Arrival at Mogadishu International Airport, visa processing, meet your guide and transfer to hotel.
After hotel accommodation we will have a safety briefing and go to a Somali restaurant for lunch, where we will try for the first time unusual dishes – camel meat with vegetables and herbs, vegetable stew, puff pastries with veal, local sweets and drinks.
After lunch, we will meet our guards, leave the security area and take a familiarization tour of charming Mogadishu. We will visit the old city, the Cathedral, souvenir shops, Makkah Al Mukarrama Street and the guarded Mogadishu Mall.
Dinner at the hotel.
Today we have the most challenging and intense program ahead of us. We rise at 07.00, have breakfast and hit the road.
We will visit the incredible Hamar Wayne Fish Market where we will see sharks, swordfish, bluefin tuna and marlin, huge turtles and other sea giants. Next on our program: the Monument to the Unknown Soldier, the legendary Italian lighthouse in the port of Mogadishu and the ruined Italian colonial Banadir waterfront.
Many have seen the movie “Black Hawk”, so today you will have the opportunity to see with your own eyes the crash site of a Sikorsky UH-60 helicopter! We’ll also see a tank, in the Bakaro Market area, which has been standing there since the same time. In Somalia, the day is known as “Ranger Day”.
Late lunch at a seafood restaurant located on the white sandy beach of Lido. The freshest lobsters and grilled ocean fish, salads and side dishes, sweets and drinks will be prepared for us here. Everyone will take a swim in the warm Indian Ocean and after lunch we will visit the Peace Park and head to the hotel.
Dinner at the hotel.
We rise at 0900, have breakfast and hit the road.
Today we’ll start at the Money exchange Market, where we’ll see stacks of stacks of disheveled Somali shillings, last issued in 1996. Everyone will be able to exchange $10 for a pack of Somali shillings. After, we will see the October 14 Monument (a memorial to those killed in the October 14, 2017 terrorist attack), get a PCR test at a local lab and head outside the capital city to see wild African flora and fauna. Here we will see herds of donkeys and camels of Somali nomads, after which we will go to relax on the white sandy beach of Jazira.
Back to the hotel for dinner.
We get up at 0700, have breakfast and head to the airport.
