Country Info
- Addis Ababa
- Capital
- Ethiopian Birr (ETB)
- Currency
- 65,891,874
- Population
- ET
- Country Code
Ethiopia Slideshow
Ethiopia
Travel Blogs from Ethiopia
The Best Laid Plans...
... transit passenger and needed a visa for the day into town and would be returning for my flight at 11:30pm tonight. In Ethiopia transit visas are handled by airlines. So they sent me back to Ethiopian airlines. The problem there is that I ...
cows and camels
we spent the night in Kombolcha at sunnyside hotel and next morning we walk around Bati market and its thousand of camels and cows ready to be ...
Gondar
I took a bus up to Gondar, it took something like 4 hours. Means of transport here are terrible, slow and uncomfortable... there are even hens and cocks on the bus! When I arrived I visited the Fasilada castle, it looks like indian architecture, ...
Arrival to Jimma
... couple of them I had met before, then most of the others apparently had heard of me. It was great catching up, orienting them to Ethiopia a bit, and hanging out. It is great to know some other cool people will be here doing some of the same work. To ...
Story so far....
Wow, I never expected to fall so far behind with this blog! Clearly I don't have the patience I had with slow internet connections five years ago! Instead of writing a separate entry for each place that I've been, I'll write just this one; take a look at ...
Night encounter with hyenas and arrival to Aksum
The trip from Debark to Aksum, about 260km, was really a pain in the neck. I was supposed to change bus in Shire and take another bus to Aksum from there. However it took 12 hours in total to reach Shire, most boring bus ride ever! When I arrived in ...
Staying in the capital of Ethiopia
... up that mountain road, I could've stayed there for ages just watching people going about their daily business. So yes, Ethiopia was good." Strengths: -Cheap -Very modern airport -Lots of coffee -Seems quite safe -The countryside surrounding Addis ...
Adventures in Flight II
Pretty similar to the last airport, but with a few more interesting tidbits. Grant gave an American Dollar as a tip to someone who helped with our bags (you have to work very hard NOT to get help whether you want it or not) so as not to ...