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Diplomatic Hotel Tripoli

Ahmed Shawky St 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 ...

Tripoli : A quelques heures du début de la révolut

A travel blog entry by surledep

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... L’hôtel est dans le quartier des grossistes en fringue made in China ou India. Il y a une sorte de marché couvert où on trouve le poisson, la viande (surtout des abats), des animaux de compagnie, des fruits et légumes (ici, les radis viennent de Tchernobyl, ils sont quasiment aussi gros qu’une petite poire…)

Tu commences à te perdre un peu dans les ruelles qui ont gardé un aspect ancien. Tu dois ramener des cartouches de clopes, le problème est que ...

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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... being texted or chatting on his state of the art iPhone. I wondered how he could afford all these luxuries but then remembered how much I was paying him. Everyone I spoke to in Libya seemed very keen to see more tourists. They cursed the government for all the obstacles it insisted on putting in place to discourage mass tourism, but all seemed optimistic that Libya would soon start to take off as a major tourist destination. With its miles of empty beaches, ...

Oburoni Bye Bye

A travel blog entry by tonyinghana

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... who aren't great at English. Sorry, kiddo, no handouts for you. But everyone loved their clothes, candy and toys. Thanks Minnesota relatives. The same day the greedy people at the bank repossessed everything at my friend Vincents store. Two days before Christmas. He has 4 children and like no money. I haven't seen him since. Not cheerful. Afterwards I headed to Accra to meet Joeva so we could pick up one of her volunteers from the airport. We somehow found ourselves at a huge ...

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