One week radiating from Djibouti City
2024
Highlights of the trip
During your stay you can enjoy the following highlights: Culture / Heritage, Faune and flora.
Best times to go
The best time(s) to go is/are : Printemps, Automne, Hiver.
Petit Futé
Where to stay - Djibouti ?
The map of your stay "One week radiating from Djibouti City"
Detail of the stay : One week radiating from Djibouti City
How to get there - Djibouti
Djibouti-City
Steps: Djibouti
Visit of Djibouti-City. The European district and its streets drawn to the cord, its terraces of coffee under arcades. The lively, colorful and fragrant market. At the market, the women's clothes and the music show the diversity of the local population: Afars, Issas, Yemenis, Ethiopians, Eritreans, Indians. Dinner in a Djiboutian restaurant
Musha Islands
Excursion to the Musha Islands, about fifteen kilometers off the capital and about 45 minutes crossing. Swimming in a warm sea, snorkeling or scuba diving in transparent waters and coral gardens, discovery of the mangrove, a forest half-terrestrial, half-marine, essential for wildlife. Fish and seafood on the menu of course
Places of interest : MANGROVES
Djibouti-City
Steps: Loyada
Return to Djibouti and excursion to Doralé, Khor Ambadon, the beaches at 10/20 km from Djibouti-City, or further south, the beaches and the palm grove of Loyada. Return to Djibouti in the late afternoon. Taste the excellent Yemeni fish in a restaurant of the African district
The Goubet
Steps: Ardoukoba
Road to the Goubet, from which one dominates the extraordinary landscape. Walk on the Ardoukoba volcano, born in 1978 and died a week later, and whose eruption opened a fault of 12 km. Black flows of frozen lava, fumaroles. The thickness of the earth's crust here is one of the weakest on the planet. Walk along the side, at the bottom of the Goubet. Night at the rift or Goubet camp
Lake Assal
Steps: Djibouti
Early in the morning, walk on the ice of the lake Assal, located at -57 m under the sea level. Infinite expanse of salt, waters in the whole range of blues. If you are lucky, you may see a salt caravan passing by, which has become rare. Back to Djibouti with a stop in Arta.
Places of interest : CARAVANE DE SEL
Small and large Bara
Steps: Djibouti
On the land side, an hour or two from the capital, you will discover the fascinating desert landscapes of the small and large Bara, whose landscapes contrast with the mountains of the North and the region of the lakes. A well-equipped 4x4 is required. On the sea side, you will be able to explore some scuba diving sites around Djibouti
