Country Info
- Addis Ababa
- Capital
- Ethiopian Birr (ETB)
- Currency
- 65,891,874
- Population
- ET
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Bahir Dar
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Sheraton Addis Addis Ababa
196 reviews -
Hilton Addis Ababa
194 reviews -
Dimitri Hotel Addis Ababa
67 reviews
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Wabi-Shebele Hotel Addis Ababa
9 reviews
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Radisson Blu Hotel, Addis Ababa
14 reviews -
Roha Hotel Lalibela
25 reviews
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Hotel de Leopol International Addis Ababa
11 reviews -
Hotel Intercontinental Addis Ababa
61 reviews
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Seven Olives Hotel Lalibela
44 reviews
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Faro Furnished Hotel Addis Ababa
1 review
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Atlas International Hotel Addis Ababa
8 reviews
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Tukul Village Lalibela
86 reviews
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Adot-Tina Hotel Addis Ababa
60 reviews
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Kz Hotel Addis Ababa
26 reviews
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Yemereha Hotel Lalibela
15 reviews -
Addis View Hotel Addis Ababa
12 reviews
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Fogera Hotel Gonder
14 reviews
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Mountain View Hotel Lalibela
92 reviews
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Baro Hotel Addis Ababa
12 reviews
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Jupiter International Hotel Addis Ababa
91 reviews
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Quara Hotel Gonder
18 reviews
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Lal Hotel Lalibela
29 reviews
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Damu Hotel Addis Ababa
23 reviews
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Amanaya Guest House Addis Ababa
4 reviews
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Goha Hotel Gonder
76 reviews
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Harar Ras Hotel
10 reviews
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Dessalegn Hotel Addis Ababa
24 reviews
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Dagim Millenium Hotel Addis Ababa
3 reviews
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Lammergeyer Hotel Gonder
12 reviews
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Belayneh Hotel Harar
7 reviews
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Finfine Restaurant And Hotel Addis Ababa
1 review
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Ras Hotel Addis Ababa
21 reviews
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New Fesica Hotel Gonder
1 review
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Heritage Plaza Hotel Harar
21 reviews
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Ghion Hotel Addis Ababa
76 reviews
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Queens Hotel Gonder
8 reviews
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Swayne's Hotel Arba Minch
38 reviews
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Harmony Hotel Addis Ababa
54 reviews
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Remhai Hotel Aksum
29 reviews
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Bekele Mola Hotel Arba Minch
10 reviews
Bahir Dar
Travel Blogs from Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
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Bahir Dar - Pelican Central
This is a top pick! After about 24 hours and plenty of complementary London Pride on the BA flight I finally made it to Bahir Dar on the edge of Lake Tana. I tried to ignore the burned out plane just off the runway at Addis Ababa. The scenery was fantastic from Addis, a sort ...
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 ...
The Journey Begins - warning, long one
This is a top pick! ... back up. In all the journey took 14 hours to cover just more than 300km of distance as the crow flies. When we arrived in Bahir Dar we were filthy (even though the driver was the only one with an open window and we were furthest back)! But the hour ...
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 ...
Moving On
... but coupled with the sauces it comes with is delicious. After a couple of days in Addis we took the bus north to Bahir Dar, a town on the shores of Lake Tana. The town itself is beautiful, all palm trees, wide boulevards and multicoloured birds ...
Ethiopia 2
... calling! At the moment we are in Bahir Dar at the southern tip of Lake Tana where the Blue Nile originates . Bahir Dar, a service town of 160 000, is a little larger then Gondar. Again, for security reasons we are camping in the ...
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. ...
LAKE TANA MONASTERIES
From Debark took a 5 hour bus ride south to Bahir Dar, a lovely city beside a large lake. Tropical trees line the double asphalted boulevards. The main attraction here are the numerous lake monasteries. Took a boat trip with a ...
Source Nil bleu
Le nil bleu sort du lac tana, donc on place la source du nil bleu à 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 ...
My Kingdom For A Shower
... that happened this evening. Sunday The 3rd of October 2010 We where up at just after six today as Nev and carol wanted to get into Bahir Dar by lunch time. It was nice to wake up to the sound of running water. We left after eating and packing up our ...
The Northern Route
... a dozen monasteries, many of which are only accessible via boat. I decided to visit only the monasteries on islands close to Bahir Dar due to the expense of visiting some of the others located near the middle of the lake. After Timket , one ...
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
... impressive. Helped by the fact 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 ...
lake tana
... 5, 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 ...
Qat, cycles and the Blue Nile in Bahir Dar
... a public bus for 2 short hours, bound for a village called Gashena where we were supposed to catch a connecting bus to Bahir Dar. Passing through a village to pick up more passengers we had yet another adventure. Our bus assistant was attacked by a ...
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 ...
Bahir Dar - The Ethiopian Riviera
... , cattle and donkeys. The second day was a half-day of 61km that was easy and fun with incredible mountain views. We descended into Bahir Dar and arrived before noon and were greeted at the hotel by people who gave each rider a red rose in honour of ...
View from the Public Minibus
... have to grab onto my dreadlocked seatmate's arm to keep from sliding into the dashboard. Accidents are common on the road in Ethiopia, with the highest per capita rate of car fatalities in the world. We pass through a scene of mangled chassis and twisted ...
French Toast - YUM!
... thus far that Bahir Dar and more precisely the Ghion hotel is situated on the shores of Lake Tana, a huge lake in Northern Ethiopia. Bahir Dar is on the Southern Shore of the lake. The guys and Ange had booked with a different local than Peter's contact ...
Skip through Bahir Dar
... we didn't want to take our time out of Ethiopia, so we would leave early the next day for Addis Ababa. The day in Bahir Dar consisted of a juice stop, a trip to the merkato, and after dinner helping the Manager to look at a grant application in exchange ...
Christmas, part 2
... were together in Welliso two weeks ago. With all that said, though, the weekend was not without its stressors. While Bahir Dar is a beautiful place to visit, the constant flow of tourists would make it difficult to establish a permanent identity ...
Viewer discretion: Graphic meat content
... to the Coptic majority. During this time no animal products are to be consumed. For our one dinner between Gondor and Bahir Dar I made Spaghetti Bolognaise with soy protein. Nobody seemed to notice. In fact I talked to several carnivores who were shocked ...
Bahir Dar & Blue Nile Falls
... the real "happy California cow" (because we all know they aren't really in California). In the city of Bahir Dar I saw something I had yet to see in Ethiopia -- a working signal light (I didn't even see one working in Addis Ababa, where they have ...
Castles in Gonder & the Road to Bahir Dar
... quite so much attention in the bigger city...I could actually explore. Later in the day we drove to Bahir Dar,on Lake Tana (the biggest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile). The drive was really pretty, through rice fields and ...
First day in Bahir Dar
This is a top pick! We started the day when we were awakened by the call to prayer from the nearby Mosque. The pension is about a block from it and we are on side of the building closest to the mosque. I have never experienced this before - they do the first ...
a side trip from Bahir Dar
This is a top pick! ... women - very foreign for Ethiopians. It is very odd for them to visit and see men weaving, for example. The trip back to Bahir Dar was interesting. We walked back to the main road and the plan was to flag down a passing bus (or beer ...
Rest day Bahir Dar
Rest was on the cards today, a few of us went to a Lake Resort on Lake Tana where I had a traditional Ethiopian coffee (big deal since I have not had a cup for 15-20 years). We took a cruise on Lake Tana to the source of the Blue Nile and to a little ...
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