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Men and dromedaries in the Dankalia region: a common sight

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For a true sense of emptiness, a travel into the Dankalia region is the best option in Eritrea. Here, you will find endless stretches of barren landscape with very few tiny villages.
It was just before sunset when we reached Iddi, or Edi, a small settlement on the Red Sea. We took a bed each under a thatched roof in one of the semi-open air hotels for less than half a euro, had some local food and slept early. Inevitably, we woke up when the bus for Assab left, its passengers were literally sleeping next to us. As the sun started to give light to Iddi, we were finally able to see where we had arrived. An idyllic place (was that where the name was taken from?) with sandy strets, huts, colourful fishing boats and two small, simple whitewashed earthen mosques. When we reached the larger one, two men appeared in the door opening. They asked us for a pen, disappeared, closed the door behind them, and reappeared after some time. While we were still admiring the structure with its soft corners, so perfectly illuminated by the sun, the two men came out again. One of them wrote 1282 in his hand, and he proudly showed it to us. It was only after some thinking that we concluded that this mosque must have been constructed in that remote year. It only increased our admiration.
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