Hi Everyone,
I'm back from my trip to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of Dive reports, but I'll tell you why.
First, in Djibouti we felt that everyone there was trying to get as much money as possible for doing as little as possible. We had problems there from the get-go, and Djibouti is realtively expensive since everything there is imported, so we lft for Eritrea as soon as possible.
Second, Eritrea. What a beautiful place! I could have stayed in Massawa for 2 weeks easily, but didn't have the time. Unfortunately for our diving, the president of Libya, Kadhafi was there the same time we were and had most of the port closed off for 2 days. Our only option would have been to go to the outer islands. Since there are only a couple of companies with boats out of Massawa it would have been prohibitively expensive. If we had had a larger group or more money we would have done it in a heart beat.
I will say that independant travel in the horn of Africa is not for sissies. Massawa was great, but, has mentioned has little tourist infrastructure. All the hotels were full, so we ended up camping at the Eritrean Dive Center compound. Everyone there was extremely nice and helpful and they did everything they could to try to get us out diving. I think they were as dissapointed as we were.
I plan to go back to Eritrea and spend about 2 weeks out on the islands exploring. I will probably plan to camp and take everything I need as far as equipment, food, water, etc. with.
If this isn't your cup of tea, there are other options. Live aboards, resorts, etc.
The Eritreans in general were extremely helpful and nice. We were 2 women traveling alone with no place to stay and we had absolutely no problems there, other than the usual minor harrassments.
Let me know if you want more info or if you'd like to see a picture of President Kadhafi!
I'm back from my trip to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti. Unfortunately I don't have a lot of Dive reports, but I'll tell you why.
First, in Djibouti we felt that everyone there was trying to get as much money as possible for doing as little as possible. We had problems there from the get-go, and Djibouti is realtively expensive since everything there is imported, so we lft for Eritrea as soon as possible.
Second, Eritrea. What a beautiful place! I could have stayed in Massawa for 2 weeks easily, but didn't have the time. Unfortunately for our diving, the president of Libya, Kadhafi was there the same time we were and had most of the port closed off for 2 days. Our only option would have been to go to the outer islands. Since there are only a couple of companies with boats out of Massawa it would have been prohibitively expensive. If we had had a larger group or more money we would have done it in a heart beat.
I will say that independant travel in the horn of Africa is not for sissies. Massawa was great, but, has mentioned has little tourist infrastructure. All the hotels were full, so we ended up camping at the Eritrean Dive Center compound. Everyone there was extremely nice and helpful and they did everything they could to try to get us out diving. I think they were as dissapointed as we were.
I plan to go back to Eritrea and spend about 2 weeks out on the islands exploring. I will probably plan to camp and take everything I need as far as equipment, food, water, etc. with.
If this isn't your cup of tea, there are other options. Live aboards, resorts, etc.
The Eritreans in general were extremely helpful and nice. We were 2 women traveling alone with no place to stay and we had absolutely no problems there, other than the usual minor harrassments.
Let me know if you want more info or if you'd like to see a picture of President Kadhafi!
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