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Travel to Massawa, visa requirements / Get around / Massawa attractions and sightseeing / City tours / Shopping, Massawa souvenirs / Good restaurants and cheap meals / Massawa nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs. / Hotels, youth hostels, lodging / Get out
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Massawa is a port city in Eritrea.
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Travel to Massawa, visa requirements
Although Massawa has a newly built international airport with a greater capacity than Asmara, no regular international services have begun as of yet so flying in from abroad is out of the question as of March 2007. Domestically Massawa is served by flights on Nasair (local airline) from Asmara and the other port city of Assab a couple if times a week. By road, Massawa is accessible from Djibouti city via Assab (Djibouti-taxi from Djiboutian city of Obock to border town of Moulhoule and on with Eritrean taxi to Assab and further on Eritrean bus to Massawa. Domestically Massawa is connected with the rest of inland Eritrea via Asmara. Buses run many times daily (before dusk) between the capital and Massawa. Minibuses also run as soon as they are full(which takes very little time) between the Asmara bus station and Massawa. Regional buses run from Massawa bus station and around the area a couple of times a week. But other than the long coastal two-day voyage to the other port city of Assab and to the inland via Asmara, there is not much to see beyond Massawa within the region. Massawa also connects to Asmara by narrow gauge rail, but like mentioned earlier, it is not open to any regular service as it is more or less a museum railway with trains still running on a steam engine and only open to chartered tours.
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Get around
Massawa is divided by the mainland neighbourhoods of Hitumlo, Amaterre, Salinas, the islands of Tualud and oldtown Massawa, the Abdelkadir peninsula and finally Gurgusum Beach with the cement factory in between. The only interesting areas of the city for tourists are the two islands connected to eachother and the mainland by causeways and Gurgusum Beach which lies about 13 Kms north of the city towards the airport. The two islands are walkable, but to Gurgusum beach one needs to take a taxi.
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Massawa attractions and sightseeing
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City tours
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Shopping, Massawa souvenirs
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Good restaurants and cheap meals
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Massawa nightlife, bars, clubs and pubs.
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Hotels, youth hostels, lodging
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Get out
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