With its dusty red buildings and quiet lanes, sleepy Erfoud
could be mistaken for a ghost town—unless it’s time for the date festival, when revelers take this peaceable population of just 23,000 by storm. In honor of the sticky fruit, thousands descend on Erfoud each fall for a three-day festival, turning the quiet dune town into a carnival of camel races and free-flowing mint tea.
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