Hotel la Siesta Djibouti
Siesta Beach Djibouti, 555, Djibouti
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Djibouti Palace Kempinski
97 reviews
Last review: Feb 03, 20122 miles S of Hotel la Siesta -
Djibouti Sheraton
31 reviews
Last review: Feb 02, 2012<1 mile N of Hotel la Siesta
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The Gulf of Aden - my other gun's a Kalashnikov!!
... exclaimed: ‘Where’s our lifeboat?’ Sure enough every muster station had a double-hulled lifeboat with twin prop that hold a capacity of 109 persons. As our muster station was at the end of the deck, all we had were a few inflatables. (25-person max). If in the unfortunate event that we’ll need to use them, I’m hoping they’ll give us the oars as well! The muster station is stencilled on to each life jacket. Ours is muster ...
Poverty to the Extreme
... over the streets, you're left thinking, "What the heck"?
Now I've seen poverty before when I went to Romania, but the wild camels were what really threw me off. I thought the wild dogs in Romania were strange, but we could literally have gone up to any of these camels in Djibouti and no one would have cared.
Those commercials you see about African families living in poverty almost come close to what you'll actually see in Djibouti. What an ...
Coup de chaleur à 8H du matin
... la France a colonisé ce bout de désert, ils auraient pu choisir un endroit plus agréable à vivre. (mais j'avoue que la position de Djibouti est tellement stratégique).
Heureusement, les français sont aimées là-bas, donc pas de problème ici.
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DJIBOUTI SHAKEN
... is a distinct possibility, the odds of survival are better than usual. The windows have scratched plastic over them so I can't see anything through them anyway. The only flight host is a six-foot Somali who could probably lift the plane out of the sand if necessary. We get no peanuts, but we do get to Djibouti on time. If I had visions of Djibouti being some sort of island of civility in the wilderness, a French ...
At sea again, Gulf of Aden
... cell phone service seems very efficient, and even offered to send a voice mail to a land line I accidentally sent a text message to. We have passed through the Bab El Mandeb, Bay of Tears, and are in the Gulf of Aden heading for Salalah. With these headwinds, I'm afraid we will once again miss this port (not that I've missed it before, but apparently the Star Clipper has a history of ...
