Thobacts Hotel Tripoli

424 Omar Al Mokhtar Street 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 ...

Tripoli : A quelques heures du début de la révolut

A travel blog entry by surledep

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... manifestent sur la place avec leur drapeau libyen et l’incontournable livre vert écrit par Mouammar.
Les voitures klaxonnent, les gens montent sur les bagnoles. En théorie, rien à craindre, la police va pas tirer sur des partisans de Kadhafi..
On s’engage dans les ruelles du souk mais malheureusement la plupart des magasins sont fermés. Dommage. Notre guide nous emmène dans la vieille ville pour aller devant l’entrée de palais, église et ...

Ruins, Medinas and Teahouses

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... narrow lanes around this photogenic arch. You can even buy Libya tourist t-shirts at the solitary souvenir shop. I couldn't find the old French Consulate building and nobody seemed to be around at the old British Consulate when I wandered in, but the architecturally similar House of Yusuf Karamanli was open to the public. The atmospheric Ottoman mansion was full of enthusiastic children exhibiting their art work. I was warmly welcomed in and shown around the ...

Feelass of Power

A travel blog entry by tomcoote

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... are particularly well preserved as they ended up being hardly used. It was around this time that Leptis began to seriously over extend itself. By the third century, trade had begun to fall dramatically, and by the middle of the fourth century, large parts of the city had been abandoned. Leptis Magna came under the control of the Vandals in the fifth century, until it was so badly sacked by Berber raiders that it never really recovered. The ruins became a ...

Oburoni Bye Bye

A travel blog entry by tonyinghana

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... from Duluth to Minneapolis, but took 5 tro-tro and 8 hours to get there. I spent the tro-tro ride from Takoradi to Agona deciding if I had the courage to tell our tro-tro driver not to text while driving a car full of people...never happened. But we finally reached our Christmas destination of beach paradise. Spent Christmas Eve night eating a Ghanaian feast and sipping on whiskey. And somehow losing 4 games of pool.
Spent Christmas day napping, swimming in the ocean (though ...

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