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Attractions In Ethiopia
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Ethiopia
is a country with countless offers as a tourist destination, the most important
and popular attractions are categorized as historical attractions, cultural
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Africa - at last!
Arrived in Addis after an almost empty overnight flight from Paris. According to G-Adventures I was to avoid the yellow cabs and take a blue cab to the hotel. I somehow missed the blue cabs until after I bargained with the yellow cabs and paid 50% more than I should have. Welcome to Ethiopia! Luckily I made it to the hotel in time for a quick …
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Ghion and beyond...
... of traditional Ethiopian music ( I think...since I'm no expert!) and then went back to sleep. Today we visited the National Museum and saw traditional and more modern Ethiopian historical artifacts and art. Saw the throne of the former leader ...
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This is the (Ethiopi-) End
... guide Solomon met us the next day and took us on an abbreviated tour of the capital city, which included a visit to the National Museum. Here we saw "Lucy" the oldest fossil human remains in the world. Unlike modern Ethiopians, she was much shorter than ...
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ABBA A.D.I.D.A.S.
... show me around a little bit, and allow me to get my bearings. I went to a couple of museums with Kris, the National museum was nice enough, it wasn't great. However we then went to the Ethnological museum, that was a blast. It was a fairly sad place, ...
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Ethiopia, who would have thought?!
... Beatles song that was playing when the Leakey's discovered her skeleton - "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds") rests in the National Museum of Ethiopia. Believe what you will about how humans got here, but I'm telling you, 3.2 million years ago, we looked ...
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Misadventures in Ethiopia
... and led us back to the car. We drove down the street only a few kilometres where he dropped us off at the National Museum. We walked around the three levels with curiosity but also anxious to see Lucy. The museum had other interesting exhibits but Lucy ...
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Last few days in Addis
David and I returned to Addis Ababa yesterday and have spent more time walking around the city, plus we went to the National Museum where we saw Lucy, our short little ancestor, along with some other neat fossils and Ethiopian art. Tomorrow we will ...
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13 Months of Sunshine
... woman and a woman from the British Museum who was in Addis to train the Ethiopians and Kenyans with respect to their own national museums. Of course on the next day, the foiling continued, as our taxi driver seemed to be driving around in circles and ...
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Addis Ababa
... palace of deposed Emperor Haille Selasse who was assasinated by his military successor here in 1969. It is now a primitive national museum housing among other things his throne, plus random archaeological artifacts, and the famous bones of "Lucy" ...
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Sightseeing in Addis Ababa
Three of us went on a sightseeing trip around Addis. It was a bright sunny warm day as usual. We started at the National Museum which had been a residence of the late Emperor Haile Selassie. We saw his bedroom and bathroom and the Empress' quarters. ...
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Feasting and Trip Planning in Addis Ababa
... complete, we spent the balance of the afternoon visiting the one obligatory item on our docket for Addis Ababa – visiting our Aunt Lucy at the National Museum. Named after the Beatles song, “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,” which played ...
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