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Gonder Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Gonder, Ethiopia
Castles...in Ethiopia?
This is a top pick! Today has some serious history packed into it. We will be exploring the royal compound (home of King Fasilada), the Debra Berhan Selassie Church, King Fasilada's bath, Empress Metewab's castle complex. Won't go into much detail. If ...
Gonder part 2 - Christmas all over again
This is a top pick! ... and I was spared any further bruising! Met Steven and Nat that evening for a few beers and food. I think I mentioned before that Ethiopia is on a different calendar - well today (Jan 7th) is Christmas day! No turkey and stuffing but went to a ...
Adventures in Flight I
This is a top pick! I am thoroughly enjoying our short little flights in tiny airports here. It's refreshing to see how things can be done differently than the super-high security and formality of NA. Today our passports were checked at the road before even ...
Gonder - Camelot of Africa
This is a top pick! ... and some cool black and white storks with bright orange beaks. Went to a church that was described as one of the treasures of Ethiopia for it's paintings, Debre Barhan Selassi Church. They didn't open when they should have. I arrived and I was alone, I ...
Party Like It's 1999
This is a top pick! ... bed and headed off to sleep again. There was no way I was getting on the bus today. I really am having problems in Ethiopia with my motivation. I'm supposed to be enjoying myself but the long bus journies are overshadowing my trip. The only way I could ...
Gonder
This is a top pick! Hi Guys, You can read our update from Gonder in our entry from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia entitled 'Sudan to Ethiopia'. Cheers, K & ...
Surrounded by Africa’s Camelot in Gonder
... as "Gordon Blue" (Cordon Bleu?) and “Tornado” (Tournedos?), read pretty comically though. Our first visit in Gonder was the Royal Enclosure, the site where various members of the dynasty founded by Emperor Fasiladas (reigned 1632-67) built ...
Colours That Unite
... while we ate, which plunged everyone in complete silence and darkness, and only then were you reminded that you were in Gondar, Ethiopia. Start: Ghion Hotel, Bahir Dar, ETH. 09:08 End: Belegez Pension, Gondar, ETH. 18:00 Distance Traveled: 172 ...
into Sudan's great unknown
What a great experience we've had in Ethiopia. We got our Egyptian and Sudanese visas sans problemes in Addis, got Foxy fixed again (AC is definitely busted, no parts available whatsoever), saw Lalibela's impressive rowk-hewn sites, visited the ...
Night 40 - Gonder
Back to Gonder for a pizza, pick up some last minute supplies/parts and get locked in a bathroom. I had to fashion a screw driver from the shower head to unscrew the door frame. That didn't work so had to unscrew the window frame to escape ...
Going, Going, Gondar
... to why I’d decided to visit Ethiopia and the Simien Mountains in particular. They requested my personal comparisons between Ethiopia and other nations I’d visited on my trip so far. They asked me which room I was staying in, ...
Gondar and plane flight to Lalibela
Alicia- we drove from Bahir Dar to Gondar and the road to our hotel was up a mountain and was being built. We went to see one of the only castles in Africa and the last Emperor kept lions in cages in the castle grounds. Iain -The plane flight was very ...
European castles
Monday, Apr 3 Miles Travelled: 65078 From Lalibela, we flew on to Gonder, which was the seat of Ethiopian power in the 16th century. The "Royal Enclosure" contains well-preserved castles, which look very European as the designs came from the ...
Nice respite, but no water
Strange place, we met up with Greg whom we met at Wim's House of Horrors and had a great evening. Visited the Castles dating from the late 16th century and it was nice and innocent. There was no real controls and we were free to wander around and photo ...
Gonder
... . Described, by someone, as Africa's Camelot, Gonder is home to several castles dating back to the 17th century when Ethiopia was a wealthy nation with caravan routes to the Red Sea. Three wealthy rulers had built palaces in one compound in Gonder. ...
The "Camelot" of Ethiopia
... was the capital in the 1600’s. We spent 2 nights here, and visited the Royal Enclosure and Debra Berhan Selassie Church. I must say, if you find yourself in North Western Ethiopia, Gondar is well worth a visit and we enjoyed our time there. ...
Relaxing on Lake Tana
... 8217;t me), and we saw many small black scorpions, which apparently sting like hell if you get stung. The best improvement of Ethiopia over Sudan besides the landscape is the fact that alcohol is readily available. On the first night at Tim and ...
The Northern Route
... to the expense of visiting some of the others located near the middle of the lake. After Timket , one of Ethiopia's largest religious festivals, the number of tourists visiting this place dwindles making it difficult to find other travelers to share ...
The Mexican Standoff
With the bus still not well, I was up in good time to go over to the mechanics. He wanted me there at 9am when he contacted his mate in Addis to get a price for a seal. That's a rubber part, not the aquatic animal. Bill was expecting a price of a few ...
African Camelot
... on fixing up the bus before we hand it over in under a week. We used the spare time to view the castles of Gonder. A relaxing hour or so but I couldn't help feeling underwhelmed by it. There are similar and better castles in England. After ...
bad road, bad driver
... no sign of a bus. At 7 a truck started up and we agreed to 30 birr each for the 65 km trip to the ancient capital of Gonder. The first 15 km took a couple of hours on a very muddy road, at which point we could have transferred to a bus if we had known ...
Camelote en afrique
Camelote en Afrique, c'est le slogan du ministère du tourisme : à cause du château ayant 5 siècle d'âge. Ce fut la capitale de l'Éthiopie en 1600, car se trouvant à l'intersection de 3 grandes routes de caravanes et surtout car ses environs sont ...
Ethiopia 1
... . The border crossing took two hours, very fast for Africa! We were sad to leave Sudan with its friendly people and safe environment. Ethiopia greeted us with a dirt road all the way to Gondar, where we arrived after dark to camp in the carpark of the ...
Day 34 - Gonder and The Millennium
Again, I'm behind so a quickie. Gonder (Gondar) is the ancient capital of Ethiopia (well, one of them) and is famous for being probably the only place in all of Afria to have European style medieval castles. It all looks quite out of place I have ...
Lake Tana
Tim and Kim's was a great place to wake up too on the banks of Lake Tana. We had an easy breakfast and spent a good few hours swimming in the source of the Blue Nile... What a treat! At around 16:00 we started noticing the Ethiopian tradition of an ...
Castles in the Sand
... will jump in the pool to commemorate the baptism of Jesus. We ended the day with a visit to Debre Berhan Selassie Church, which houses some of the most incredible religious paintings in Ethiopia, including its famous ceiling consisting of 104 ...