article_snippet: The Royal Palm resort is huge, with much of the 570 acres devoted to an 18-hole golf course .
article_snippet: the resort is huge, with much of the 570 acres devoted to an 18-hole golf course lined with bougainvillea, laurel, roses and hibiscus shrubs – and shaded by some 4,000 olive trees, many hundreds of years old.
article_snippet: If you’re worried about the wisdom of having a water-hungry golf course sitting on the edge of the Sahara, the resort is at pains to explain that the resort has been designed with the utmost care for water resources and local vegetation.