Day 2.

After a decent sleep I met up with Jordan again for breakfast just after 8am. Jordan's room was on the eastern side of the hotel and he said he woke up to the sound of automatic gun fire in the direction of the airport!


Looking over to St. Francis Catholic Church and Tripoli harbour and the Mediterranean Sea beyond.


An old Cadillac parked on the street near our hotel. The red graffiti on the wall says "God is greater & Libya’s Dawn".


Just before 9am we met up with Salem and Yousuf again and then drove out to the western side of the city.


We then arrived at our first stop, the Janzur Museum.


Janzur is the site of Punic catacombs dating between the first and the fourth centuries AD. The complex was accidentally discovered in 1958 when a farmer discovered one of the underground tombs.

Inside the small museum that was built over one of the most significant tombs discovered.


Arabic and English text describing some of the recovered antiquities.