Eritrea Things to Do Tips by hunwagner Top 5 Page for this destination

Asmara

Eritrea's capital is its main attraction.
While most African capitals are simply places to get through a quickly as possible, Asmara deserves a special trip in itself.
It is a real gem architecturally, sometimes feeling more like a small, time-wrapped town in Italy than the modern capital of an African nation.
Its climate is pleasantly cool and dry, food and accomodation are both excellent quality and very affordable, and it is about as safe and clean as a place can get.

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Massawa

Eritrea's main port city, Massawa is just a short journey from Asmara yet it feels like a completely different world altogether.
It is a typical, old-fashioned Arab trading port of the sort that is now very, very scarce along the coasts of East Africa and the Arabian peninsula. It is also the gatway to the Dahlak archipelago, easily the most tempting diving and snorkelling destination of the Red Sea.
Note that it is very hot and humid for much of the year, and is also bearing many scars from the wars with Ethiopia.

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Keren

The major town in Western Eritrea, Keren is just a three-hour-long bus-ride away from Asmara yet has a completely different feel to it once again.
Although its centre does retain a collection of low-key, Medirreanean-style buildings, much of the town has a definitely North African feel to it, with camels wandering the streets and Tigre and Bilen women going about in colorful costumes, with their men in baggy trousers and turbans remiscent of Kassala in Sudan. There is a profusion of mosques and a colorful bazar, and the typically African round huts dot the outskirts.

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