Planning a Trip to Eritrea

Inhabitants are very polite and respectful, especially the elderly who will greet you in the streets with a "buon giorno" in memory of the colonial past. If you speak Italian you will have the oportunity to learn more from the people.
A visit to the vegetable market is a great experience, smell, colors, you can't do without it.
Rent a bike and cycle around the city is the best, you are closer to the people, can stop where and when you want and if you are not the sporty type: the city is almost flat! Bad point is that you will have to breathe the black smoke coming out of the local buses.

Incredible snorkeling! Clean water, beautiful colorful corals, fish of all colors, shape sizes... and no one else !

One of the fewest places left in the Red Sea where you can navigate and find only fishermen...no hotels, no B B, nothing at all: only food ( fish, rice and fruit) and watwer. Experience how magic it can be, travelling with fishermen and sleeping on board! Just get to Asmara and contact fishermen...

Massawa is at the end of everything. At the end of the long road from Asmara to the coast, at the end of Africa, at the end of the desert, at the end of the jety leading to the islands which are the heart of the city. ... and when you stop, at the end of this tiny patch of land, looking across the red sea, you know that facing you there is the Yemen. ... and it is just like a call, inviting you to cross. There is many things in Massawa. It is a world in itself.