Eritrea Travel Blogs

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 ...

SLOW ROAD TO CHINA
Aug 9, 2007 (8 photos)

... in the tourist stakes,and even with it,was not worth the all day ride from Khartoum,unless you were continuing to Eritrea,or Port Sudan. Within 45 minutes we stopped for breakfast,sitting in a shaded desert cafe,but surrounded by flies.A man shouted at ...

massawa
Aug 30, 2006

Dani had decided to carry on to Asmara, so we parted here. As the bus pulled away he was angrily denouncing the bus guys who were asking him for more money: "Same price - you cheating!" At the Corallo Hotel at 7:45 am, every room had the door ajar ...

Visiting one of the three hotest palces on Earth
Mar 29, 2004 (7 photos)

Driving along the Red Sea Beach from Mistawa to all the Assab city. We reached to Galalu village after half an hour driving from Massawa. When we got to Bardooli Village we sow Savan land with green grass and Fisher men along the side with nomads of ...

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 ...

Asmara
Sep 3, 2006

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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

... I went to the bus station to buy tickets for next day, I learned that we need a permit to travel overland in Eritrea, obtainable from Zoba Immigration, which has just closed until Monday, therefore leave Tuesday. You have probably forgotten, though I have ...

Eritrea
Oct 1, 2005

Driving in the early hours of the morning from Asmara international airport, the streets are empty.I am worried that nobody will be awake at Pension Pisa or will sleep too heavily. The lad has his bed under the counter like a sailors berth and hears my ...

Humid and run down Massawa
Jan 25, 2008 (5 photos)

 Massawa is on the coast and we were hoping to spend a week soaking up the sun on a beach. Unfortunately the town seemed more of a bombed out town with no beaches or even anywhere to eat than anything else, although arriving on Friday (the Sabbath) didn't ...

Keren- into the countryside
Jan 29, 2008 (17 photos)

The bus journey was fun over all the hills back to Asmara (3h) and then 4h to Keren past various check points making sure we had the correct paper work to be allowed to go out of the Capital. Luckily we had read the lonely planet and knew we needed ...

Country 1 - Capital Asmara
Jan 23, 2008 (21 photos)

The beginning of our journey around Africa stated in Eritrea in East Africa. We started with a few days in the capital Asmara - which seems like it should be in Rome rather than Africa. We are enjoying the coffees and cakes and pizzas as well as the ...

Camels Ahoy
Nov 30, 2005

... of the local population involved in national services in all service and military industries.   You cannot live in Eritrea as a national without having completed your national service - there you have it and we Zimbabweans complain!   ...