Berbera - Old City

Welcome to Berbera, Somaliland's port city on the Gulf of Aden	Telesom Berbera	Somaliland - World AIDS Day 2013	Berbera International Airport
Monument, Berbera Airport	Airplane monument outside the entrance to Berbera International Airport	Monument, Berbera Airport	Berbera Airport has a massive 4,140m (13,582 ft) long runway built by the USSR
Berbera Airport's long runway was used as a Space Shuttle emergency landing site 1980-1991	Entrance to Berbera International Airport	Monument, Berbera Airport	Cranes of the Port of Berbera in the distance
Omaar International Co, Berbera	Al-Najax Restaurant, Berbera	Cigaal Fuel Station & Supermarket, Berbera	ABCO Spare Parts & Nadiif Pharmacy, Berbera
Gol Jano Store	Sahil Shipping Agency, Berbera	Mediterranean Shipping Company, Berbera	Starbucks Coffee Somaliland, Berbera
Nirig Ship, Berbera	Africa Ship, Berbera	Berbera Printing Center	Mataanaha Store, Berbera
Missile Monument, Berbera	18 May - Somaliland National Holiday	Most of Berbera is in disrepair	Esco Hotel, Berbera
"No More Mogdisho..."	H.E. Ahmed Mohamed Mahamoud (Silanyo), the President of the Republic of Somaliland	Edge of the Old City along the harbour, Berbera	Berbera Municipality Head Quarter
Downtown Berbera	A freshly painted building across from the harbor	Old City, Berbera	Harborside Berbera with advertisement for Candidate #318
Crumbling Ottoman building by the harbour, Berbera	Remnants of Ottoman Berbera	Berbera was part of the Ottoman Empire between 1546 and the start of the British Protectorate in 1884	Ottoman building, Old City of Berbera
Ottoman-era arcade, Berbera	Someday, perhaps this will be a thriving tourist area	Ottoman buildings lining the harborfront, Berbera	Artistic decay
Old City of Berbera	Wooden remains atop an Ottoman arcade	What's behind the old door...	Togdher Fishing, Berbera
Small fishing companies occupy many of the old harborside buildings, Berbera	Of course there are no street names, but this is harbour front, on the west side of the old city of Berbera	Waheen Fishing, Berbera	Selling cloth on the street, Berbera
Baabal Mandab Soma-fishing, Berbera	Old City of Berbera, harborside	Waheen Fishing Center, Berbera	Star Fishing and Allaamin Fishing, Berbera
Ruins of an Ottoman building, Berbera	Heading from the harbour to the centre of the Old Town, Berbera	Old City, Berbera	A pair of Somali woman walking through the Old City, Berbera
Old City, Berbera	Street off the main square, Berbera	Ruins in the Old City, Berbera	Ruins in the Old City, Berbera
Quite a fixer-upper project, Berbera	Ruins beyond repair, Berbera	Old City, Berbera	Old City, Berbera
Somali kids in the Old Town, Berbera	Like kids everywhere...Berbera	Fly Emirates or Etihad...Berbera	Old City, Berbera
The Sheep of Justice?	Ruins, Old City of Berbera	Goat among the ruins, Berbera	Ruins, Old City of Berbera
Tin shacks in front of a building with peeling white paint, Berbera	Old City, Berbera	Off the main square in the Old City, Berbera	A speaker on top of this pillar used to broadcast the BBC to the town square
One of the larger Ottoman buildings on the town square, Berbera	Goats on the main square, Berbera	Darole Square, Berbera	Darole Square, Berbera
Mosque to the NE of Darole Square, Berbera	Darole Square, Berbera	Street leading east off the main square	Pile of firewood in front of Bodhari Modern Bakery
Elmi Boodhari, a baker born in 1907, was the most famous 20th C. Somali love poet	The "Father of Love" bakery is still in Elmi Boodhari's family	Inside the Boodhari Bakery, Berbera	Ottoman-era buildings east of Darole Square, Berbera
Old City, Berbera	Ottoman heritage slowly crumbling to ruin	Perhaps surprisingly, there weren't too many animal-drawn carts in Berbera	Ruins of war, or mere neglect?
Does anyone know?	Coral stone used in Ottoman construction	Saazil Super Market, Berbera	Old City, Berbera
Somaliland License Plate, Berbera	Junk yard in the old town, Berbera	I would have loved a decently Somaliland license plate to bring home...but no luck	Respectable building with a tattered shack in front
African Express Airways office, Berbera	Ship monument on the north side of the Old City, Berbera	Ship monument on the north side of the Old City, Berbera	"DHB" container ship monument
Somalilander posing with the ship monument	Container ship monument, Berbera	Container ship monument, Berbera	Container ship monument, Berbera
Somaliland Fair Fishing Project, Berbera	Xeeb Soor Restaurant, Berbera	JANAALE Shop and Money Exchange, Berbera	Late afternoon, Berbera
Small building near the harbour, Berbera	Harborside ruins, Berbera	Again, I don't know if it's a victim of war, or merely neglect	Old City of Berbera, late afternoon
Old City of Berbera, late afternoon	Old City of Berbera, late afternoon	Minaret of the "Modern Mosque", Berbera	Ottoman Ruins, Berbera
Ruins of an Ottoman-era building, Berbera	Maybe these fine old buildings will someday be restored	Young Somali girl in Berbera	Hiding a big smile!
Berbera boy	Kids playing around, Berbera	Shady tree on a street in the old town, Berbera	Mosque in the old city, Berbera
Iskaashatada Mini Bus connecting Berbera, Hargaysa, Boorame, Burco, Wajaale, Gamilay and Laas Caanood	The most impressive Ottoman minaret in old town Berbera	Somali boy in T-mobile Red, Berbera	Three-story Ottoman Minaret, Berbera
Ottoman Minaret, Berbera	Ottoman minaret as the light fades	Domed Mosque, Berbera	Domed Mosque, Berbera
Domed Mosque, Berbera	Maansoor Hotel, Berbera, on the Gulf of Aden east of the city centre, Berbera	...that will have to do...	Kitty at the Maansoor Hotel, Berbera
Not the most inspiring architecture, but good enough	Maansoor Hotel, Berbera	Restaurant at the Maansoor Hotel, Berbera	Dive center at the Maansoor Hotel, Berbera
Safari Tourism Center, Berbera	Ottoman mosque just outside the city center	Ottoman mosque, Berbera	Ottoman mosque, Berbera
The minaret of this Ottoman mosque is similar to the one of the mosque in the old town, Berbera	I would have loved to climb the minaret, but no luck	Door of the Ottoman mosque, Berbera	Interior of the Ottoman mosque, taken from the open doorway
Kids love photos	Somali boy near the Ottoman mosque, Berbera	Two Somalis dressed in white walk past a big old house	The locals told us a large Indian family used to live here
Moon Fishing Company and Ice Factory	Bilkhaur Fishing, Berbera	One of our SPU's posing on some old Ottoman ruins, Berbera	One of our SPU's posing on some old Ottoman ruins, Berbera
Somaliland Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Saahil Regional Office	Jaanale Shop & Money Exchange, Berbera	Somaliland Fair Fishing Project, Berbera	Another meal at Xeeb Soor Restaurant, Berbera
Barbed wire by the Xeeb Soor Restaurant	Karen and Trygve at Xeeb Soor Restaurant	Rice dish, Xeeb Soor Restaurant, Berbera	Spaghetti, legacy of the Italians in Somalia
Lunch time at Xeeb Soor Restaurant, Berbera	Xeeb Soor Restaurant, one of two popular restaurants in Berbera	Laundry day in the old town, Berbera	Al Furqan Store, Berbera
Baabal Mandab Soma-Fishing, Berbera	Truck depot on the edge of Berbera	Starbucks Coffee, Somaliland...does Seattle know?	Sahil Shipping Agency, Berbera
Bomb monument, Berbera	Gulf of Aden coast across from the Maansoor Hotel, Berbera	Gulf of Aden coast across from the Maansoor Hotel, Berbera	Gulf of Aden coast across from the Maansoor Hotel, Berbera
Gulf of Aden coast across from the Maansoor Hotel, Berbera	French Navy patrolling off Berbera - Foudre class amphibious assault ship Siroco (L9012)	US Navy P-3 Orion flying low level offshore from Berbera	Maybe someday a beach resort...
Former Soviet hospital, Berbera	Somali women walking in the street on the edge of Berbera	Monument painted in the colors of the Somaliland flag, Berbera	Shack of wooden planks and rusted sheet metal, Berbera
Berbera stadium painted with an Arsenal player (#10, Jack Wilshere)	Berbera was a base for the Soviet Navy in the 1970s (1972-1977)	Ruins of the former Soviet military hospital of Berbera	Although a ruin, the former Soviet hospital is an active base for the Somaliland military
...as close as we could get...	Camels on the edge of Berbera, Somaliland	Camels in Berbera, Somaliland	Unstriped Ground Squirrel (Xerus rutilus), Berbera-Somaliland
Camel jogging alongside the road between the Maansoor Hotel and Berbera	Camels are a big export for Somaliland to the Arabian peninsula	We wanted to visit the lighthouse at the entrance of the Port of Berbera	Ruins on the peninsula protecting the Port of Berbera
As we approached, the Somaliland army woke up and turned us back...no trip to the lighthouse	Our clever SPUs ran over the remains of a fence giving themselves the second flat tire of the day	Small whitewashed building on the sand spit forming Berbera harbor	Xeeb Soor Restaurant, Berbera
Roadside stall selling Chat (Qat)...but Finland?	Cemetery on the eastern edge of Berbera between the stadium and the hospital	Cemetery in Berbera with graves marked by piles of stone and cinder blocks