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Practical information : Take a break Djibouti
Timetable
In the mornings and evenings, when the temperature is mild, the café terraces are overcrowded. A moment that you won't fail to enjoy as well, at least to soak up the local atmosphere. Bars are usually open until midnight to 2am. Opening days vary from one establishment to another.
Age restrictions
Djiboutians, who are Muslims, do not consume alcohol. However, they tolerate foreigners drinking it, provided they do so relatively discreetly. The sale and delivery of alcoholic beverages is however forbidden in all the districts of the interior of the country and in the popular districts of the capital. However, it is possible to find at least one cold beer in the facilities that welcome foreign visitors
What's very local
Coffee, tea, sodas are the most common drinks, but hotels and some establishments in the capital offer the major brands of European beers and some from Ethiopia, as well as wine and other spirits. As a curiosity, you can taste in Ethiopian restaurants various types of arakie, which can be used as a digestive: honey arakie, coffee arakie, herbal arakie (kosso)... But also Axoumit or Gouder wine, tella (beer made of germinated cereals), tedj (light alcohol, mixture of leaves and honey)