Benghazi is Libya's second city, along the coast in the eastern portion of Libya. I spent a couple of quiet days there, wandering through the long market, eating delicious and inexpensive food (including a massive lamburger with a fried egg and hot sauce for less than 75 cents), and enjoying the hospitality of the Libyans I happened upon.
One tip: Stay at the El-Dogal hotel. It's along the sea, the rooms are pleasant enough, and they're much less expensive than similar options in town. Also occupying the hotel while I was there: A cool Indian music group and a group of European basketball players. El-Dogal is the place to be.
Photos of Benghazi:
This next one is an average street in the main part of town.
Benghazi has nice lakes, and a few monuments, and some pleasant places to walk along the sea, but the areas off the main souq -- which are smelly and dirty and wonderful -- are the places to be, as far as I'm concerned. They look more like this.
Not much to look at, but believe me, much more interesting and fun.
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