Asmara Hotel

... Terrible, terrible, terrible internet connection. Yahoo takes nearly an hour to connect. Googlemail is much faster Where we stayed Hotel Asmara Central - smelly toilets in ensuite rooms. Was ok (365 nfa) Concord Pension - Lovely place with courtyard. ...

... to the same process by a fellow African country - be that as it may I finally left Rome via Jeddah to arrive in Asmara.   Jeddah - now that's another world and this is my limited view from an aeroplane.   We were not allowed to disembark ...

We left Sanur the next morning to our next destination, Candidasa,   where we stayed at the Amir Asmara dive resort   . Paige had wanted to dive and she did sign up for some diving but had to cancel because of some sinus problems. We ...

... all Muslim areas, gleaning the garbage dumps and playing hide-and-seek with us cat lovers.  There’s even a cheap flight to Asmara across the sea.  Maybe I WILL have to come back and stick around.  That’s the back burner, ...

... injected into the place it will be all it is cracked up to be... or maybe a guide or someone ... unfortunately noone at the hotel spoke English and since our knowledge of all other languages is rubbish we ran back to Asmara with our tail between our ...

... geography, the people, it was all a warm and familiar deja vu. For those interested, you can read about our adventures in Asmara, Adi Gulti, Keren, Massawa, and with our friendly hosts and tour guides. We recalled how when we were in Eritrea we said ...

Dani had decided to carry on to Asmara, so we parted here. As the bus pulled away he was angrily denouncing the bus guys who were asking him for more money: "Same price - you cheating!" At the Corallo Hotel at 7:45 am, every room had the door ajar ...

... 1855. The Italian have left their mark on the city,  building typical architecture from the 1930's, with slight similarities to Asmara. During WW II, Gondar served as their headquarter after the fall of Addis Ababa. The city was bombed by the ...

... ;We also had to traipse some distance in the dark to register at the local police station and get permission to travel to Asmara the following day.I was glad of the two lads showing me the way,and of their,admittedly limited,translation abilities. Then ...

... , which looked like a lot of work!  We only stayed a short time, and then our driver took us to our new hotel, Alalm Asmara Dive Resort in Candidasa.  I had chosen this hotel because it was long the ocean - which I thought would be a nice ...

... was carved out and made into a shrine. It is said to have hid some Italians from British planes in the war. On our way back to Asmara to catch our plane to Djibouti we ended up joining a 4 hour bus queue. Here we learnt the art of queuing. You have to ...

... in the legacy the Italians have left here. there are lots of art deco houses in the street of the hotel, many with rather lovely tiles manufactured in Asmara (the Italians were in Eritrea for far longer). The building I'm in now, as I write this, was ...

... to make a reservation for me, though, and I would pay at the airport in Djibouti. Dani and Asilka accompanied me to the airport in Asmara. We arrived at 7:30 as advised for the 10:30 flight, but we were too early to get into the terminal and had to ...

... , as the next day was Meskel a holiday which celebrates the finding of the true cross. To complete my hand I bought a one way ticket to Asmara in Eritrea, which takes off at the ungodly hour of 0045, and topped up my Dollars cash as this may be a country ...