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Bahar Dar Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Bahar Dar, Ethiopia
A religious experience
This is a top pick! ... to see the different landforms that are here. Again, I've got to get this dry, desolate image of Ethiopia out of my head! We traveled over beautiful mountainous terrain around switchback curves seeing little mountaintop ...
Adventures in Flight IV
This is a top pick! Back in Bahir Dar I awoke early to the sound of prayers and birds. A beautiful sunrise over Lake Tana I couldn't resist taking some photos of fishers in papyrus boats again. Shuffled onto a bus before I could finish my morning coffee ...
to the Garden of Eden
This is a top pick! ... walking through shouting destinations every once in awhile. Before I really understood that this was the system, I thought I heard him call 'Bahar Dar' for the 2nd time, so I indicated that that's where we were going. He looked at me cheekily ...
Lake Tana and the Blue Nile Falls
This is a top pick! ... so how's he meant to know. The problem is not just that one tablet isn't the correct dose. The malaria in Africa, including Ethiopia, is chloroquine resistant. Again, how's he supposed to know? I did tell him that it's not likely to make him better. ...
Bahar Dar
This is a top pick! ... to bump into him like this as it meant that I wouldn't just be hanging around on my own. One of the main attractions of Bahar Dar are the monestaries that are dottied on the islands of Lake Tana, adjacent to the town. So, we organised a trip with a ...
Getting to Lake Tana
This is a top pick! ... that takes many years to perfect. Note: pitching forward into it gets you nil points. And a sore ringing forehead. We arrived in Bahir Dar at 2pm, not bad really. Antoneh refused to take us to the hotel we had decided on (he had my bag on his ...
Break-down in the Blue Nile Gorge
This is a top pick! Day the Third - in which we start moving [albeit in the wrong general direction] only to stop soon thereafter, and Ethiopia becomes a nation of telly addicts. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 26 people were killed on 8th June in Addis. We did get a taxi, at ...
156K south of Bahar Dar
This is a top pick! ... cliff top (brown pant) views, then over the bridge and up the other side. It started getting dark and we were nowhere near Bahar Dar, so we'd need to be stopping somewhere for the evening. After a couple of hours driving I'd worked myself into a semi ...
The Journey Begins - warning, long one
This is a top pick! ... of our "farangi" bags! With 10 people in the car it was a cramped but stunning drive with amazing scenery. Rural Ethiopia was more traditional than we had expected. Nearly the whole way the homes we saw were the cylindrical huts with conical thatched ...
Monastery Hopping on Lake Tana
... in a red Jeep Cherokee (circa 1998, not 2005 as promised by the agency) to start our journey into Northern Ethiopia. The first stop was Bahir Dar, a tiresome but scenic 583km drive from Addis. The trip could have taken us the more typical 9 hours (for a ...
Of Monasteries and Manuscripts
... and the source of the Blue Nile). Upon arrival in the airport, we were greeted by our first sign of Ethiopia's excitement about President Obama (actually, something I'd encountered absolutely everywhere I'd been on this trip) - a giant sign advertising ...
Moving On
Hello everyone and greetings from Ethiopia! Whilst the rest of the world recognises the time here to be 6:00 on the 8th May 2010 Ethiopians claim it's 12:00 on the 1st May 2002, just one example of how crazy this country is… My last couple of weeks ...
Day 32 - Bahar Dar
... Gorge. My first sighting of the river. V picturesque, if it weren't for the diggers and constant fear of death. Bahir (Bahar) Dar means 'watery place'. It is on the shores of Lake Tana so is well named. It is a relatively large ...
Island monasteries
Tuesday, Apr 4 Miles travelled: 65141 A short 20-minute flight brought us to Bahir Dar, on the southern shore of Lake Tana. This is Ethiopia's largest lake and is the source of the Blue Nile River, which provides over 75% of the water in the Nile ...
fond memories
... we said how interesting it would be to visit Ethiopia one day. And here we are, one year later, in Ethiopia driving to Bahir Dar on the southern shores of Lake Tana. Life works in wonderfully mysterious ways. Start: Roha Hotel, Lalibela, ETH. ...
Night 30 - Firote Selam
Firote Selam, near Burie. Bottle of Gondar. Woken at midnight to move the bike. A little worse for ...
My Kingdom For A Shower
... the bill we found that we had been charged for meals that hadn't come. This is not the first time this had happened in Ethiopia, in fact it happened regularly back in Addis. TIA... We eventually sorted out the bill and Jess, Sohette, Sophie and I went ...
Source Nil bleu
Le nil bleu sort du lac tana, donc on place la source du nil bleu ŕ la sortie du lac tana. On a crut longtemps que c'était la source la plus septentrionale du nil, mais les sources du nil blanc sont bien plus au sud. Sinon pas de photo du nil bleu ...
Bahar Dar
... nbsp; One day I took the bus to Tis Abay (Nile that Smokes) a small village about an hour from Bahar Dar. There's a 30 minute hike to the Blue Nile Falls from town. The falls itself are not overly thrilling but ...
Water that Smokes
... bolognese, we headed for Tis Isat (Blue Nile Falls, or "Water that Smokes"). It seems that every cafe/restaurant in Ethiopia serves spaghetti - a holdover from the Italian occupation - much of it better than any I've ever had in New York. The Blue ...
Monastaries On the Lake
Yesterday we arrived in Bahir Dar – a town north of Ethiopia. We flew because domestic flights on Ethiopian Airlines are very cheap. Lake Tana is the largest lake in Ethiopia and is the source of the Blue Nile. This area has a lot of religious ...
The Source of the Nile
... that the hydroelectric plant wasn't diverting water away from the falls today. For lunch we visited the Bahir Dar Hotel, which is apparently the 5th best restaurant in Ethiopia. Oh dear. One of those will be the Sheraton in Addis and I expect the next 3 ...
Bahar Dar
... on the veranda and watched flocks of pelicans soar, skimming just feet above the water. We spent two more days in Bahar Dar. We took walks through the dusty streets and rented heavy bikes to take us into the surrounding countryside. Everywhere we ...
lake tana
... reached airport at 5;30, boarded at 7:30 but then rode the shuttle bus back to the terminal due to bad weather at destination Bahir Dar. Boarded again an hour later and took off, but after 5 minutes we circled back to the airport due to a "minor problem" ...
Bahar Dar
... Hotels ... as they had a guide book!!! As it turned out the 4 of us ended up traveling together on the same route to Bahar Dar and onto Gonder ... at this point we had gotten a guide book of our own ... so technically we weren't following them anymore!!! ...
Qat, cycles and the Blue Nile in Bahir Dar
... 'friend' started to get 'turned on' and started talking about sex, trying to convince me to 'play' with him. He said that in Ethiopia when a man likes a woman he will force her to have him. And if she says 'no' he will 'kick' her. Later after speaking ...
Lake Tana and its ancient monasteries
... On the way, we saw some very bad bus crashes of a few other buses, which seem to occur on a regular basis in Ethiopia... In the late afternoon we arrived in Bahir Dar. In Bahir Dar, I went with an Israeli guy (I met him on the bus) to Lake Tana on a boat ...
Holy Nile water
... , made simple conversation, and simply enjoyed the attention. 3 bus journeys and 6 hours later, we arrived back in Bahir Dar absolutely exhausted, but extremely honoured that we had the chance to visit such a holy place. That night we said our ...
Eating our way through Ethiopia
... that the Ethiopian cuisine has a lot to offer. And didn't we know it, as we found ourselves eating our way through Ethiopia. Before we left Australia, we hadn't experienced many African cuisines and we didn't know too much about Ethiopia food. The only ...