Djibouti Travel Blogs

DJIBOUTI
Aug 17, 2007

... or restaurants,ostensibly here to provide for passing sailors,and the French Foreign Legionnaires,who have a desert base and training camp in Djibouti(I was to pass it 11/2 hours on the road to Ethiopia,in a small village,a few days later).There were ...

Djibouti
Sep 29, 2009 (9 photos)

Je suis sauve tous les hotels sont climatises. Normal vu leur prix. 35 euros pour l hotel le moins cher. Djibouti c est surtout des bases militaires (francaise, americaine et allemande (contre les pirates somaliens)), quelques batiments coloniaux et ...

Update from Assayita, northeastern Ethiopia
Jan 29, 2007

"We have finally arrived at one of our most important destinations:  Assayita.  I am truly sorry that we have not been able to update my travel blog:  it has not been because of lack of effort.  I have spent each day for the last 4 ...

New Years Celebrations
Jan 14, 2006 (50 photos)

Hi Folks, New years celebrations. Quality night had by all. 3pm - 8pm: Market Bar for tapas and pints and major bant. 8pm - 10pm: Hogans Bar for major bant. 10pm - 5am: Aorons party for massive bant. As you can see, in true CBB style, we put ...

The Afar Experience: a beacon of hope
Jan 31, 2007

... marvelous fashion show containing a display of all the traditional tribal dress for each sub-clan was performed, and a band from Djibouti was brought in to play wonderfully arousing and rythmic music.  At their invitation, I danced with the male  ...

Coup de chaleur a 8H du matin
Sep 29, 2009 (6 photos)

... ombre. Pourquoi la france a colonise ce bout de desert, ils auraient pu choisir un endroit plus agreable a vivre. (mais j avoue que la position de djibouti est tellement strategique). Heureusement les francais sont aimees la bas, donc pas de probleme ici.

un petit coin d'enfer
Aug 22, 2006

... (still well over 30 degrees), la poussiere, l'obscurite, la jambe de chevre, la faim, la soif, la fatigue. "Le voyage est long et dur," remarks my companion, and no one sees fit to challenge the assessment. We reach Djibouti at 1 am, about 4 hours late.

A Good Time, A Bad Time, A Djibouti Time
Feb 1, 2007 (23 photos)

... places on the planet.  While traveling along the road to Lac Abbe we passed several groups of refugees traveling from Somalia through Djibouti and eventually to UAE or Saudi Arabia where they hope to find a better life than back at home.  Our first ...

jackals
Aug 25, 2006

... . He was holding out for a more objective set of criteria. At 3 pm the dust stirred. Abdul waved good-bye, headed for Tadjoura and Djibouti town. We were off for the border, 2000 fr each to sit in the back of the same 4WD I had jumped out of 24 hours ...

hard scrabble
Aug 29, 2006

Up at 5 am to prepare for the 2-km walk to the bus station. Dani had a wheeled frame on which he piled all his luggage and pulled it along. We arrived at 6:15 but the long process of loading didn't begin for another hour. It was the same price (180 nakfa ...

Djibouti
Aug 23, 2006

... visa (not available in Eritrea) for re-entry to Ethiopia via Sudan. (But next day the Ethiopians said I didn't need another one). Djibouti is a French and Arab (not very African) town. Dry but really really hot. One good thing is that the taxi rides ...

speedboat
Aug 24, 2006

... open-air restaurant where you could get fish, spaghetti or a meat dish, and bread. Soft drinks were the same price as in Djibouti. After dark we locked our stuff in the mosque and slept on the beach ("the billion-star hotel"), along with a good proportion ...

no banana
Aug 28, 2006

Assab reminds me more of the town in Roman Polanski's film The Last Picture Show than of any other African town I've seen (less tumbleweed but more crows). There are wide streets but virtually no vehicles except yellow shared taxis that loop through ...

cheating people
Aug 27, 2006

Back to Zoba Immigration at 8 am, where we learn that not only are they still closed but it's the wrong office, go to Zoba Administration. Luckily everything is close together here, though it must be 40 degrees at 9 am. At Zoba Administration, same story: ...

cats and crows
Aug 26, 2006

... , which has just closed until Monday, therefore leave Tuesday. You have probably forgotten, though I have not, that travelling on from Djibouti by land (rather than flying on the Sunday) was supposed to be faster. But don't give up hope: Dani decides to ...

Pirates
Feb 10, 2007

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Autumn and Winter deployment 1975
Dec 1, 1975

Djibouti....... a bit of a hole no wonder it was a French Legion base. There was a bit of a town and the bars did have Carlsburg and Heineken so it wasn't all bad. Locals were very poor, so we had great fun throwing loose change at all the kids who thought ...

Djibouti
Nov 30, 2006

Here is hell

Dec 13, 2009
Dec 14, 2009 (5 photos)

DJIBOUTI SHAKEN
May 10, 2009 (4 photos)

... be a natural laxative; I'm relaxed.  They can't even make a decent cup of coffee here; even Somaliland had that.  Djibouti could have used more Italians, less French, but I guess it's too late for that.  Sic transit gloria, g-l-o-r-i-a...

HOT!
Mar 15, 2006

This place is too hot to bear!

At sea again, Gulf of Aden
Nov 1, 2008

 2008.10.31  Gulf of Aden   Yesterday DDG-72 met us at 12:55.  We had a favorable wind and proudly met her with sails up, makikng 10 knots.  She circled us twice and settled down about a mile behind us off Starboard ...

Désert de Kalachnikov
Nov 13, 2007

Un bon gros dodo réparateur, un petit déjeuner « à la boulangerie du coin » et c'est reparti. Pour la première fois (de leurs carrières) Gilbert accompagne Laurent pour cette expédition, pour assurer notre sécurité, en plus ce sera plus simple d'avoir ...

Country 2 - Djibouti- an expensive 4 days
Feb 6, 2008 (5 photos)

... your could buy fresh food from the markets outside near loads of souvenier stands. We are staying in a really cheap hotel for Djibouti standards - 20 pounds for room with shared bathroom with a drip of a shower supplemented with a bucket shower. I can't ...