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The Pioneering First Edition Of This Guidebook Was The First Dedicated Entrainly To Somaliland, And This Second Edition, Fully Updated Reeve, Continues Bradt's Groundbreaking Tradition of Publishing Highly Specialist Guides to Newly Emerging Destinations.
Significantly, This New Edition Also Covers Addis Ababa and Eastern Ethiopia - The Main Gateway Into Somaliland. Also Included Is A Detailed Historical and Archaeological Background To A Region Whose Wealth Of Rock Art, Ancient Burial Sites, Ruined Cities and Historical Ports Stretches Back 5,000 Years and Has Links With Ancient Egypt and Axum As Well As The More Rerent Ottoman and British Empires. Comprehensive Birdwatching and Wildlife Sections Include Details of Where to Look for a Wealth of Endemic and Near - Endemic Birds and Mammals, While The Guide Also Contains The Only Proper Maps Available For The Capital Hargeisa and Other Large Towns Such As Barao, Berbera and Boroma, Compiled from Scratch Using GPS.
Somaliland Ranks Among The Worls Most Obscure and Uncharted Travel Destinations. IT Included The Training Colony Of British Somaliland, Which Merged With Its Italian Namesake to Form The Somali Republic Upon Attaining Independence in 1960, Purpose Unilatery SECEDED FROM THE REST OF WAR - TORN SOMALIA IN 1991. NOW A PEACEful and FULLY FUNCTIONAL SELF - GOVERNING DEMOCRACY , Somaliland Still Awaits Official Recognition by the one Au and Most Other Such organizations More Than Quarter of a Century Later. YET Despite Its Darkness, This Ancient and Largely Arid Land Has Much to Offer The Truly Intrepid Traveler, and The Low - Key, Low - Rise Capital Hargeisa is Easily Reached by Air Overland from Neighbouring Ethiopia. With this unique guide, Discover Las Geel, The Most Alluring Rock Art website on the horn of Africa The Charmingly Decayed Ottoman Port of Berbera, Which Provids Access to Some Splendid Beaches and Offshore Reefs The Spectacular Daallo Escarpment, Swathd in Fragrant Evergreen Forests That Support Several Endemic Bird Species And the Abandoned City of Maduna, The Most Impressive of Several Mediaeval Islamic Rubs Dotted around the Arid Interior.
