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