Anybody fancy a weekend in Mogadishu?

https://www.cntraveller.com/gallery/24-hours-in-mogadishu

What could possibly go wrong?

 

I'd prefer a holiday in Cambodia...

 

Looks like an upmarket version of Blackpool

 

Enjoyed the article but couldn't help but think:

 

Pol Pot! Pol Pot! PolPotPolPotPolPot!

 

Pyongyang would be good to experience.

 

That would be an interesting episode of four in a bed if they had a nights stay in the peace hotel.

 

Some people get off on this risque tourism. I saw something a couple of years ago where people were going to Chernobyl to get their fix. Potentially being harmed by leftover radiation is apparently fun.

 

Just a burden on security and humanitarian forces. Would be the first to expect evacuation if $hit hit the fan.

 

Are people living in the 80's? Cambodia is one of the world's most desirable travel destinations.

Would start by checking out the best temple complex in the world at Angkor Wat, staying at the incredible Amansara, a converted palace. Being active in the idyllic countryside, when not being blown away by the temples. Then head over to vibrant Phnom Peng staying at the newly opened Rosewood for its views.

Would then have some jungle time at Shinta Mani Wild, reachable by zipline and THE best place to stay in South East Asia right now, begore finishing up with some beach bliss at Somg Saa.

Two weeks would cost north of £20k.

 

I think you’re missing the rather magnificent musical reference…

 

Couple of mates went on one couple of years ago.
They loved it, thought it was great, did say though time spent there was limited in terms of how long there and radiation monitored.
Quite a popular thing apparently

 

God this photo pissed me off:



Sat there with his ****-eating grin, risking the locals’ lives so he can get a ‘coffee and samosa’ and write a blog about it. Especially after he’s just gone on about how much a Western person is at risk of kidnapping and murder and how 24/7 security is needed to leave the hotel.

 

It is mate, and each to their own, I'm not judging. I couldn't remember the term for it to had to google:
'Dark tourism (also Thana tourism (as in Thanatos), black tourism, morbid tourism, or grief tourism) has been defined as tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy.[1] More recently, it was suggested that the concept should also include reasons tourists visit that site, since the site's attributes alone may not make a visitor a "dark tourist".[2] The main attraction to dark locations is their historical value rather than their associations with death and suffering.[2][3] Holocaust tourism contains aspects of both dark tourism and heritage tourism.[4]'

 

The thing is Jam drop, if there is tourism to be had, then it's likely that the tourism board of that country is promoting it for financial purposes and the image of the country, particularly if they are putting on armed guards for said tourists' protection. They must really want the tourists! Otherwise they'd be telling visitors that they're closed for business. It's a strange one. The photo didn't anger me in the slightest, but it does feel a bit distasteful particularly when people are being killed and the guy looks like he's having a great time. But as I said, don't underestimate the role of the tourism board in allowing this to happen.

 

Was going to say Parson Cross ........

 

The "guards" look so unhappy. I hated having an armed escort when we went to Egypt to visit Abu Simbel, it felt really weird.

 

Not sure there's much of a tourism board in Somalia right now. The hotel the " tourists " are staying it was developed for western media, high ranking charity officials etc.

 

Is this guy part of western media or a high-ranking charity official? I don't know so wondering if i've missed something.. It looks to me that this guy is a tourist blogger and therefore Somalia has accommodated him as a tourist. If that is the case then the tourist board will have a part in that because he will have been allowed in on a tourist visa, and therefore they've allowed it to happen. Him smiling on the back of a truck with a bunch of tooled-up soldiers isn't really on him, it's on the country that has allowed him into those zones and, if it is true that he's just a blogger and they have given him protection, it's a bizarre way to operate in my opinion. It would be like letting Logan Paul wander around Vietnam back in the day with a camcorder while the bullets fly and giving him 24-hour security while he's at it. What is there to gain?