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Travel Blogs from Djibouti
The Gulf of Aden - my other gun's a Kalashnikov!!
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We didn’t win the quiz. We got 8 out of 10. Team Australia won. Just out of interest, I asked how many did they get as I like to know how close we were.
‘8!’ came the reply.
‘Whoa!’ I want a recount. I know it’s only a game and if we were well off the pace we could have accepted this but we have a reputation to maintain!! They had apparently marked the Tereshkova question incorrect. We had ...
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 ...
Djibouti
Je suis sauvé tous les hôtels sont climatisés. Normal vu leur prix :35 euros pour l'hôtel le moins cher. Djibouti, c'est surtout des bases militaires (française, américaine et allemande (contre les pirates somaliens)), quelques bâtiments coloniaux et surtout un port qui ravitaille l'Éthiopie.
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Coup de chaleur à 8H du matin
On m'avait dit qu'à Djibouti, il faisait chaud.
Je n'aurai pas pensé que dès 8H du matin, je n'arrive pas à supporté la chaleur et être à 2 doigts de faire un malaise malgré 2L d eau bue en 1H. Il fait quasiment 40°C le matin à l'ombre.
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Cruising down the Suez Canal
... are No1 in the convoy going south all ships have a number in the convoy going north or south, a ship passed us in the lakes which was 400mts long nearly twice our size.Cruising south the scenery changed with the green on the Egypt side and the sand on the Sinai side. The Egyptian soldiers watching from sentry boxes with portable bridges at the ready to invade the other side.!! It is still very hot at 9pm we have traveled 4745 nautical miles since leaving ...
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