Country Info
- Addis Ababa
- Capital
- Ethiopian Birr (ETB)
- Currency
- 65,891,874
- Population
- ET
- Country Code
Ethiopia Slideshow
Top Hotels in Debre Markos
-
Lc Sheraton Addis Addis Ababa
162 reviews -
Addis Ababa Hilton
159 reviews -
Dimitri Hotel Addis Ababa
60 reviews -
Hotel de Leopol International Addis Ababa
9 reviews -
Radisson Blu Hotel, Addis Ababa
2 reviews
-
Summerland Hotel Bahar Dar
27 reviews
-
Lion Hotel Addis Ababa
2 reviews
-
Hotel Intercontinental Addis Ababa
50 reviews
-
Jerusalem Guest House Lalibela
34 reviews
-
Faro Furnished Hotel Addis Ababa
1 review
-
Atlas International Hotel Addis Ababa
8 reviews
-
Roha Hotel Lalibela
24 reviews
-
Adot-Tina Hotel Addis Ababa
56 reviews
-
Kz Hotel Addis Ababa
24 reviews
-
Seven Olives Hotel Lalibela
40 reviews
-
Baro Hotel Addis Ababa
11 reviews
-
Addis View Hotel Addis Ababa
12 reviews
-
Lal Hotel Woldia Addis Ababa
3 reviews
-
Tukul Village Lalibela
66 reviews
-
Damu Hotel Addis Ababa
21 reviews
-
Jupiter International Hotel Addis Ababa
81 reviews
-
Fogera Hotel Gonder
13 reviews
-
Yemereha Hotel Lalibela
13 reviews -
Dessalegn Hotel Addis Ababa
22 reviews
-
Amanaya Guest House Addis Ababa
4 reviews
-
Quara Hotel Gonder
15 reviews
-
Mountain View Hotel Lalibela
74 reviews
-
Finfine Restaurant And Hotel Addis Ababa
1 review
-
Dagim Millenium Hotel Addis Ababa
3 reviews
-
Goha Hotel Gonder
63 reviews
-
Lal Hotel Lalibela
27 reviews
-
Ghion Hotel Addis Ababa
66 reviews
-
Ras Hotel Addis Ababa
18 reviews
-
Lammergeyer Hotel Gonder
11 reviews
-
Harar Ras Hotel
8 reviews
-
New Fesica Hotel Gonder
1 review
-
Belayneh Hotel Harar
5 reviews
-
National Hotel Addis Ababa
9 reviews
-
Harmony Hotel Addis Ababa
39 reviews
-
Queens Hotel Gonder
5 reviews
Debre Markos
Travel Blogs from Debre Markos, Ethiopia
Sort by Newest Best first
Break-down in the Blue Nile Gorge
This is a top pick! ... kerosene. Apart from melting anything we put down, it also smelt horrible. We passed on an early dinner and decided to push on to Debre Markos instead of staying the night. We also took the opportunity to use the toilet, since the rule of thumb is to go ...
Colorful Characters
Today's entry begins in a slightly unorthodox fashion with the moral of the story: Be careful what you wish for. Every venture outside our little living compound inevitably yields a new situation to process, a new challenge to face, a new town ...
One for the Road?
"Hello, beautiful, do you need a boyfriend?" "No thanks, I already have one." "One for the ...
Size and Length
"Yes, I think you have grown very fat! I think, as you adjust to life here, you will only continue to increase your size...and maybe even your length!" (Fittingly, this was said to me by a man whose name in Amharic means, "Liar." I hope he's right, ...
Market
This morning, KB and I accompanied my landlady to experience our first Saturday market. The local market runs every day except Sunday, but on Saturdays countless people from all of the surrounding villages and countryside stream into town, hauling straw ...
Amharic and the Future
In Amharic, the national language of Ethiopia, the future is seemingly an afterthought. In regard to time, there exists one major tense division, between the past and the present. Future actions are described, then, merely through the provision of ...
Walk in the Countryside
This morning, KB and I walked into the countryside with my landlady, who volunteered to help us get fair prices on some food items we wanted to buy. We walked along the road leading northwest out of town until asphalt gave way to dirt. As we strolled ...
An Unexpected Visitor and a Visit to School
It was about a month ago that an unexpected visitor appeared on my doorstep. I was just sitting down to quiet Saturday morning breakfast when I heard a knock on my front door. Somewhat reluctantly tearing myself away from a stack of warm banana pancakes ...
Challenges
... presence, while enabling noble results in the short run, leads me to wonder about the long run. What will this do for Ethiopia's future? Will it provide the means by which a vibrant country and a proud people will lift themselves out of poverty, or will ...
Donation
We visited a school today that had recently benefited from five new classrooms gifted by a German donor couple. The missionary couple who provided the funds specified that the classrooms must be used only in the instruction of blind students. There are ...
Catharsis
This entry should probably just be called "Catharsis." Perhaps, though, I can also rightly subtitle it "The Dark Side of International Volunteerism." So, here we go. Christen's Catharsis: The Dark Side of International Volunteerism Since the ...
Olympic Excitement
... occasionally, the name sparks association with fine coffee. Often, it sparks nothing at all. Once every four years, however, Ethiopia has a chance to shine brightly on the world stage for a distinction that is undeniably worthy and universally commanding ...
The Slump Month
... by the departure of six more volunteers (four by choice, two four medical reasons), reducing our current numbers to just 30. Ethiopia had a mixed showing in world news. Four Olympic golds and the restoration of the ancient Axum obelisk to its rightful ...
Home Again, Home Anew
... the true extent my friends' love for me when the girls, half-jokingly, began offering tampons - an extremely rare commodity in Ethiopia - to stop the torrent of blood flowing from my nostrils. In the end, there was no permanent damage (apart from blood ...
Routines
... you? Are you fine? Is it good? Is it selam [peace]? How is Debremarkos? Have you adjusted? The weather condition, does it suit you? Ethiopia, how do you see it? How is work? How are you? Are you fine?) We laugh off the postman's daily request that we take ...
Odds and Ends
Some odds and ends: "EasyMac", when one does not have a microwave, becomes merely "NormalMac". Indeed, if the exhortations printed on each packet are to be believed ("Made for the microwave. Just adding boiling water will not cook macaroni."), it ...
Introductions
... began in the same way as all my dialogues with English-speaking Ethiopians, with him asking me, "How do you get Ethiopia?" I gave my usual answer about Ethiopia being a beautiful country with very hospitable people, and then I added a bit about its ...
Christmas, part 3
... all joy in his lifetime, so he continued to do so after his death as truly the tastiest chicken I have eaten in Ethiopia. The compound was bustling with people for the Christmas holiday, with the renter's fiancée and my landlady's three youngest sons ...
Valentine's Day
The soft glow of candlelight graces the room, waxing and waning as the flame flickers gently in the evening breeze that wafts in from the serenity outside. The air is laced with the sweet scent of eucalyptus. Magnificent chords swell forth from the ...
New Year and New Arrivals
The American new year began with new life - six of them, in fact. My landlady's younger dog had its first litter of six tiny little puppies, five black and one white with two black spots on his back. The puppies have not been the only recent addition ...
Christmas
... TBS's traditional marathon). I wore my Santa hat around the house like an idiot (thanks again to Suzanne and Bonnie). Ethiopia was even willing to help us out a little bit in our quest for American-style holiday celebration. Santa brought running ...
Track Champions
... (at least, what's left of it) had failed to qualify for the competition. In the world of distance running, however, Ethiopia reigns supreme. I was having dinner in a local hotel with some friends on the Saturday night when Meseret Defar and Melelech ...
A New Phase
My Peace Corps experience has entered into a new phase in two major aspects. First, I am living (mostly) alone, for the first time in my life. Peace Corps has finally been able to secure a house for KB, and she moved across town on Wednesday - a story in ...
A "Typical" Day
... of my daily life can be attributed to unfamiliar cultural elements. Business is simply done a little differently here. I brought with me to Ethiopia a small blue planner covering the years 2008 and 2009, which I had planned to use in writing down all my ...
Special Needs Education
... she wants to be the best teacher she possibly can be. It is determination and drive like this that shines great hope for Ethiopia's future. I only hope that I can find a way to equip this determination and drive to better accomplish the noble ends that it ...
Cultural Frustrations
... social contracts dictate a very different dynamic to the interpersonal interactions making up everyday life. As a consumer in Ethiopia, for example, the absence of America's high degree of commercial competition, ease of price comparisons, accessibility ...
Timiket
Today marked the Ethiopian celebration of Timket (Epiphany). The festivities began over at KB's house with her landlord's family moving all their furniture out of the house and into the renters' quarters they will occupy during KB's stay. Generously, ...
Water, part 2
KB and I were sitting together in the living room, I writing, she organizing some photos on her laptop, Rosie Thomas singing sweetly into the evening from her place in KB's ITunes repertoire, when all of a sudden I put down my journal and pen, sat up in ...
Corruption
... of the socialist-inspired Military Coordinating Committee known as the Derg), and higher levels of foreign investment. When asked about Ethiopia's biggest obstacle to greater benefits, he highlighted corruption. When I asked for examples, he gave two, one ...
First Journey to Site
... . Even in the early morning, the bus station yard was already crawling with people. Buses traveling to destinations all over Ethiopia cleared their ways through a pulsing sea of people to line themselves up in one of four constantly shifting rows. As each ...
Sort by Newest Best first