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Eritrea is in East Africa, edging the Red Sea, between Djibouti and Sudan, with a long dubious boundary with Ethiopia. Eritrea is experiencing worldwide attention with Ethiopia and Djibouti. The government is limiting all movement of foreign visitors, including political personnel. It is best to keep away from non-essential travel at this time. Weather: Warm, dry desert band along Red Sea coast; calm and damp in the central highlands (up to 61 cm {24 in} of rainfall annually); semiarid in western hills and lowlands; rainfall heaviest during June-September except in coastal desert. Landscape: At the chief of Ethiopian north-south trending uplands, falling on the east to a coastal desert plain, on the northwest to hilly land and on the southwest to flat-to-rolling plains. Eritrea retained the entire shoreline of Ethiopia along the Red Sea upon declaring independence from Ethiopia in 1993.

Buy: The best mementos to bring from Eritrea are customary handicrafts made from leather, olivewood, clay and straw. These can be found in most memento shops in Asmara along with traditional home-spun cotton garments. Posters and postcards are also readily available at most press-kiosks even at the airport. Costs: Eritrea is universally a very economical place to shop, eat, travel and spend time (Hotel costs distant from the pricy 5-star Intercontinental in Asmara are also very cheap). Study: There are occasionally to go to Eritrea to educate and/or to do a investigate product at the country's institutions of Higher Education and Ministries. But funding must be offered from your home country as well as a clearance from the Embassy of Eritrea either in your country or accredited to your country.

Food: Eritrean cooking in the terrains (around Asmara) consists greatly of spicy dishes very similar to Ethiopian food. The staple is a flat, spongy crepe or bread called injera made from a batter of fermented grains. Spicy stews with meat and vegetables are served on top of it and eaten with the hands. This food is generally found in many restaurants in the country. Drink: The most regular beverage in Eritrea is by far Beer. There is only one (state-owned) brand in the country so there is not much choice, but it is fairly good at that. Beer is consumed cold in Eritrea! This is closely followed by various soft drinks, the most common flavors are as elsewhere in the world: orange flavor, lemon/lime flavor and cola flavor, produced by one of the most recognizable brands in the world.