I previously had no idea that Eritrea had been an Italian colony part of Mussolini’s “New Roman Empire”, until the planning stages of this trip. It was crazy seeing this mix of old Italian stuff in Africa with such a mash-up of cultures. From Juba, it was through Addis again and on to Asmara, capital…
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South Sudan is the youngest country in the world (independence in 2011) and came out of one of the longest civil wars in history. From Chad, my flight to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia was late, so that meant I had to wait until the next morning, but I actually wasn’t upset by this. 1-I was going…
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Chad. You can’t take pictures on the street here. Maybe that’s not the official answer, but here’s what I figured out beforehand and on arrival. A friend of mine had huge problems while visiting N’Djamena previously and was constantly told that no pictures were allowed. Macron (PM of France) was visiting at the time, so…
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I was both excited and not excited to visit Central African Republic. 1-I’d heard that the airport landing in Bangui was crazy, because there’s no fence, and people are living near the runways, herding goats, etc., and you have to circle around a bunch, until they clear out. 2-There’s tons of interesting stuff in CAR,…
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Bujumbura, Burundi hadn’t originally been part of this trip to Africa. As the situation around Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, has deteriorated, I decided to cut short my time and see just my main focus: the ancient Nubian civilization that had been a contemporary of the Egyptian pharaohs. Khartoum airport, visa on arrival, and another…
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