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Attawfeek Hotel Tripoli

Aldhra qes ben sada Street, behind Jahomrya Bank Tripoli, Libya

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Unannounced Delays

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

... would now be leaving. I rushed to catch my flight to London, and escape the grimly overcrowded airport.

Only a few hours after leaving Tripoli, I was glad to find that everything was safe and secure and as it should be in my flat. Even the plants had survived. I turned on the television and tuned into the news only to find that ...

Ruins, Medinas and Teahouses

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... the only Western tourist. I'm sure that there are organised groups that turn up, and a few Westerners over here on business, but few seemed to have realised that independent travel is (largely) possible in Libya. Towards the further, and less crowded, end of the medina, is the Arch of Marcus Aurelius (around 163 AD), the only remains of the Roman city of Oea. Most of the international hotels, along with a few restaurants, and some old European Consulates, are situated ...

Feelass of Power

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... for him to meet us. Jamal sat us down at a table, bought us coffee, and proceeded to make polite conversation. It seemed to have been assumed that he was going to be my guide. Knowing that the guides charged so much, I thought I'd better bring up the subject of money before we began and rather foolishly agreed to his lowest rate without bargaining harder (they will often make out that it is compulsory to have a guide in Libya when this isn't always true).
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Riots amd Kebabs

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... fly home for Bamako in Mali - with a short break in Tripoli. The visa would cost me 90 Euros but there was no extra change for the stopover. As Afriqiyah was the cheapest option from London to West Africa, anyway, I thought I'd try and make it to Libya before all the crowds arrived.

After emailing my credit card details and a scan of my passport to the Sarah Guardian Hotel, they promptly emailed me back a visa number that I simply presented at ...

Oburoni Bye Bye

A travel blog entry by tonyinghana

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... taking my last tro-tro to Labadi beach to say goodbye to some friends. Got the full tro-tro experience too...shared my ipod with some little dude who was sitting next to me, almost got in an accident (so much yelling), and had some woman ask me where I was going and then follow me to Labadi, insist on me paying for her to get in and holding onto me for dear life as I paid for myself and the workers tried to get her to leave (I later saw her thrashing around in the ocean in all of ...

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