Why to visit Cape Guardafui and Cape Hafun Ras Asir, (the most eastern point of African continent)

After long time requests from adventure travelers around the world on visiting The Most Eastern Point of mainland Africa, visit Mogadishu tours and Somalia safari group have decided to extend their tour service to Cape Guardafui and Cape Hafun in Somalia whilst exploring together with group of travelers on 13 October 2022.

The trip was extraordinarily  amazing, full of calm and comfort due to the natural architecture of these destination and Cape Guardafui and Cape Hafun was impeccably beautiful and exotic places where the sand, the sea and rocks consumes every breath of a tourist. One can grasp more on the experiences of those who exotically adventured in aforementioned East Point of Mainland African by a click of the  reviews on our TripAdvisor by these adventure group. For any interested onlooker Visit Mogadishu and Somali Safari tour group remains the most rated tour company as seen and testified by our reviewers who indeed give  reliable and reasonable tour packages as professional way.

Cape Guardafui (Ras Asir,) is a headland in Bari region in Puntland Somalia, it is the second easternmost point on mainland Africa after Cape Hafun where collection island lies including Kalmia Island, Samhah, Darsah Socotra Islands all historically belonging to Somalia before colonial demarcations.

History of Cape is called Spice Port as it was seaport in the Horn of Africa,  The name Guardafui comes from Italian ancient word which means “look and escape” and its really a very highland on the Indian ocean sea.

Guardafui was depicted and disclosed at the beginning of the 1st century CE in the periplus of the Erythraeen sea, beside with other prosperous commercial settlements on the northern Somali coastal.

The early 19^th century Sultan Omsan Mohamed of Majeerteen sultanate signed an agreement with United Kingdom that the British would pay annual supports to protect shipwrecked of British crews and guard wrecks against plunder.

In 1894 Britain surrendered to Italy the territorial sovereignty over the disputed region which habours Cape Guardafui in 1894, while Italy built the on sight  lighthouse after long time of dispute between British and Italy and finally- The Italians in April 1924 established near Toxin Town as the Francesco Crispi Lighthouse cape Guardafui Lighthouse (Ras Asir,).

However, the Lighthouse remains still visible and endured the Somali civil war damages moreover,  the building material was built of concrete stones and thus reinforced its structural strongness especially the famous lighthouse which is nearly one hundred years old.

 the Cape Guardafui is very famous for its frankness, Myrrh, Maydi, Beeyo, Falaxfalax and sweet gum and other good smell that cannot be sufficiently comprehended in words and that is why Egyptian called “the land of Punt”.

What to do in Cape Guardafui?

First of all Guardafui geographically is miracle in itself and that is why British and Italy fought each other for its territorial control, words can’t entirely describe the beauty of  Guardafui spot- its tip and hilly, oceanic serenity surrounded by Indian ocean beaches and offshore marine strait, its look and enclaves are hard to see and a selfie of it is worth a lifetime dream. Furthermore, historic things one will find  includes:, Italian lighthouse, the base of Italian battalion, the arial view to Kamilia and Socotra Islands, one can see fishboats and fishermen as you are diving -if you have diving equipment, you can do swimming in one of the most fresh water if you are good in swimming as well as boat ride in Toxin town.

Cape Hufun is a peninsula or body of water surrounded by ocean in Bari Region of Somalia. It lies along headland Cape Guardafui -the most eastern point of African continent.

Cape Hafun (Ras Hafun) was a home to various ancient structures and fragment. Historically, it was busy seaport for trade route that extends to the length of Indian Ocean edge, trading from Indonesia and Malaysia were using as settlement switch. 

Hafun was an  Italian main seaport for salt, Ivory, Animal Skin, spices, and other things that were aromantic to European  countries and Italy built salt industry in Hafun district, however when Somalia got its independent 1960 it announced Hafun as a district officially.

Things you can see in Cape Hafun.

One can meet Hafun Old district and mingle with local people and you can have a Somali tea with them, as well as paying a visit to the Italian Old Port, and House of the Mayor of Italy. A visitors memory will always get excited by a flashback of the scenery in  Cape Hafun Lighthouse, The salt mountains, The Italian salt industry and lovely beaches that  are too hard to be forgotten in one’s life been embedded in mountains, sand dunes, ocean waves without any bothering.

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