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Where can I travel in Eritrea?Author: Amar ShahEritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in Northeast Africa. The east and northeast of the country have an extensive coastline on the Red Sea and she has an estimated population of 5 million people whose official languages are Tigrinya and Arabic and the capital is Asmara. Visitors who check into this small yet adventure full country can make their abode in one of the several good hotels especially in Asmara. Similar standard hotels can be found in Massawa and Assab. It is advisable to book in advance. Meals are available in all hotels. There are also hotels and guest houses in smaller towns whose prices are generally slightly lower than for those in the main centres. When making reservations, check for service charges and sales taxes. Hotel bills must be paid in hard currency known as Nakfa. Credit cards are accepted in major hotels, airlines and major travel agencies. Foreign currencies can be exchanged at the Commercial Bank of Eritrea in Asmara which provides the best exchange rate, private exchange offices and major hotels. Major Banks and hotels in Asmara and Massawa accept traveller’s cheques, US Dollar traveller’s cheques being the most recommended. Don’t hesitate to go out and taste the food and drink in the restaurants. Italian cuisine dominates in larger cities while Massawa is renowned for its excellent seafood, especially prawns and lobster. National specialities include kitcha (thin bread from wheat), injera (a spongy pancake), tsebhi and alicha birsen while national drinks include bun (coffee), shahi (plain tea), swa (beer from local grain) and fruit juices. Get yourself gold and silver jewellery, woodcarvings, leather items, spears, drums, carpets and wicker goods. A certain amount of bargaining is expected in market places but prices in shops are usually fixed. There are so many things you can see and do in Eritrea which has been enabled by internal flights, locomotives on Asmara-Massawa railway line or one can utilise the road by boarding a bus, taxis or car hire. Asmara itself has a magnificent Cathedral, the large Al Khulafa Al Rashiudin mosque, the National Avenue where you meet people and enjoy numerous cafes and bars or the National Museum. In Massawa, visit Baste Island which is a good area for restaurants, cafes. Visitors can take a small boat to Sheikh Island, which is a favourite picnic spot. Tualud has fine examples of Italian architecture, including St. Mariam’s Cathedral while the Port Club has a restaurant, a museum, a small library and sporting facilities. Emberemi is famous for the mausoleums of Sheikh el Amin and Muhammad Ibn Ali. It’s an important pilgrimage site. Go to the beach especially in the city of Asseb which has many pleasant beaches which are ideal locations swimming and sunbathing. Alternatively, the Dahlak Archipelago national park will offer you abundant opportunities for snorkelling and scuba-diving. Summer months (April to August) can have hot temperatures though they drop during winter (December to February) and can be freezing. The short rainy season (March to April) is followed by a longer one from late June to the beginning of September. Travellers are advised against touring border areas with Ethiopia and Sudan which include Tesseney and Afabet. Take note that all foreign nationals (including resident diplomats) are required to have a travel permit to visit other areas outside Asmara. Eritrea also shares with the rest of the Horn of Africa a threat from terrorism. Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/where-can-i-travel-in-eritrea-838706.html About the Author:We cover limo hire London and offer our services to all surrounding areas such as limo hire Harrow, limo">http://www.hire-limo-london.co.uk/limo_hire_london/limousine_borough_of_havering.php">limo hire Havering. |
Holidays In SharmAuthor: Mark BartleyWhen you fly to Egypt to start your holiday, after travelling across miles and miles of sand dunes, your plane starts to approach the coast of the Red Sea and suddenly an unusual sight approaches. As if from nowhere you are faced with a highly modern development of luxury hotels sitting on the shores of golden sand. Sharm really is a unique location. It's almost as if a section of a big city somewhere else has just been picked up and placed here. It is difficult to compare the Sharm skyline with that of other cities though, due to its unique nature. It could be San Francisco but the buildings are much newer. It could be New York but there are no skyscrapers. It could be parts of a modern Spanish city, but Sharm is made up almost entirely of hotels and there are very few office buildings. The new and emerging city of Dubai is perhaps the closest comparison, but again there are differences, because Sharm is a resort developed purely for holidays. So let's start with the sun or the amazing weather that Sharm benefits from. Sunshine is what most people come here for and they are rarely disappointed. Even during the middle of winter Sharm has an average of seven hours of sun each day and because that is about the length of daylight during the winter months, that means sunshine all day long. The same holds for summer too. At this time of year the days and nights are equally long and that usually means plenty of warmth too. During June and July the daytime temperature can reach the high thirties, sometimes even reaching forty degrees Celsius, which means these months may not be the best for family visits. Evening temperatures do reduce slightly but in the summer this drop is limited by the low humidity in this part of the world. The temperature at night can still be in the high twenties, which would make sleeping uncomfortable for those not used to this weather. But thankfully this is a location designed for tourists; conceived and built for people who don't have this type of weather normally, so air conditioning in the hotels is the norm. You may have heard about desert temperatures dropping considerably at night, but in Sharm this is not the case. The warmth absorbed by the Red Sea has a significant impact, acting like a storage heater and preventing cold temperatures at night. Moving onto the sea or, more accurately, the Red Sea. This is a 1400 mile inlet stretching from the Indian Ocean in the South up to Egypt in the North, with Asia, namely Saudi Arabia and Yemen on the Eastern side and Egypt, Sudan and Eritrea bordering the Western side. The prime attraction of this sea, apart from the weather mentioned above, is its suitability for diving. Since it was discovered in the fifties and made famous by the TV programmes of the Frenchman Jacques Cousteau, divers from all over the world have travelled there to dive in the warm waters to observe the plant and animal life and to test their skills on several of the shipwrecks that lie in the waters. Sharm is particularly well suited for divers, with most of the larger hotels running their own diving schools, with on-site instructors providing tuition for everyone from beginners to those training to be instructors themselves. The dive schools also organise day trips to the many dive locations on the peninsula, including wrecks such as the HMS Thistlegorm, the Dunraven and the Carina. The Dunraven is the closest of these wrecks to Sharm, while the others are around 60 Kilometers away. Dive trips to wrecks in this area are normally part of a two day programme from Sharm and some include a night dive at the end of the first day. The ship was sunk by one of two German Heinkel bombers that were on a long-range mission from Crete. The wreck site was discovered again by Jacques Cousteau and many regard it as one of the best wreck dives in the world. Finally there is the sand in Sharm and there is certainly no shortage of that on the inland side of the resort. The Egyptian desert starts almost immediately behind the hotels and continues uninterrupted for up to six miles before the rocky landscape arrives and the ground starts to climb up towards to Mount Sinai, fifty miles to the north. The hotels along the coast in Sharm tend to have their own private beaches which are meticulously maintained. For tourists looking for a relaxing holiday, these are perfect places. You can just lie on the best in the uninterrupted sunshine and enjoy the five-stat service by some of the world's most luxurious hotels. This really is a resort that can provide the ideal beach holiday for most people. Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/interviews-articles/holidays-in-sharm-1254101.html About the Author:Sharm el Sheikh is the perfect place for a sunshine break. Travel writer Mark Bartley describes the resort and offers advice on finding low cost flights to Sharm whatever the time of year. |
The History of EritreaAuthor: Douglas ScottEritrea is located in East Africa, more specifically the Horn of Africa and is bordered on the northeast and east by the Red Sea. Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/travel-articles/the-history-of-eritrea-170061.html About the Author:Douglas Scott works for The Rental Car Hire Specialist. and is a free lance writer for The Eritrea Rental Site
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