Month: June 2015

I’m now in Dar es Salaam, the largest city in Tanzania. The nine-day journey from Hargesia, when I last posted here, was long and difficult. On my first day (19 June), a taxi and two minibuses brought me from Somaliland to Harar in eastern Ethiopia. After the first of several nights with no hot water, […]

For the past four days, I’ve been in Hargeisa, the capital of the Republic of Somaliland. Somaliland is a self-declared independent state in the northern part of Somalia. The world’s governments and the UN have refused to recognise Somaliland’s declaration of and referendum on independence, because doing so requires admission that the former Somalia is […]

From my last stop in Lalibela, I went to Bahir Dar for four days of relaxation after a fast-paced trip. My next travel section was a marathon – a 12 hour bus ride to Addis Ababa, a few hours for dinner, then ten hours of flying back to London via Istanbul, a connection that I […]

In the weeks since I left Egypt, there have been two terrorist attacks at places I visited – a shooting at the Pyramids on June 3 that killed two guards and a suicide bombing at the temple of Karnak today in which two of the three perpetrators were killed. The intent of the perpetrators seems […]