Dakhla Oyster Farms

Oyster farming in the Dakhla lagoon began in the 1990s and has grown into one of Morocco's most prized food products — Dakhla oysters, fattened in cold Atlantic-fed lagoon water, are sold in Casablanca, Paris, and Madrid. The farms are visible from the lagoon shore: rows of floating cages in the turquoise shallows. Eating them fresh at a lagoon-side table is the best possible argument for coming this far south.