{"id":10479,"date":"2022-02-13T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2022-02-13T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/?p=10479"},"modified":"2022-07-02T15:04:22","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T15:04:22","slug":"tourists-are-heading-to-somalia-to-see-the-ruins-of-a-two-decade-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/tourists-are-heading-to-somalia-to-see-the-ruins-of-a-two-decade-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourists are heading to Somalia to see the ruins of a two-decade civil  war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a trip to the Puntland region in northeastern Somalia, Christian Matzenauer didn\u2019t know what to expect. After traveling from Dusseldorf, Germany to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia he flew to the Somali city of Bosaso in January, drove along the coast to the towns of Alula and Bareeda, before finally arriving at Tohen.the omicron variety.<\/p>\n<p>There, at the apex where the Horn of Africa meets the Indian Ocean, Matzenauer walked to see the Guardafui lighthouse: a 19-meter tall, abandoned tower built by the Italians during the early 1920s. Guardafui\u2019s lighthouse is also unique in that it features a stone ax blade, a symbol that represented authority in Fascist Italy. Built during Benito Mussolini\u2019s rule, it is one of the last known standing fascist monuments in the world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Somalia\u2019s reputation as a tourist destination with pristine beaches <\/strong><strong>faded after the start of the civil war in 1991.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-10480\" src=\"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/tou1-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/tou1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/tou1-500x300.jpg 500w, https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/tou1.jpg 623w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a trip to the Puntland region in northeastern Somalia, Christian Matzenauer didn\u2019t know what to expect. After traveling from Dusseldorf, Germany to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia he flew to the Somali city of Bosaso in January, drove along the coast to the towns of Alula and Bareeda, before finally arriving at Tohen.the omicron variety. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dalxiiska"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15812,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10479\/revisions\/15812"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/somalimagazine.so\/so\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}