Arba Minch, Ethiopia Travel Blogs

Yetale Abera bet?
Jun 24, 2005 (3 photos)

... Ethiopia. Lush bright green lined the road thickly for miles and miles. We arrived at the 'lower' part of town, Sikela (Arba Minch is split into 2 parts, Sikela and Shecha, which is up on the hill overlooking the two lakes, Abaya and Chamo). Some ...

Nechisar National Park - bitten by a tsetse fly
Jun 25, 2005 (17 photos)

... opened their wings. Waving your hand close to them caused them to take to the air in clouds. And then back to Arba Minch. What a wonderful morning! We thanked Abera profusely for such a good drive. I think this will be a definite highlight of ...

"New York", Ethiopia
Apr 5, 2009 (91 photos)

... with Endale, Demake, and our friend Hids - we'd met Hids in Lalibela and, just by coincidence, ended up at the same hotel in Arba Minch. We then made our way to the Konso region - about 3 hours south. Our first stop was in a village called Gesergio, also ...

Getting Back to Nature . . .
Apr 3, 2009 (21 photos)

... automatically send you to whatever the newest hotel is in town.) The forest was beautiful and dense - home to the springs for which Arba Minch ("Forty Springs") is named, as well as big vines, good for swinging . . . We then headed for Lake Chamo after ...

Arba Minch - Days 1-2 of 10 day Omo Valley trip
Oct 3, 2005 (5 photos)

... the beautiful Nechizar National Park is nearby and was well worth a visit. It's about a 2 hr drive from Arba Minch. Animals in Ethiopia are generally for eating, not viewing and most had been annihilated until a foreigner bought the land to establish ...

I will kill you
Sep 15, 2009 (6 photos)

Je suis venu pour les Dorze un peuple avec ses particularites. Ainsi en thiopie tous les 50 kms on change de culture cad de langues, d architecture, d habit,...   J ai de la chance car je rencontre par mon guide que j avais pris dans la vallee ...

Turmi to Arba Minch - Day 8 of 10 Omo Valley Trip
Apr 6, 2008

... town. The town is the same sea of mud it was during our outward pass through. Our group collectively decides to push on to Arba Minch since Konso is a muddy mess and we know the Kebele Molla Hotel in Arba has great hot water, delicious chicken salad and ...

Omo Valley
Feb 22, 2009 (28 photos)

... experience I have ever had.  I spent 8 days travelling throuhg the Lower Omo Valley visiting the tribal villages of Ethiopia.  Supposedly only 10% of travellers visit this area.  This could be because of the long arduous journey of dirt ...

The Road South to Arba Minch
Feb 26, 2007 (10 photos)

... an end abruptly when a guard with a gun over his shoulder came over to us telling us to leave unless we paid him a bribe. Arba Minch is a pretty standard small Ethiopian town, with one main street and side streets leading off from it. It's blandness is ...

Hippo time
Dec 13, 2005

I have not much time to enter anything. We're in Arba Minch, a town on an escarpment looking over Nechisar National Park. The park sits between lakes Abaya and Chamo. Today we've seen baboons (as common as squirrels), warthogs, dik-dik (whippet-sized ...

Arba Minch
Feb 19, 2009

Our camp for the next two days is at a hotel in the hills overlooking a massive lake. Mountains rise above us and Maribu storks fill the air. It was another beautiful drive in; unfortunately I was asleep for a lot of it. I managed to let a small family of ...

Croc's- World's Largest?
Jun 20, 2007 (7 photos)

Crocidiles are amazing and these fellah's are one of the largest in the world?  Simply amazing to see and have them swim coming right at you in your boat.

Fresh raw goat!
Feb 21, 2009

I'll spare you the details of the day. It was beautiful, and dinner worked out well. Lets get to the highlight; joining the local crew for a fresh goat feast. A goat was purchased by the local crew from a family who lived close to our camp. A fire was ...

Prize for most revolting hotel?
Nov 2, 2009

... ; After many hours driving bumpily along the sides of various enormous lakes  in the Rift Valley, we arrived at Arba Minch ("Forty Springs").  According to the map, it's a thriving metropolis.  In reality, it does indeed have things ...

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Aug 27, 2007

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