The Hill News

In and out of Libya in a day â€" that’s how I spent the last 24 hours.

The whirlwind trip began at Egypt’s Salum border crossing. We left our Egyptian car and driver in the port town, and set off for the crossing in a Libyan car. Only one kilometer separates the Egyptian and Libyan border posts. But getting from one end to the other took us an hour and a half. It seemed odd that we were making so much effort to enter the same country that those around us had risked their lives to exit. 

But after much checking of our passports and questioning of our intent, we said goodbye to our first Libyan car and driver (whose sole purpose, we were told, was to expedite our movement through the crossing), and with our second Libyan car and driver we were off to Tobruk.

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