This impressive huge shallow tidal lagoon is said to host more than 100 bird species. It is a Ramsar Convention site and a key area for migratory birds on the East Atlantic flyway. We had a very interesting guided boat tour with Khalil who knows a lot lot about the many birds and who explained also that the habitat is threatened. Cormorans are becoming too numerous, and there is more and more sand in the lagoon - instead of mud which provides much more feed for the birds. We saw oysterfishers, caspian terns, herrons, avocets, plovers, a fish eagle, flamingos (flying) and many more.
We stayed in Khalil's simple guesthouse right at the lagoon where we saw marsh owls flying out in the evening from his terrace.
Khalil at his house "Le Nid du Hibou"