Notes and Pictures from Djibouti

Jeremy was kind enough to send some photos and notes from Djibouti. Here is what we're missing:

How the other half lives (The Kempinski restaurant/pool). OK, its not really the other half... more like the other .5 %.

The "city" where we ate lunch.

Road trip, Ethiopian style; they don't like it when you take pictures so I had to be sneaky.

This is the president of Djibouti's "Country House." He's up for election in a few weeks and lots of the people here aren't really excited about the idea of him being president again. He's already had two terms and he had the constitution changed so that he could run for a third term. Djibouti is one of those places where the president's family owns pretty much everything in the country.

These are some of our friends we saw while driving out to the border; they like to eat bananas (and pretty much anything you'll give them) but don't make them mad!

This is the local pass time for the vast majority of people in this country; Khat. Khat is a hallucinogenic drug that they grow in Yemen and Ethiopia and they chew in Djibouti, Somalia, and I believe Kenya. The ENTIRE male population chews Khat every day from about 12-4 and the place just closes down during those hours. The little green bunches of leaves you see in the picture are Khat.

This is a picture of the ocean; this is also about an hour outside the city.

These are some houses off the side of the road; this is about an hour outside the city.