Small Steps for Eritrea

If you read the potential tourism hype on Eritrea in Travel and Leisure’s September 2004 issue and can’t get the country out the back of your mind, you might want to check out this article. According to Business Report, the country is taking baby steps by building one of the first hotels along the Red Sea coast. Hampered by some of the negative images left from the war with Ethiopia, Eritrea hopes to shake them off, improve roads, offer camel safari’s and boost a number of tourist that surpasses the tiny boom seen in 1996. If Eritrea still ignites your interest look at the LP guide, where they always offer useful info and nifty picture slideshows.