I'll have been here a month tomorrow and this will have been my first post since the first day. I've had time to settle in, create my routines, learn my way around, and to find some good people to pass the time with, but these last two days have been the first that I've really been able to get off base and see more of Djibouti. It's not a big country (a little smaller than New Hampshire) so you can get around and see lots of it in a day. In the next few days I'll be playing tour guide for a couple visitors, so I had to first be shown how to get around. Today we drove through Arta and W'e'a on the way to Ali Sabiyeh and then back to Green Tire Beach.
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| This is part of Arta which is a town on top of a hill. This is near what's considered the rich neighborhood. |
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| This woman is selling a plant called khat which is a legal drug here. |
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| Camels roam everywhere! |
Here's a dust devil we passed in the desert.
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| The second biggest city in Djibouti is a poor little town. |
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| There aren't any trains running here now. |
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| Goats roam and sleep everywhere! |
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| This is the Djiboutian flag, symbol, and motto. |
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| Driving back on the dirt highway was lots of fun! There's a real highway beside this, but it's in such bad shape that driving on the desert is much faster. |
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| Donkeys are everywhere! |
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| I bet this is the way to Green Tire Beach. |
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| The beach is nothing special. |
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| So we're going out there. |
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| By hiking over this lava flow. |
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| Looking back at the beach from the top. We'll visit that inlet later... |
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| There's a geocache down there, but I'm way too tired to care. |
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| That's the crack of Djibouti...seriously! |
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| The gloves are to protect against all the volcanic rock. |
It's 116 degrees (a new record for this date) and we're out for a hike! It's time to cool off!
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| The water was great! |
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| On the way back...Eyebrawl, what is that in the tree? |
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| It's a goat in a tree! |
