Tripoli
Worth seeing in and around Tripoli
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
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Getting to Tripoli
- Airports
- Mitiga (MJI), 9 km · Djerba Zarzis (DJE), 249 km
- Stations
- Mitiga International Airport, 8.6 km · Port of Tripoli, 2 km
- Benina → Tripoli669 km · quickest by air, 4h 18m · $150–230
- Al Albraq → Tripoli2145 km · quickest by air, 8h 58m · €380–590
- Mellita → Tripoli246 km · quickest by air, 4h 46m · $180–270
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tripoli
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tripoli. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThis journey should only be completed in daylight hours as its very dangerous at night, many sheep, camels, cows, and of course shepherds roam the roads in evening and are hard to spot.
- Get inTripoli used to be connected with ferries from Malta and other parts of the Mediterranean.
- Get inHowever, due to decades of isolation and the current turmoil there are as of 2022 no scheduled ferries to Tripoli or anywhere else in Libya.
- Get inFor those intent on travelling by ferry, an option might be to travel to neighboring Tunisia, a country that receives plenty of ferries from ports in Europe, and continue overland.
From Wikivoyage: Tripoli, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Tripoli
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- Fashloomdistrict in Tripoli, Libya1.7 km