khor ambado beach

I was here on Business and after a long day in the heat, it was very nice to put on the mask and fins and get in the water, the reefs were amazing with the variety of fish,octopus and eel. this beach was the best part of the trip.

After 10 km of 4x4 road you can Access on the beatch. The sand is yellow, the water is clear without pollution. Many european people come there, and few djiboutian people after 17h00. You can swim and snorke easly

The beach is excellent for Djibouti. Sand and reasonable clean. The road to the place is, however, terrible and you will need a 4WD car with high ground clearance. It's a fun drive, but you'll need the 4WD! Not joking or over exaggerating! There are beach chairs and shades to rent and a couple of restaurants. The choice of food is limited to my knowledge and bringing your own food is a better choice. Check out the road on Google Earth or similar before you go. The hard part is to find the beginning of the road just after the houses after the Doraleh roundabout. Once you find the access road it is pretty straight forward.

Though it is nicknamed "French Beach", this is a place where many different nationalities converge, even if it is occupied by a lot of military personnel. On the day we went, there were US, German, Japanese, and British military all enjoying a relaxing day at the beach. Bring your own food and beverages and you'll be set.As others have said, the approach road is horrific, and after the rains in March 2013, it was made even worse.There is a shipwreck off the coast for snorkeling, you just have to be mindful of the tides and the coral reef along the way.I will say that the area is cleaner now than in 2007-2008 when I last visited.

The beach is lovely and peaceful, snorkeling not that good, the access road to the beach is getting worse and worse, luckily we were driving a rental car. I might not go back because of the bas quality of the road.

You need a 4WD vehicle to get there though I've seen some locals in a mini-bus/van and even a taxi. I thinks It's about ten to fifteen miles from Djibouti City with about the last four miles rough road. But it's all worth it once you enter the beach, just be careful not to get stuck on the soft sand. The water's clear, fish and corals abound, there's even a boat wreck about a 50 yards from the shore. During low tides, you can practically walk into it. We usually bring our own food/drinks here though you can order from some of the restaurants in there. They usually charge you 500 francs/person. We usually hang out here on the weekends because you can practically have the beach to yourselves here, though you can see some locals and foreigners once in awhile.

Ten Kms from down town but only accessible via a rough dirt road, must take a four wheel drive, this is the best beach with white sands. No restaurants or hotels there so you must take your own. There is a small joint selling cold drinks but that is all.

It´s also called French beach because all french militaries based in Djibouti choose this beach to take their families. Take the road near Doraleh and Arta and it will end at this beautiful beach in the waters of Tadjoura Bay, there is alowed to wear bathsuits, in the downtown beach women must cover all the body, even foreigners.Go to this beach in a 4x4 vehicle to avoid getting stuck in the sand.

Good snorkeling, easy swim out to the reef, good visibility, saw Octopus, Blue Spotted Rays, Eels, tons of tropical fish. The beach is not bad, several small "locally run" restaurants. Go to the one on the far right (can't remember the name) and give the owner about 500 Djibouti francs per person and he will set you up in a nice private cabana, and brought several orders of french fries out to us for free. He was also very good at keeping away any "local kids" that initially made an effort to come our way to beg. Make sure to bring beach chairs, as the only chairs there are plastic upright chairs.

Very Nice beach. About 40 minutes drive from Djibouti Town.The beach is long, with white sand. Some small restaurants, or you can bring your own food. You can snorkel. There are plenty of fishes to sea.

First, I have little ocean experience and my only snorkeling before Djibouti was off the coast of Florida and there wasn't much to see. But to me, Khor Ambado seems gorgeous. Idyllic. Perfect.Khor Ambado, like numerous other beaches around the Gulf of Tadjoura, is a never crowded expanse of perfect white sand bordered by black basalt, with an arch of almost never rough water. There's a drop-off to a gorgeous reef just forty feet off the beach. It's like swimming in Finding Nemo.Khor Ambado is never busy, though it is a favorite beach of the local French population because it's only about a 45-minute 4wd trip out of Djibouti City. The road is rough, and you are likely to be accosted by vagrant children. I think there is a restaurant at Khor Ambado but I've never gotten close enough to that end of the beach to tell. It's always best to take your own food and drinks and just plan that there are no facilities.When the water is clear, the snorkeling off the beach is absolutely stunning. But low tide is a challenge because coral grows right up to the limit of the tide, and it is also overgrown with kelp plants. So at low tide, getting out to the reef is a bit of a challenge because one has to thread through thick knots of seaweed over sometimes stinging coral. My husband tells me there are abundant rock fish. I've also seen some huge sea anemones.Djibouti is a remote country, expensive to get to and obscenely hot from April through September. But if you are interested in gorgeous beaches and amazing snorkeling, it is a good destination -- especially in the winter months.

plage quasi déserte à l'exception de quatre paillotes qui vous proposeront des menus simples mais très bons.La plage est très propre, et l'accès peut se faite par la route ou la mer.

La plus belle expérience sous marine du monde. Nul part ailleurs vous pourrez admirer des coraux naturels et non altérés. Les requins passent et les légionnaires leur tire la queue. Les tortues volent en plein Goubet et il sera difficile de les suivre. Le poisson corail est impressionnant par le bruit qu'il émet en croquant les arches de fleurs aquatiques. Sous cette l'attitude l'eau atteint la température corporelle, on transpire sous l'eau à 35 degrés. Expérience sans comparaison du fait de l'isolement et de la traversés du désert. C'est en quelque sorte la ROLEX de l'Aventurier africain.

molto bella. Difficile arrivarci. Munirsi di fuoristrada di buon livello. Non ci sono servizi sulla spiaggia ed è molto poco frequentata proprio perchè difficilmente raggiungibile. A circa 50 metri dalla spiaggia c'è la barriera corallina stupenda e piena di pesci multicolore. attenzione all'escursione tra la bassa marea e l'alta marea. Non è il mediterraneo, qui è di circa 2 metri.

Una normale spiaggia con una modesta sistemazione di gazebo e sedie. Molto particolare la scogliera piena di fossili marini!!!! Da vedere e non riprovare.