We arrive in Asmara on the 27^th of September late at night.

The first days we are going to spend in the capital.

There are some refugees that have returned from Sweden who we are going to meet.

The organization Eritcom are working with help to returning refugees and also the former fighters. They will help us get in contact with the refugees.

Asmara is the only place where you can hire cars so we have to check that out too.

Then we probably take the bus to Keren. Its the second biggest city in Eritrea.

We have faxed to the ministry of education and they have invited us to visit Keren Senior High school. It's quite big with 1800 pupils. We don't know how long we will stay in Keren, it depends on what will happened at the school.

Next is Barentu on the western lowlands. In this town it has been Swedish missionaries since the seventeenth century. We are going to visit a Swedish family, Lemse, who has just arrived here. We might hire a car to get here as we have heard that there are many interesting things to see in the surroundings.

After that we had planned to travel a small road down to the coast that is described to be very beautiful winding down trough forests and plantations. But then we heard that some Belgian tourists where killed here last year, so the area isn't safe.

So we will take the main road back to Asmara and forward to Massawa on the red sea coast.

Here it will be hot and of coarse we want to swim and snorkel in the sea. If we have time and money we will go for a boat trip out to the Denkhalia islands, famous for their wildlife both on land and in sea.

Before we go back to Asmara for the last time it would be very interesting to make a daytrip out in the Denkalia desert. Then we have to have a Landcruiser with driver.

What actually is going to happened we will see. Probably other ideas will turn up while we are there and some of our plans will maybe be impossible.

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