Quiet and pleasant, Tadjourah (or Tadjoura) is a city with a strong port character, which can be used as a base to explore the surrounding area (the Goda Mountains, Mabla, Obock and Goubet in particular). Tadjourah, today populated by about 45,000 inhabitants, is considered the oldest city in this nomadic country, probably a thousand years old. It has been trading with the Egyptians and Arabs for centuries. Tadjourah (or its name only...) made many adventurers of the 19th and 20th centuries fantasize. Today, the small town keeps a certain charm. Its white and low houses spread out along the gulf to which it gave its name. You will sometimes be overwhelmed by the heat and humidity, taken by the torpor that freezes its population in summer. You will be fascinated by all the images that have fed the clichés about the port cities of the Red Sea: a dromedary grazing on the muddy coastline, a sambouk pulled up on a beach, dark-skinned men with piercing eyes and hips girded with a foutah, laughing and numerous children, a visible and sickly passion for qat, women with light veils and colorful outfits, the horizontality of the houses with blindingly white walls, the omnipresent cattle, colonial vestiges, palm trees... The life which flows there peacefully can appear sweet to the visitor. Twice a day, the arrival of the qat causes a generalized adrenaline rush.The city of 7 mosques. The capital of the sultans of Tadjourah is also known as "the white city" or "the city of seven mosques". If you arrived by sea, the first nickname was already obvious to you. Tadjourah appeared to you as a white line a little blurred, then more and more clear. If you haven't counted the minarets yet, now go and discover the city, to check the number of its mosques. This will not necessarily be easy, as minarets are sometimes very discreet. The oldest mosque is tiny but very visible, on the seafront, with its small blue door. The answer: the seven mosques in question are still there, but an eighth, more modern one has been added.

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Front de mer à Tadjourah. Sophie ROCHERIEUX
Plage les Sables Blancs, proche de Tadjourah. Eyerusalem ABERA
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