Dawlad,
True story. Trip to Eyl, July, 1967.
The restaurant had one of those alcohol-burning refrigerators to keep the drinks cold. There was a storage shed, still partly in construction, that sold gasoline. I don't know what the other building was.
There were mounds of rocks at spaced intervals all along the skyline at one point in the trip. I think it was between Hamar and Dhuusamareeb. They went on for some distance. Does anyone know what that is?
We stopped on the trip at a balli (sp?) that was covered with grass mats. It had some of the clearest, blue-greenest, sweetest water I have ever tasted.
We were served caano nuug and fried yams the first night by the District Commissioner. The yams grow in and around the water that flows through Eyl, which supprised me. I found a dozen rusting plows abandoned above the cliff. Too bad, since the water going over the cliff would irrigate several thousand acres.