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Unannounced Delays
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 ...
Tripoli : A quelques heures du début de la révolut
... de monde, les voitures arrivent à toutes vitesses vers la place et font des freins à main. La police laisse faire.
Pas trop d’ambiance dans le groupe, certainement toujours cette histoire de tente. Donc couché tôt. Dommage.
Dimanche matin très tôt, départ sur Paris. C’est dans l’après-midi que ça commencera à péter dans Tripoli. Et dans les jours qui suivent les français seront rapatriés.
Une fois de plus, t’es pas passé loin de l’action…
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Ruins, Medinas and Teahouses
... 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
... Leptis Magna began. We carried on further, down the ancient road towards the once great port. Jamal seemed nice enough but he didn't seem to know any more about the history of the site that I hadn't already gathered from my somewhat ropey guide book. He led me into the Hadriatic Baths, where a few Libyan day trippers were also wandering around. After pointing out some particularly well preserved mosaics - quite a few of the better ones had actually been carted off to ...
Riots amd Kebabs
... add-on to what was meant to be a low budget backpacking trip to Africa. The option to stopover in Tripoli might have been free but the lack of any tourist infrastructure or real competition, meant that any visit to Libya would be far from a bargain.
As it was already starting to get dark, it seemed a bit late to walk the 3 or 4 km into the centre of Tripoli. Instead, Ali drew me a map of the local streets, and I set of to explore Libya's largest ...