{"id":267,"date":"2004-05-24T19:52:57","date_gmt":"2004-05-24T19:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=267"},"modified":"2004-05-24T19:52:57","modified_gmt":"2004-05-24T19:52:57","slug":"travel_libya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=267","title":{"rendered":"Travel: Libya?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?q=tbn:0RQKXsAJG54J:www.caravanserai-tours.com\/images\/libya\/acacus5.jpg\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/travel\/la-tr-libya23may23.story\">Susan Spano takes us along<\/a> on a US tour group&#8217;s (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtsobek.com\">Mt. Travel Sobek<\/a>) journey to Libya:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Best of all, Libya, like China in the 1970s, remains largely untouched by the despoiling hand of commercial tourism. There&#8217;s a prevailing air of naivet? and freshness unlike any I&#8217;ve ever felt.<br \/>\nVisitors have been trickling into Libya all along. It received 300,000 foreign tourists last year, mostly Europeans drawn by Libya&#8217;s fabled Roman ruins, considered the best outside Italy, and its sandy Saharan south, which in the last decade has taken the place of strife-torn Algeria as a destination for desert treks.<br \/>\nThen he showed me how to cross the street in Tripoli, where the roads aren&#8217;t divided into lanes, there are no stop signs and vehicles move in herds. <b>You walk out bravely, with a raised hand and index finger pointing heavenward, as if to say, &#8220;Fail to stop at the risk of Allah&#8217;s wrath.&#8221; It worked<\/b>.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Lonely Planet has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lonelyplanet.com\/destinations\/africa\/libya\/\">Libya Travel Guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Susan Spano takes us along on a US tour group&#8217;s (Mt. Travel Sobek) journey to Libya: Best of all, Libya, like China in the 1970s, remains largely untouched by the despoiling hand of commercial tourism. There&#8217;s a prevailing air of naivet? and freshness unlike any I&#8217;ve ever felt. Visitors have been trickling into Libya all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}