Travel Guide Syrte

Thanks to its hotel park, the city of Sirte, 402 km from Ajdabya, is the comfortable stop of the journey. You must arrive in Sirte at night, when the abundance of luminaires gives the great avenues the good of a light city. It owes it to Gaddafi, who wished to value the city of which he was attending primary school. He wanted Syrte, a town in his home region, the Gulf of Sirte, the land of Bedouin, which was in history only a desert border between Libya and Cyrenaica, became the capital of Libya. It has become to some extent: some central administrations have their offices in Sirte, and it was in Sirte that Gaddafi welcomed his foreign counterparts most willingly, particularly in major African conferences. It is also necessary to pass through the imposing Congress Palace (one of its large walls, which was used to display the image of a Bedouin with its tent, as a reminder), where the General People's Congress was held and the African Union project was born on 9 September 1999.Sirte abounds in sometimes ancient signs to the glory of the Jamahiriya (a gigantic sign, in Arabic, reproduces the text of the Declaration of the Authority of the Founding People of the «State of the Masses», but often very recent, glorifying on 2 March, the anniversary date of this Declaration, or glorifying the African Union (whose slogans are Arabic, English and French) as well as the action in Africa of Leader Gaddafi. Dormant avenues have the appearance of a gallery to the glory of the regime and its new pan-African directions.Yet this new city is far from totally ghostly. In order to convince you, at night, you only have to take a look at the shopping part of its main Avenue (before it forms a elbow that joins the coastal road to the south-east by passing to the Palais des Congrès and the university) when major fashion stores, wedding gowns, and even a big supermarket brand new., attract the families and the men go to the terraces of cafés and small restaurants of shawarma (next to one of these restaurants side side is the late El-Kasbah pharmacy, which is a perfect English pharmacist).