I bring up all these “tough” countries as a preface to my Seychelles blog for a reason. (Yes, this is a MOVING car!) As you can tell, they were not happy I was snapping their photo! This is a great (and quick) read, and I recommend it: Business Insider‘s “The risk of traveling to every country in Africa, according to the US State Department.” So worth skimming through, to give you an idea of the challenges across the continent. State Department currently classifies six African nations as Level 4 “Do Not Travel” and another seven as Level 3 – “Reconsider Travel.” But if I paid attention to those warnings, I’d miss half the world.īy the way, here’s an amazing and super easy-to-digest breakdown of the African countries with warnings from The State Department. Really, the “red” list is never-ending depending on who you ask. There are many more “sketchy” and harder to visit places on the continent, including Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Sudan, etc. > RELATED: The More Balls Than Brains World Tour – My Most Dangerous Trips Just shopping for a giant fish in Mogadishu, Somalia.
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Full disclosure, I actually loved visiting all of the aforementioned countries, Somalia being a place I’d really like to return to someday.Īside from the danger, there is much beauty to be experienced in all of those places I mentioned.
It was a wild 36 hours there, complete with my own armored car and six Kalashnikov-carrying bodyguards. They even employ a network of young kids who act as informants, sending text messages back to base whenever they spot a foreigner in town. Perhaps the tensest travel in my globetrotting career was Mogadishu, Somalia, where bombs go off all over the place, frequently, courtesy of those fun-loving rascals from Al-Shabab. Don’t mind me – I’m just here to look around. Then there’s the downright dangerous places like South Sudan, a country I visited back in 2018, smack dab inside a civil war. If you’re lucky, your hotel will prepare such letter. And many of these nations require an invitation letter from your host – something not easy to get if you’re coming in as a tourist with no local contacts. Dozens of other African nations require visas in advance: You have to physically send in your passport and docs to African embassies in Washington. Getting into Libya was a hassle, but I loved it.Įquatorial Guinea (the only Spanish-speaking African nation) makes it extremely difficult and bureaucratic to get into for most ( Americans exempt, thankfully). Spoiler alert: I’ve never worked for Panasonic a day in my life, nor have I held any job in West Africa. My only way in was through a business visa as employee of Panasonic’s West Africa division. Take Libya, a nation without a unified government, that, until recently, simply did not issue tourist visas. There are 54 of them! But despite the obvious challenges of time, distance and cost, there are a handful of countries in Africa that are either tough to get into as a foreigner, extremely dangerous, or both. It’s an absolute behemoth for someone trying to visit every country on the continent.
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