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Monday, January 09, 2006

Sheep anyone?

ahh its true!!! people ARE selling sheep in the street.... I drove out of the little alley where the camp is located and headed off to the main road heading up to Tripoli..... only to find the streets mega congested with sheep and people!!!!! There was so much excitement, rush, bargaining and sheep fighting to stuff it in the boot of your car!!!

Anyone interested in buying sheep, I now learnt they cost 270Libyan Dinars which would translate to 201$, however I would recommend a cow from Ethiopia as those turn out to be cheaper, market price being 800 Ethiopian Birr which equals 91$ !!!!

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This is what I find as soon as I come out of the road leading to the Camp



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The street was full of sheep on both sides all the way up to Tripoli!!!!



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Mega traffic!!! following cars full of sheep!!!!

Awsome!!! Although I don't celebrate Eid I could really feel the athmosphere and excitement of it all...... Tripoli was even more congested everyone was shopping!

I met Mark and Aymen (Mark Maltese - Aymen Libyan) infront of the Maltese Embassy, left my car there and we all headed off in Aymen's big pick up to join in the excitement!!! The night ended in a long drive to Aymen's farm in Tajura (a couple of Km east of Tripoli).... which was the most amazing thing i had ever seen!!!

The farm is full of animals..... ostriches.... horses.... sheep.....goats.... chickens.... peacocks... and even a lama!!!!!!

And it was massive!!! just on the sea!!! great!!! We feasted on goat and Libyan salads which his mother made for us, and headed off to Tripoli to my car where I slowly took the long drive to Ghaser Ben Ghashir..... luckily no road blocks..... a girl on her own at 2am driving in Libya could have gotten in a little bit of trouble if caught in a road block.... who cares, it was anyway one of the greatest nights I've had in Libya till now......

posted by Thea at 10:12 AM

7 Comments:

  • Beeeeeeeq!
    :)

    By Blogger Coemgen, at January 09, 2006 8:39 PM  

  • Thea ..that was a nice post , one thing though I always drive on my own coming from weddings at 3am in the morning wearing full libyan regalia gold and always feel very very safe ! I even when to Zawia, Gasr bengasheer and Gharian like that on my own . When I got lost once every one was very helpful and my tyre burst a guy gave me his car to go home and he brought my car later on after he repaired it !! It think one would be pretty safe in Libya still. The only think I would have to fear are those illegal immigrants :) and not all of them mind you as many of them are very decent people trying to make a life.

    By Blogger Highlander, at January 11, 2006 5:32 PM  

  • I noticed on one of the pictures that the car company Toyota was spelt Toyata, is this a common site in Libya?

    By Blogger Tsega Igwebe, at January 20, 2006 10:34 PM  

  • yeah quite common, they are a lot of toyatas around!!! probably libyan verions of toyotas!

    By Blogger Thea, at January 21, 2006 11:52 AM  

  • Those are Japense trucks but are made in China. In order for Toyota and the rest not to ruin their reputation with these chinese made versions, they are named differently. There are so many names given to these cars and usually the names are nothing more than a plastic sticker on the back and some ugly imitation logo in the front.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 03, 2006 4:54 AM  

  • funny!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 11, 2006 4:38 PM  

  • hey im LIBYAN and its really nice to see that other thaen libyans people actually enjoy it.

    tripoli 4 life
    ps at the end of the day its a bloody car.(toyota)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at February 15, 2007 11:24 PM  

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