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Four Seasons Hotel Tripoli

Omar El Mokhtar Street Tripoli, Libya

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Unannounced Delays

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

... now Libya that was making the headlines. The uprising had already started while I was in the airport and my flight back to London had been amongst the very last to leave. Only a few hours later and I'd have been in Libya for rather longer than a short break.


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Tripoli : A quelques heures du début de la révolut

A travel blog entry by surledep

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... peu d’argent local. Tu trouves tout un troupeau de flic qui surveille une grande rue. Ça sent la manif … Tu leur baragouines en arabe que tu cherches une banque ; Y en a pas un qui est capable de te dire où il y en a….Apparemment, ça existe pas ici… Mal barré pour acheter des souvenirs.
Bon tu retournes à l’hôtel pour la visite officielle à 2 à l’heure.
On passe près de la place verte qui commence à se remplir de monde. Plein de gens ...

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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... scenery, and some of the greatest historic sites in the whole of the Mediterranean, how could it not?

We picked our way through the remains of the grand forum that Septimus Severus constructed at the time of Leptis Magna's greatest prominence, and carried on through the ruins towards the ancient docks that Severus had also extensively rebuilt. The natural harbour had always had a tendency to silt up but these 'improvements' had made it far worse. The ...

Oburoni Bye Bye

A travel blog entry by tonyinghana

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... church service with music and dancing directly outside of the arrival terminal at the airport. Only in Ghana. So we picked up the new volunteer and got to stay at a legit hotel with AC and my second hot shower in 4 months. I wonder if soon I'll start missing bucket showers.
Spent one day Travelling from Accra (Christmas Eve travel = Mariah Carey and Chris Brown Christmas music playing on my tro-tro) to Axim where Green Turtle Lodge is. It's probably the same distance ...