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Travel Blogs from Arba Minch, Ethiopia
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Yetale Abera bet?
This is a top pick! ... southwest 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 ...
Nechisar National Park - bitten by a tsetse fly
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Goodbye to Bradt's bird guide to Ethiopia
This is a top pick! ... headed there. Why is the town idiot invariably lurking around the bus station? The sun came up as we drove away from Arba Minch, setting the fields of maize on fire and glistening off Lake Chamo. The route was all on dirt roads, ...
Blown Shock Again
... is a concept). So summarising we are all pretty dirty, dusty and smelly feeling a little over it by this stage. Ethiopia has almost no infrastructure and hence things like ATMS are a pipe dream. We bought a little Ethiopian money from ...
Arba Minch
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 ...
Shattered Peace & Quiet
Thankfully this is the first civilisation for nearly a week. We have camped in a hotel with a large camping area on the side which was very quiet, infact we are the only ones there. Yeah Yeah!!! This is a blessing as the constant crowds ...
"New York", Ethiopia
... 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, ...
I will kill you
Je suis venu pour les Dorze : un peuple avec ses particularités. Ainsi en Éthiopie tous les 50 kms on change de culture cad de langues, d'architecture, d'habit,... J'ai de la chance car je rencontre mon guide que j'avais pris dans la vallée de ...
Preparation Omo Valley Tour
Le sud de l'Éthiopie est connu pour ses tribus, donc je dois préparer mon tour. Les agences de voyage ont réussis à imposer au gouvernement une interdiction pour les touristes d'utiliser les camions isuzu pour voyager. Hors ils constituent ...
Getting Back to Nature . . .
... 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 ...
Arba Minch - Days 1-2 of 10 day Omo Valley trip
... ' 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 ...
Stop-over in Arba Minch
Arba Minch, which is located at a beautiful location between two rift valley lakes, was just a stop-over on the way from Jinka to Addis. I had some good time trying the chat for the first time (tastes awful though), smoking some shisha, and walking around ...
Fresh raw goat!
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 ...
School & Market Life
... in an American high school as well as discussing what it meant to have Obama as our current president! In most of Ethiopia, students learn English in school at a young age, then in secondary school, most of the major subjects are taught in ...
Southbound
... the green acacia trees, the blue sky, and white clouds. There is also a huge variety of birds here – apparently Ethiopia is a bird watchers paradise. Today we saw these electric blue birds – starlings – we have never seen a ...
Turmi to Arba Minch - Day 8 of 10 Omo Valley Trip
... 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
... 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
... 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 ...
Thorns
... to stab us. Today's ride was mostly downhill and intermittently gravel as we get closer to Kenya. February 25, 2012 Stage 34 Sodo to Arba Minch 103km The Great Rift Valley Arba Minch is a small town with a university on the western edge of the Great Rift ...
Life Beyond Moyale...
Well i left us just managing to roll into Ethiopia. The campsite we rolled into had no running water - as there is a drought about, so we all got drinks, chatted to a couple of very nice locals and contemplated bucket baths the next day (as after 4 days ...
Arba Minch...zebras, hippos and crocodiles
This is a top pick! ... 4 hours, I always seem to get sore. Kind of like road cycling, but I'm not getting any exercise. The trip to Arba Minch takes 7 hours, but I make it just fine. We have dropped in elevation, and the last three hours are very hot, and as ...
Round off!
... , when the whole world counts down to twelve, and wish everyone happy New Year at midnight, except in Ethiopia! In the last week of September I go to Arba Minch for five days. It is a small but large town around 300km from Hawassa south-westwards. After ...
Truck
... iron roofs. 25.02. Hossanna - Bush camp Diarrhea the whole night. took the truck. 26.02 Bush Camp- Arba Minch Truck 27.02 Arba Minch Rest day Diarrhea the whole day. Hotel Shitty, literally. We only had water for the first hour ...
Hippo time
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 (Southern Ethiopia)
... strange sensation to be alone in the back of Athena (almost as if I should not have been there!) I enjoyed mooching around Arba Minch. I felt ordinary and people seemed to be getting on with things. Of course, there were many stares! I wonder ...
Croc's- World's Largest?
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. ...
Give me my money!!
... It’s hard to figure this out, prices are twice if not more than that of lalibela or anywhere else we have stayed in Ethiopia for that matter, yet the village is possibly the worst place we have stayed yet. It seems Americans flying in here to visit ...
In Arba Minch
... soon to be killed for their valuable skins. Day 4: Heading back To Sodo In the morning we paid a quick visit to Arba Minch Teacher training college, were they were not prepared for having us, so the visit was quite unfruitful. But, again we ...
Lounging by the Lakes
... also had a supermarket (of sorts) and internet. Although a little scruffy around the edges I really liked the vibe there. Arba Minch saw us transiting through Shashemene for the final time. Arba is a beautiful town that overlooks the Rift Valley lakes ...
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