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From Harar we drove to the border with Somaliland, which we'd been warned could be a little chaotic.  We started badly as the guides didn't realise that a few people standing beside the road just before the Ethiopia exit barrier were there to check luggage, so we re-entered Ethiopia from no-man's-land to get our luggage searched.  Well, apart from me, who somehow got overlooked, but everyone else had to put their bag on the ground to be opened and given a cursory search.  Then back around the barrier to walk across the short stretch of lawless no-man's-land until we could enter Somaliland.  We'd been told to hold tightly onto our possessions and not engage with any of the 'helpers' who would offer to carry our luggage across for us, and we all did as we'd been told.  But this didn't stop one man running up to one of our group to try to steal her shoulder bag - he didn't get it, so snatched her hat from her head and ran off with that! Thankfully f...