I visited Eritrea this year on board a ship, just before the re-occurance of the brutal war with Ethiopia. We were probably the first cruise ship to have ever visited the country and the welcome was amazing. We visited Mitsiwa, the main port and very much showing the scars of conflict. Many buildings had been reduced to rubble, bullet and shell hole riddled in many others. The locals had cottoned on to the fact that rich americans had arrived and the price of a beer went from a few cents to $5.00. The people were very nice and extremly inquisitive about their visitors but incredible poor. By ...
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