Posts tagged Djibouti

This picture was taken 33 years ago this month in the port of Djibouti, where Thor Heyerdahl, famous for crossing the Pacific in a balsa-wood raft in 1947, burned his latest watercraft in protest in 1978.  The boat, the Tigris, was made of Mesopotamian marsh reeds woven together in bundles by an international crew of… More →