An-Naher Hotel Tripoli

Tariq Street, Ar-Rashid District Tripoli, Libya

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Unannounced Delays

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

Four weeks later, having backpacked from Benin to Mali, I was back in Tripoli. I had meant to be just changing planes but there was a delay and nobody was telling us why. The huge plasma screens at the airport were no longer showing CNN or BBC World News. The flight delays seemed to be stacking up but then it was announced that a couple of ...

Ruins, Medinas and Teahouses

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... most is Colonel Gadaffi's old Volkswagen Beetle. They also display the army jeep that he triumphantly drove into Tripoli on in 1969, along with a number of ostentatiously large portraits of Libya's 'Brother Leader'.

Having walked through the walls of the old city, you find yourself in a typically bustling North African medina. It's actually remarkably similar to the medina in Tunis, and seems to sell almost identical goods. The only real difference was that ...

Feelass of Power

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... will find that they are the only ones.

After a couple of stops at police road blocks - who soon lost interest after a cursory glance at my passport - we soon arrived at a sandy car park at the edge of the ruins. There were a couple of gift shops and a café but no other tourists. A number of 'guides' were sitting around, sipping at mud like Libyan coffee, while hoping for some visitors. Muhammad had already phoned up his friend, the stripy jumpered Jamal, ...

Riots amd Kebabs

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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I'd wanted to go to Libya for a while but had been put off by what had seemed to be mountains of red tape and the apparently prohibitive expense of having of having to sign up for an escorted group tour. After looking into it a bit more deeply, however, I discovered that it was possible to visit Libya for 48 hours without having to join an expensive package tour. I found that I could combine a longer trip to West Africa - where I could fly into Cotonou in Benin, ...

Oburoni Bye Bye

A travel blog entry by tonyinghana

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... I had to part ways with Joeva. Wow I'll miss her. Took an even more sad tro-tro ride back home and took one last attempted nap in my oven room. Packed up my sad lonely little room, spent time with Kadri, got an interesting 'thank-you' speech from Kwame which ranged from the power of God to the point of our existence, played cards with my three neighbor boys, bought Cena a Christmas gift, had my last banku, and got one last mediocre nights sleep in my 6 foot lumpy bed.
Spent my ...

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