ACTIVITY THAT CAN BE DONE ONCE BACK FROM A WALK IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
HIKING RICH IN CONTRASTS AND IDYLLIC ENCOUNTERS
If you don’t mind getting sunburned, why not take a grandiose hike through lands that have fascinated artists and adventurers! Like Henri de Monfreid, Joseph Kessel, Arthur Rimbaud… Set off on the route of the old salt caravans, the Abbé lake and hot springs, the immense salt lake of Assal, at the foot of ancient volcanoes, or in the Goda Mountains, or even the primary forest of Day, sheltering the Djibouti francolin and the leopard.
Breathtaking landscapes! Djibouti is the ideal destination in the heart of adventure for all those who are eager to contemplate the beauty of the lunar landscapes resulting from the particular tectonics of the region… etc.
IN THE WAKE OF THE SALT CARAVAN
Reliving the adventure with the oldest salt trade route, while walking alongside camels loaded with white gold is a must: a hike, a trek with camels on the ancient nomadic path, and revealing a setting sublime all along the rift. A long concession walk that will leave you speechless, and which will fill you with incredible sensations. A test of humility and humanism of a route during which you will have the chance to perpetuate the ancestral traditions of the salt road.
AN EXCEPTIONAL GOLF CLUB
Founded decades ago, the Douda Golf Club is a green in Brown (mixture of sand and oil), and 6000m long par 72, with thorns as a marker for the holes. An extraordinary golf club.
An atypical course interspersed with dry wadis beds, ravines, bordered with sandy red and punctuated by numerous bunkers. The area is cool and windswept and is located 4 km from Djibouti International Airport.
SPECIFIC ORNITHOLOGICAL OBSERVATION
In addition to its unusual landscapes, its intact seabed, the Seven Brothers Islands and the Strait of Bab-el-Mandeb are a veritable migration corridor for several hundred thousand birds which can allow for detailed ornithological observation. More than 399 species are listed there, all statuses combined.
Professional photographers, or amateurs with sensitive shots, you can travel through this welcoming territory with your camera slung to meet these species without ever being disappointed.
CHAR A SAILING, AN INVITATION TO ADVENTURE
The Republic of Djibouti is a country made for Adventure… Henry de Monfreid, Arthur Rimbaud, or even Cousteau could not resist the attraction of this thousand-year-old land… Why not you too? Why not experience during your stay the same intense feeling of being at the end of the world, in these extreme and strange territories, by indulging in sand yachting in the middle of the Grand Bara desert, an exceptional site of 10 km wide, and 30 km long.
Do not hesitate to join the sand yachting center of Grand Bara, a vast expanse, overwhelmed by the heat, and traversed by winds and whirlpools of sand, and which invites you to adventure.
The 15 km cross of Grand Bara
Every year, athletes come to compete in a 15 km cross organized by the French army, so that a large number of tourists are surprised by their choice to join this marathon in the desert, rather than try sand yachting. or undertake a trek . Whatever the choice, we are more than ever seized by this immensity, and the Grand Bara cross country is the only moment to taunt by taking up this challenge. arid and you may be fooled by the mirages that the heat draws on the horizon.
