Country Info
- Addis Ababa
- Capital
- Ethiopian Birr (ETB)
- Currency
- 65,891,874
- Population
- ET
- Country Code
Addis Ababa Slideshow
Addis Ababa
Travel Blogs from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Ethiopia and nearly there ...
Arrived safely in Addis Ababa and on time [7.10 am]. Much larger city than I imagined nestled tightly between mountains. I saw the river from the plane Lyn. Its 11 degrees and I'm thankful that I’ve got a few layers on. My first impression is that ...
World Champions and the Entoto mountains
... in Sydney, World Champion gold in 2001 Edmonton, London Marathon win, and bronze medal in Helsinki this year. Here in Ethiopia, Derartu is a goddess. In Nazrit we saw a massive billboard of her (the picture I apparantely supplied!) naming the ...
Ethiopian Excursion
... (Roald and Roland) into adopting us for a week or two. They carted us around the historic north circuit of Ethiopia and all the way to Addis Ababa in their luxurious jeep. We did our bit by sitting in the back and badgering them for more information on ...
Still Alive!
I'm still here, (now in Ethiopia - Addis Ababa - Capital) but internet expensive and slow and not had much opportunity to write the blog, even less to update photos. Did hope here would be better for internet, but holding out for Kenya now (where we set ...
Back in Addis - better update pending!
... too. Now we are staying in an Italiuan-run hostel (bit of a dive, but OK) in an old colonial building near Addis' defunct railway station. It's owner supports AS Roma too, which would not go down well with Giulia and her Lazio-favouring family! ...
Arrival
... on the balcony of my eighth-story hotel room and heard the chanted prayers rise up from the city to join the other choruses of Addis Ababa: the roar of jet engines, the rumbling of trucks, and the barking of dogs. When the prayers finished, even the dogs ...
Addis
Hi from Addis Ababa! Well, it's been a really crazy couple of days - only two days ago I woke up in Cairo, had breakfast and said farewell to Giulia for a month. As you can imgaine, it was exctremely tough to leave Giulia, especially after two ...
Ethiobamamania
... the walls. Unsurprisingly, the most extravagant display of Obama exuberance can be found in the capital city of Addis Ababa, where an eight-story construction project has been christened the Barack Obama Building. A fellow volunteer reported to ...
6-1
... in the row behind me. The World Cup qualifying match between Ethiopia and Mauritania had packed an impressive crowd into the Addis Ababa stadium. A reported 13,000 people were in attendance, and yet we still managed to seat ourselves in front of the ...
Flight 2 Entebbe to Addis Ababa
After spending many hours at the Entebbe Airport I finally caught the plane and fly to Addis Ababa. After an hour on the ground and missing passengers we departed the airport one hour late. Just what I need an extra hour sitting on a ...
Swearing In
... attendance confirmations were received. Attendees included Peace Corps administrators, our pre-service training staff, former PCVs in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Minister of Health, representatives of local non-profit agencies, and press officials, both ...
Departures
... led toward that momentous question: Why are we here?Leading up to our arrival in-country, we heard U.S. officials talk about Ethiopia in the context of "historical friendship" and "a key ally", and we grasped vaguely some of the political reasons behind ...
Fun With Faulty Translations
Fun with poorly translated, imported product labels in Addis Ababa: Shirt series: we always keep the intonation of appearance supremacy of quality and the self nobility are all the distinctions of a modern leader's confidence. Facial cleanser: Nurse ...
Back in the capital
8th August - Was our day in Addis Ababa, and as we weren't sure if it would be one or two days Tracey and I had arranged to meet early to ensure we made it to the Ethnographical Museum. A highly recommended museum in Addis, and the one remaining thing in ...
Addis Abeba
Dear Friends and family We had a nice flight, with a little sleeping. We arrived at 6:00, and after some arrangements took a taxi to the Taitu hotel, which looks depressing, also locate in a depressing area. The driver took us to a "city tour", looking ...
Grinding with Granny and Cold Showers
... climb out of that hole in the ground!! If it wasn't for the coke stop (Time trial be damned) with the coldest Cokes in Ethiopia halfway up (typical they would be found here), I may have sacrificed EFI status to get the better of that devil. However, as I ...
Stopover on the way to Tanzania
... was, she is and will be my guardian angel because that’s how much she saved my sorry ass! Arriving into Terminal 3 to depart to Ethiopia (first leg of the flight) with plenty of time, I was told by the cow at the desk that I could not get on the ...
Breathtaking Scenery
... be desired, so my apologies for how far behind I am, but I will do my best to catch you up!! 21st July we left Addis Ababa clean and sweet smelling! We headed North, once we were out of Addis, the countryside opened up and we were heading into ...
Just for Lucy!
... of this 3.5 million year old fossilized skeleton of the early hominid. It's there in the National Museum of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. Call me a museum freak! Does anyone have any idea about hominids?? They're classified as apes ...
Lucy in the sky with Diamonds...
... famous Artist Laureate Afework Tekle's work. There was one of his which was surrealist, but designed to portray unity and Ethiopia and when i'd read the explanation it was really quite impressive! Then we went down to the basement to see the ...
And Back Again
... around town, to be greeted by name out on the streets, to be told I was missed in the community, even to be told in the curious complimentary fashion of Ethiopia that I was looking SO good and fat after my vacation! It feels good to feel that I ...
Long flights & Addis Ababa
... days in Oakland, I started a series of flights -- SFO->Washington DC->Rome->Addis Ababa. I found out the tour I signed up for in Ethiopia was canceled at some point while I was in Central America...being a natural procrastinator, I ignored ...
Africa Mushrooms, PLC
We found Dr. Dawit Abate early at his office on the campus of Addis Ababa University. After giving him some books and cultures of maitake and reishi, we set out for the biology lab. He told us he would have the maitake growing on agar media before we ...
Exploring Ethiopia
... up to Macchu Pichu in the rain and with an indigenous stomach bug was not enough, I would join David and Nancy for their Ethiopia trek in the Simien mountains. I’m pleased to be able to say that the local staple food, injera, a fermented sour ...
A few days of rest back in Addis Ababa
Thursday we had a long drive through a whole lot of farmland from Bahir Dar to Addis Ababa. The driver and guide bought me my last lunch at a true local restaurant (I don‘t count the ones near the hotel in Addis -- they‘re yummy and all, ...
Update on Turtle nest
Jasper wrote the following: "THIS BIT GOT LOST IN THE HILTON BUSINESS CENTRE". We'll add it later, but the pix are here. Continued: Adopting a Turtle nest. As you heard from another entry, we stayed at Watamu on Kenya's coast. While we were there my ...
Back to blue and white danger
... a speed-governed car. 80 being the max, in kph. Coffee in de Bekele Molla at Lake Langano, foor good times sake. We lived in Ethiopia before and that hotel was a reasonable option for R & R. Then we had good fruit juices and a meal in Mojo, before setting ...
Wouldn't it be funny if we got a free hotel
... an admin error as it didn't mention it on the booking, tickets or any email. We kept quiet. After a wait in the cold (Ethiopia, cold, WHAT!) we arrived at an amazing hotel, had awesome buffet meal, then shown to some executive suite. It had 3 ...
Start of the Rift
Into Gondar, over the rift valley. Some went off to Lalibella, some did the Blue Nile Falls, Lake Tana and helped stop the truck fall off the ...