If You're Trekking Across The Sahara, You May Just Stumble Upon This Ghostly Place

♠ Posted by Unknown in africa,cemetery,desert,graveyard at 11:39 PM

Generally, graveyards are haunting and solemn places. They are hallowed ground where we can go to remember the dead. Not often, though, do you come across a graveyard located in the middle of a desert, let alone the Sahara desert.
However, if you find yourself traveling through the Moroccan countryside, you might find yourself in such a place.

On the outskirts of the town of Merzouga, about 30 miles from the border with Algeria, is a solemn and beautiful old Muslim graveyard.

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Each of the plainly adorned graves points east towards the holy city of Mecca.

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They are each subtly decorated with the color green, which is the traditional color of Islam.

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This unnamed graveyard is located in the heart of Morocco's breathtaking Erg Chebbi region.

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Erg Chebbi is one of two large sand dune seas created by desert winds over the centuries. Some dunes in Erg Chebbi reach heights of almost 500 feet.

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Not that I spend a lot of time thinking about where I'd like my body to spend eternity after I die, but this graveyard seems like a nice, peaceful place. There is just something about the infinite nothingness of the desert that makes it seem like an appropriate place for death.