Cruising the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea
October 26th 2007 Friday the 26th October and Saturday 27th October were spent exiting the Red Sea through the Strait of Bab el Mandeb (which means Gate of Tears in Arabic) into the Gulf of Aden and cruising with Yemen on our left and Eritrea, Djibouti and Somalia to our right on the Horn of Africa. The Bab-el-Mandeb Strait acts as a strategic link between the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean via the Red Sea and
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