Than I was day alone in Tripoli, went for a walk alone :) and spent some time in the room writing letters, mails and watched TV. Miha had flight to Bengazi where they stayed over night.
That evening I went out with Matej and Blaž. We went to one rather fancy restaurant called Al-Soraya for dinner. I was at first afraid to be bored with them in case they would spoke too much or only about flying, but I had very lovely 3 hours with them :) We ate well and cheap and had a very good laugh. :)
The next day when Miha arrived from flight, we had breakfast together, packed and went to hunt the taxi for LEPTIS MAGNA - an Roman ruins by the city of GHOMES - 130 km East from Tripoli.
We made a good deal for taxi. We agreed that he drives us there, waits there for us and drives us back for 35 €. We've heard that we made a very good deal, coz' other pilots paid around 45-50 € for taxi to there. 
Anyway, we had amazing time in Leptis Magna. About 20% of ruins are to see and it's already huge thing; we walked around for more than 3 hours. Imagine how long you would walk around if 100% ruins would be digged out? 
The drive there and back was interesting. Villages there are hmmm...dirty (though was used to that as well); all houses rather the same with one floor, green (as green is there National colour) and some houses from more rich people have a little of Italian style. 
The "sad" thing is that no-one speaks English. All people know how to say only "How are you?" or "HI" and there their knowladge ends! But it would be usefull for them to know more English...so they could say some words on our way there and back. 
We bought ourself an English - Arab dictionary and learned some things, but of course not enought to have a decent chat. 
But I know now some basic words and numbers which is VERY helpful as well. 
We arrived from Leptis Magna around 6pm, went to supermarket and than went back to hotel where we had dinner and than went to bed. The day was long, but very nice. |
You pics are really nice, I am happy to see them!