Travel Guide Tessenei

Just as Asmara is not a habitual African capital, Tessenei is not a typical border city: it is more interesting than most cities that generally have this status. Not quite Eritrean, or quite Sudanese, the city is a real melting pot and the place before the mosque is certainly the best place to observe it. While it is true that at first sight the city itself is not the most beautiful, that architecture is not worthy of interest and that the stigma of the last war is still visible, the mix of cultures and the Sudanese atmosphere that reigns there make it a place where it is nevertheless pleasant to walk. The city centre is full of small shops of all kinds: bars, restaurants, tailors, cobblers, and the Souk (here called Appelé Al-Shab'a Souk) are the most photogenic! In the middle of the hotel there is a restaurant in the open air where you can sit down at one of the many wooden tables and wait for you to serve from one of the shops that surround it. you will probably be used to it by Ful, one of the best in the country. Just outside the city is a huge market where you literally sell everything and anything, leather shoe laces by way of pottery and petrol. If you want to have an overview of the western Lowlands and the Sudanese mountains, you just have to climb one of the two hills that are north of the city, where the landscape is splendid.At the time of drafting this guide, the border with Sudan is unfortunately not open to foreigners.