Somaliland 12 The Worst Journey We’ve Done?

 Right as the call to prayer started, and our driver went running off to the nearby mosque. By this point we were too tired to want to hang around, so we climbed onto the roof to retrieve our packs and set off to find a cheap hotel so we could crash out for a few hours.

The Worst Journey We’ve Done?

Honestly, no. There’s no denying it was bumpy. It was uncomfortable. The lack of a few hours to nap made it tiring.

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Somaliland 11

 
We saw a few animals along the way, too. Some form of a jackal (we think – the Russian guy insisted it was a hyena, but it definitely wasn’t big enough), a couple of antelopes… nothing too exciting, but still pretty cool to come across them in the middle of the Somaliland desert.

Our 4×4 arrived in Hargeisa at around 5 am the following morning.

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Somaliland 10 Checkpoints

 
There were a few stops along the way, too. The first had options for food and drinks if people wanted, though only our driver got anything at this stop. There were then toilet breaks along the way – a couple seemed the be scheduled stops, and others were just whenever one of us asked for a stop.

Numerous checkpoints were encountered, too. Usually, there would have been a stop overnight to camp for a few hours and sleep, but we had a very impatient Russian group in our car who were… well, rushing… to get to Hargeisa for some reason. So that rest break got skipped.

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Somaliland 9 Banging Our Heads

The journey itself was then pretty much just ten and a half hours of the same thing. Bumping along through the desert under a starry sky, listening to music for the majority of the journey.

And yes, we were definitely being bounced around a lot and banging our heads off the roof of the car a few times. But after changing how we were sitting – slouching down, wedging our knees against the row of seats in front – we could avoid that on all but the biggest bumps.

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