Nouzha Hotel Tripoli

Abu Gfifa Street, Ben Ashoor Tripoli, Libya

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Unannounced Delays

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

Four weeks later, having backpacked from Benin to Mali, I was back in Tripoli. I had meant to be just changing planes but there was a delay and nobody was telling us why. The huge plasma screens at the airport were no longer showing CNN or BBC World News. The flight delays seemed to be stacking up but then it was announced that a couple of ...

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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... Phoenicians around 1100 BC and later became Africa's premier Roman city, under the reign of the Libyan Roman Emperor, Septimus Severus (r AD 193 - 211). If Leptis Magna was in Tunisia or Morocco or Egypt, then it would be crawling with thousands of tourists. As it is, it receives remarkably few foreign visitors. Every now and again, a luxury cruise liner will anchor down nearby, and the site will be inundated by hordes of affluent coffin dodgers but most ...

Riots amd Kebabs

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... to pay more for a larger room, which I could then use right up until it was time to fly out in two night's time. I had also agreed to hire out a taxi for the day to take me to the Roman ruins at Leptis Magna, as well as to and from the airport, as there appeared to be little in the way of public transport. By the time that my 90 Euros for the visa (plus another 10 Euros 'registration fee' that I hadn't know about) was added on, it was going to work out as a ...

Unbelievable

A travel blog entry by harriel

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This night it started raining at 0500. It rained til we have been on site. There our offices have been flooded, even the printers were covered with doping water.
To avoid damage and fire, the construcor decided to switch off the electrical power, and we went home.
When we got out of the office, ...

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