Somalia Travel Blogs

To Boldly Go Where No Tourist Has Gone Before
Jan 24, 2007 (11 photos)

... were allowed to at least walk around the port area.  The lonely planet guide to Africa only devotes a measly 6 pages Somalia.  It says Berbera is a "bustling commercial city-port".  I wouldn't exactly call it bustling.  The ...

Exploring the Capital
Jan 30, 2007 (7 photos)

Traveling through Somaliland really gives you a sense of exploration and discovery.  This must be one of the least visited places on the continent.  During my time in Berbera and Hargeisa I only saw other foreigners twice and both times were in ...

Peintures rupestres
Sep 27, 2009 (13 photos)

Ce site a ete decouvert par une equipe francaise du CNRS il y une dizaine d annee. Les peintures represantes des hommes des fois accompagnes de chiens, ainsi que des vaches. Les couleurs ont ete remarquablement preservees.

Somaliland
Sep 26, 2009 (11 photos)

Comment faire la somalie sans y aller. Reponse : en faisant le somaliland, etat autoproclame non reconnu internalionalement qui fait officiellemnt toujours parti de la somalie mais dans la realite on y est a mille lieu. C est sur et on risque pas de se ...

We've Arrived in Somalia
Mar 16, 1994 (5 photos)

The purpose of our lovely tour was to provide security for withdrawing UN forces. We were put into a circle pattern called Ground Hog Station just off the Mogadishu airport. We had platoons rotate for the on-call status to prevent another "Black Hawk Down ...

1ere ou 2eme qualite
Sep 26, 2009 (12 photos)

Finalement on m a montre aussi la 3eme qualite. Je parle bien sur de passeport somalien qu on achete dans la rue comme des vulgaires chaussures. Mais finalement je n aurai pas mon passport tamponne, signe car j ai voulut le faire au nom de nicolas sarkozy ...

Somolia
Oct 2, 1993

Operation Restore Hope / Provide Comfort

Productive Day with orphans, schools, hospitals
Oct 20, 2007 (2 photos)

Today we wanted to continue to pave the way for the ShelterBox arrivals even after yesterday's disappointing news. So we visited an orphange, hospital and a school for disadvantaged children. The orphange has been around since the early 1970's and ...

The country that didn't exist...
Apr 2, 2007

Somaliland, where people use the Somaliland shilling. The largest denominatino is 500 shillings and there are just 6200 shillings in a dollar... Go figure.

Arrived in Somaliland
Oct 18, 2007

After 20 hours of actual flying in five flights, I have arrived.  Picked up Ian and Pat at Heathrow and the three of us did the last part of the trip together.  Ididn't realize how far it was from England to Dubai!  Pat was here last ...

Disappointing news today
Oct 20, 2007

Today started off with a trip across Somaliland to the coast of the Gulf of Aden where the Somaliland port city of Berbera is.  We had a quick stop along the way to visit the cave paintings at Las Geil.  Apparently over 5,000 years old and was ...

Hargeisa, Somaliland
Dec 19, 2006 (7 photos)

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Good meeting with Government officials
Oct 18, 2007

This morning we were picked up at the hotel by a driver and consultant for the Ministry of 3 R's.  (Rehabilition, Repatriation, Reconstruction - I think)  The consultant is a Canadian of Somaliland descent who lives in Toronto and has been ...

Lost in Somaliland
Aug 16, 2006

The last week has seen me stuck in the wilds of Somaliland while the heaviest rains in 40 years made all the roads impassable. The only way I could get home was via a 140 Km detour that took me into a town that only 2 days before had been the mustering ...

SOMALILAND STIRRED
May 8, 2009 (4 photos)

... in like proverbial sardines to the not infrequent protests of the sardines themselves.  The border that is the old Somalia, wrapping around highland Ethiopia along a desert coastline, begins to make more sense as I travel, the vast Ogaden Desert, ...

Berbera
Dec 20, 2006 (5 photos)

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