Visiting with my friends here in the states, they said they wanted to see more of the "everyday" life of the locals. So, the photographer that I love to be.. why yes, I have pictures that I have taken while in a car. Some of them are taken by me, some of them are taken by my oldest daughter. But all (other than two that are taken from the top of my roof) are taken from the car as we drove by. So.. enjoy!
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| The beach the locals go to. |
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| A public bus |
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| The row of cars in the middle of the street are parked there. |
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| This type of tents are set up everywhere. They are cooking and serving food. Where the locals go for snacks and their lunch breaks. |
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| You see customers are sitting on their bench. |
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| People walk in the street, even though there is a sidewalk with lots of room. |
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| School just got out. Yes, kids ride in taxi cabs by themselves. |
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| The buses on the right are school buses. |
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| Kids picking up after school snacks. |
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| The blue shack is a Djibouti mini-mart.. however, not all of these shacks have a refrigerator.. so if you buy a Coke, it might be hot. And let me tell you... a hot Coke is not refreshing at all! |
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| This is one of the supermarkets. It is the newest one in town, very expensive. Mostly the French shop here. It even has a pastry stand inside. Very nice. Oh.. and the only place I've been able to find recycling of plastic bottles and soda cans. That is about all you can recycle in Djibouti. |
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| Sunset from my rooftop. |
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| Lantern on my rooftop at Sunset. Can you can hear the Muslim call to prayer in the distance? (Well, imagine you can). |
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| A quiet part of town. |
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| Trash is everywhere. |
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| Mosque tower near the Port of Djibouti. |
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| Downtown |
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| Digging through the trash. |
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| Barbed wires are everywhere. |
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| People live here. |
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| My daughter took this. But, I'm posting to show the water in the street. There are no sewer drains in a city where it rarely rains. |
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| One of MANY khat stands. Khat is a local legal drug. It comes in the form of leaves. Turns teeth red. |
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| The only driving law in Djibouti is "Don't turn right at a red light." If something is in someone's way.. feel free to drive wherever you'd like to get around it. Someone ran into a telephone pole here (see below). I think it might have been a police truck that had the accident. |
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| Dogs are homeless too. Most Djiboutians DO NOT like dogs. So, there are a lot of homeless dogs in the city. |
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| Another view of the beach the locals go to. |
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| The beach the locals go to. On a Friday (their holy day), this place is PACKED. They put up beach volleyball, everyone is in the street.. you can't even drive by (which is why I don't have a picture of it packed yet.) |
Hope you enjoyed these sights of Djibouti. I hope my friend that requested "pictures of the locals" is satisfied.
10:30am in Djibouti, 99 degrees "feels like 105". Hmm.. not too hot yet.
