It had never occurred to me to visit Libya. I thought of it as the fiefdom of Muammar Al-Gaddafi, but Libya is also home to five quite impressive UNESCO world heritage sites. Read more about visiting Libya and those amazing heritage sites.
Why haven’t we heard about this before? If you’re like me, you just kinda assumed that people in the USA were discouraged by our government from going. It turns out that it was Libya that was doing the discouraging.
According to a spokesperson from Libya Expeditions – “There are no U.S. restrictions to traveling to Libya , this was simply a 5 year long diplomatic impasse with the Libyan side not issuing tourist visas for U.S. citizens because of reciprocity issues.”
It seems our government was reluctant to issue visas, and the Libyans retaliated by not issuing them to US citizens. But apparently the rest of the world was welcomed.
That has changed. A trade and investment pact was signed between Libya and the U.S. last Thursday in Tripoli.
Read more about this new development of interest to world-trotting travelers at Examiner.com
I’m ready to sign up for a trip.
What do you think?