Most travel blogs I had read, all except one, said that Somaliand is a very friendly place with people being very curious as there are literally no tourists there. Everyone you pass on the street do indeed try to stop you for a conversation, but all our conversations were short lived, usually just consisting of...Read More
I had been walking around Djibouti City for three days asking tour companies, taxi drivers and just ordinary people about how to get to Lac Assal, but all were saying that it is nearly impossible to do with buses/hitchhiking and others quoted me with 350usd or so for a tour. It was not before me...Read More
Meeting a camel in Lawya Caddo, Somalia The ride from Djibouti City to Hargeisa in Somalia was one of the worst of my life. As we were the last to book, me and Eli were put in the so called “dog seat” in the bumpy back of a seven seater LandRover where they had manages...Read More
Flying into Djibouti Airport was like flying into the World of Mad Max. Everywhere you looked the landscape was dry and there were hundreds of broken down cars, planes and other vehicles resting around the airport. All I had heard about Djibouti from before was that it was expensive and unfriendly, which compared to its...Read More
South Sudan is the newest country in the World and probably one of the most unstable. It is on the brink of collapse, with high inflation, hunger and a civil war that has been going on since 2013. I flew in to Juba Airport which pretty much was just some tents, chaotic with people literally...Read More
Zanzibar is an amazing place, rich in history, culture and with some fantastic beaches, BUT, the tourism is partly ruining it. Western tourists with little respect for the local life, walking through the streets in hotpants and bikini tops, while most local women wear nikabs and burkas. Guys trying to immitate the western boys by...Read More
I loove trains, and I have already completed the most famous train rides I can think of; from the Trans Siberian Railway to the Silk Road and riding on top of the World’s longest train in Mauritania. The Tanzanian Central Line was no different. It was old with curtains, furniture and wall coverings from the...Read More
Being on a three day African Train journey between Kigoma and Dar es Salaam the story of how Burkina Faso caught me up in jail comes back to me. I have never wrote anything about it before but it was on a similar train ride that it all happened. Me and my American Friend Travis...Read More
Kigoma is the kind of place I think that it would be nice to live in for a couple of years. It’s small, safe, but still has everything you need. There is a small expat community, but more in the humanitarian sector than anything else, so most locals have good respect for the Mzungus/white people...Read More
Couchsurfing really made my trip to Kigoma memorable. My host there, Anthony from Belgium, was working with distributing beans and fertilizer in a city called Uvinza and had asked me if I could drive his motorbike and girlfriend over so that we could find a place to go camping around there on the weekend. Loving...Read More
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When I arrived at the border of Burundi I was afraid of being rejected by the immigration because my visa was not valid before the day after, but they just stamped me in without any questions or comments which also was surprising considered the current state of the country. Burundi has been unrestful the last...Read More
