and Zagora, it's a sand plain surrounded by black hills. But it's sure that this business is responsible for the loss of scientific information on all the West part of the Sahara. South of this place is a no man's land between the two countries with military forts when you approach the border, so we stay on the Moroccan side to reach Zag. Since few years there is a new direct road which links Foum-Zguid, Akka, Assa and Zag so the travel is easy and we have time to have a nap. They are plateaus made of white marl, calcareous soils and quartz pebbles.
Water is rare but a vegetation of acacias trees grows near the dry oueds.
Nice yellow flowers and white pointed thorns. First contretemps when we approach the town of Zag, a military place. Just a few years ago the Western Sahara was the context of offensive actions and all the area is still under military control. They check our identity and don't want to let us continue South. It's time to map out another route to reach the Lahmada plateau.