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A Good Time, A Bad Time, A Djibouti Time
A Travel Blog entry by dan-levitan from Djibouti City, Djibouti
... . John and Brian left for Ethiopia while I took a bus back to Djibouti City. I arrived back in Djibouti City late in the afternoon and found a dingy hotel for about $16 per night. The next morning after 3 trips back and forth to immigration I ...
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DJIBOUTI SHAKEN
A Travel Blog entry by hardiek from Djibouti, Djibouti
... be a natural laxative; I'm relaxed. They can't even make a decent cup of coffee here; even Somaliland had that. Djibouti could have used more Italians, less French, but I guess it's too late for that. Sic transit gloria, ...
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Country 2 - Djibouti- an expensive 4 days
A Travel Blog entry by mandy_karl from Djibouti, Djibouti
... ! or your could buy fresh food from the markets outside near loads of souvenier stands. We are staying in a really cheap hotel for Djibouti standards - 20 pounds for room with shared bathroom with a drip of a shower supplemented with a bucket shower. I ...
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DJIBOUTI
A Travel Blog entry by wanderingstar from Djibouti, Djibouti
... or restaurants,ostensibly here to provide for passing sailors,and the French Foreign Legionnaires,who have a desert base and training camp in Djibouti(I was to pass it 11/2 hours on the road to Ethiopia,in a small village,a few days later).There were ...
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Djibouti
A Travel Blog entry by thesunroseclear from Djibouti, Djibouti
... visa (not available in Eritrea) for re-entry to Ethiopia via Sudan. (But next day the Ethiopians said I didn't need another one). Djibouti is a French and Arab (not very African) town. Dry but really really hot. One good thing is that the taxi rides ...
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Djibouti
A Travel Blog entry by vmarchal from Djibouti, Djibouti, 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 ...
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cats and crows
A Travel Blog entry by thesunroseclear from Assab, Eritrea
... , which has just closed until Monday, therefore leave Tuesday. You have probably forgotten, though I have not, that travelling on from Djibouti by land (rather than flying on the Sunday) was supposed to be faster. But don't give up hope: Dani decides ...
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no banana
A Travel Blog entry by thesunroseclear from Assab, Eritrea
... wide streets but virtually no vehicles except yellow shared taxis that loop through every few minutes. The bar of the Kebal International Hotel calls to mind Last Year at Marienbad (though I could be wrong about this one): black and white tiled ...
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un petit coin d'enfer
A Travel Blog entry by thesunroseclear from Eastern ethiopia, Ethiopia
... (still well over 30 degrees), la poussiere, l'obscurite, la jambe de chevre, la faim, la soif, la fatigue. "Le voyage est long et dur," remarks my companion, and no one sees fit to challenge the assessment. We reach Djibouti at 1 am, about 4 hours ...
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speedboat
A Travel Blog entry by thesunroseclear from Obock, Djibouti
... open-air restaurant where you could get fish, spaghetti or a meat dish, and bread. Soft drinks were the same price as in Djibouti. After dark we locked our stuff in the mosque and slept on the beach ("the billion-star hotel"), along with a good ...
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cheating people
A Travel Blog entry by thesunroseclear from Assab, Eritrea
... ? But the woman lent you 100 nakfa [not just credit, he actually borrowed cash to spend elsewhere until he could exchange]. That's unusual, for a hotel-keeper to lend money to a guest. - Cheating people. I have a gold ring I buy in Oman for $40. They ...
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They're Creepy and Djibouti
A Travel Blog entry by dinojay2 from Kigali, Rwanda
... do well male lead and his implausibly strange and hilarious supporting cast, but in fact to a completely different country called Djibouti which is, allegedly, near the Red Sea, shares borders with both Somalia and the possibly fictitious Somaliland, and ...
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FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF RIMBAUD... IN HARAR
A Travel Blog entry by hardiek from Harar, Ethiopia
... its properties. Apparently the Muslim elders haven't outlawed it, just some governments. All the trucks to Djibouti have turned off the highway by now, so the drive becomes quite pleasant. Ethiopia is a big beautiful ...
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busy day
A Travel Blog entry by thesunroseclear from Addis ababa, Ethiopia
... hot. We had another drink and waited out a rainshower. By this time I had decided to go first to Eritrea (via Djibouti) and return to northern Ethiopia (via Sudan), the complication being that Eritrea and Ethiopia are not talking to each other. We ...
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GEORGIA ON MY MIND- BATUMI & TBILISI
A Travel Blog entry by hardiek from Batumi, Georgia
... , so I do that right on the spot, 3 x $100 crisp and ironed and... 2003? Those wouldn't work at all in Djibouti. Freakin' human kindness barely works in Djibouti. The bus finally rolls on through, so we make our way on to Batumi on ...
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I appear to be back in Dover
A Travel Blog entry by dynamo from Port Said, Egypt
... signing off at Mumbai. There are many good rationalisations for choosing this course, rather than riding through the Sudanese desert, lawless Djibouti and the desert of the southern Arabian Peninusla, but the reason for it is that I wanted to ride ...
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Desert oases: Hami and Turpan
A Travel Blog entry by roeby-en-ine from Hami city/Kumul, Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu, China
... Turpan Depression, a dust bowl that is the third lowest exposed place on earth (after the Dead Sea and Lake Assal in Djibouti), the hottest spot in China (just before we arrived in Turpan, temperatures of 48°C/119°F had been measured), and the farthest ...
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ESCAPE TO A CITY CALLED ADDIS
A Travel Blog entry by hardiek from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
... tourists are serviced. It's hard to explain, but I feel it strongly, traveler's intuition I guess. My flight from Djibouti gets in late, so I don't belabor the search for a crib, taking an available cheapie rather than spend time ...
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massawa
A Travel Blog entry by thesunroseclear from Massawa, Eritrea
... rested in the air-con until late afternoon, except for a short walk to find a nice grilled fish for lunch. Since Djibouti I have not seen a fruit or another western tourist, or had a bowel movement (though I'm not necessarily suggesting a three-way ...
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Djibouti Palace Kempinski
Ilot du Heron, P.O. Box 1960, Djibouti, Djibouti
... between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, in a secluded and peaceful setting of palms and bougainvillea. Djibouti Palace Kempinski features a plethora of entertainment amenities, including a fully equipped fitness center, mountain bikes, outdoor swimming ...
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- 97 reviews
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Hotel la Siesta Djibouti
Siesta Beach, Djibouti, Djibouti
Nice hotel located in front of the nicest beach in Djibouti - the hotel was fully renovated in 2005 and re-opened in January 2006. 34 rooms facing the sea with private individual terraces, cable TV, swimming pool, lobby bar, pool bar, night club, Wi-Fi ...
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