Country Info
- Addis Ababa
- Capital
- Ethiopian Birr (ETB)
- Currency
- 65,891,874
- Population
- ET
- Country Code
Ethiopia Slideshow
Ethiopia
Travel Blogs from Ethiopia
SOUTHERN ETHIOPIA- IT'S HAMER TIME
No, not M C Hammer, of years ago rocker fame, but the Hamer tribe of southern Ethiopia. I joined 2 Brits, and a Brooklyn Yankee for a 10 day adventure south of Addis Ababa right up to the Kenyan border. We visited the Omori, Dasennech, Hamer, ...
Addis Ababa
We rolled into Addis today. A downhill convoy went well. the afternoon was leisurely as we waited for all the riders to gather for the convoy. I read and napped, both things I should do more of. Breakfast was one of the most unusual meals I've eaten ...
my clothes are becoming apprehensive...
... on buses but should be amazing to see such historical sites. I'm starting to realize just how much history a place like Ethiopia has, compared to more Western countries like England, which obviously do have history and, having stopped doing History in ...
Lalibela
... Gonder and Lalibela. We could look down and see the serpentine road hugging the cliff sides. This was the scariest part of Ethiopia from what a New York cabbie had told us in Addis. The drive from the airport followed the curvy bank of a dried up ...
Getting Back to Nature . . .
... some Americans for the first time - as I'd guessed when I first saw them, they were there on a mission - visiting southern Ethiopia and Kenya as part of a church group that has been in the process of translating the Bible into the native tongue of the ...
... Bambini SuperAttak e Pifillo tuttofare...
Giornata tipica lavorativa, fatta eccezione per l'accoglienza sempre più calorosa dei bambini... Oggi erano davvero incredibili: sono arrivate delle bambine addirittura qui a casa nostra e mi hanno preso per mano e trascinato nel loro parco giochi, mi ...
...Caramella Day... (Allawa = caramella)
Questa notte sono riuscita a mettermi sotto il lenzuolo e riposare ad una temperatura accettabile (Fili nemmeno se lo sognava di farlo), peccato che come al solito il sonno si interrompe con l'ululato dei cani e/o lupi che si alternano ai canti degli ...
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 ...
TELL INDIANA JONES THAT..........
I found the "LOST ARK OF THE COVENANT". It is in the sleepy little town of Axum in northern Ethiopia. The air is clean, a wide main paved street with little vehicular traffic but a fair number of donkeys, burros and ...
Retour
C'est une ville que j'aime bien donc petit arrêt d'une journée sur mon chemin vers Nairobi. Et hop de nouveau du poisson cru au petit déj. Ils font aussi de bon jus de fruit, de la pâtisserie,de la cuisine italienne et c'est une ville proprette et ...
All Change!
Our flights arrived from Heathrow and we said goodbye to Lucy who went off for a 13 hour drive to her hospital whilst we waited for our flight to ...
Arbore
Et voici maintenant le peuple arbore. J'ai de la chance, j'arrive en plein mariage. Et mon guide possède un terrain dans ce village. Profitons des festivités. ...
HAIL SELASSIE
Hello from the land of revered former leader Hailie Selassie--Ethiopia. I am presently in a fancy hotel, by my standards (eg $50. +), using my own in room internet connection. Classy furniture, and a shower that also functions as a ...
Awassa
... country people try not to be fat?" Vanity is a luxury unknown to so many. When we arrived, we found another part of Ethiopia that delighted us. We stayed in a government run hotel that was on the banks of Lake Awassa. The large bungalows were ...
Entering Ethiopia
... our campsite for the evening. It was a dump. Literally a garbage dump. Being that we were right on the border of Sudan and Ethiopia there was riff raff abound. Locals were all around our camp, simply watching us, waiting for us to let our guard down, ...
In awe of King Lalibela’s New Jerusalem
... -hungry brothers. During 3 days of deep coma, he received instructions from God to build a New Jerusalem in Ethiopia. He ultimately recovered and immediately began his mission to save his people the hardships and tragedies of the long pilgrimage ...
TIME WARP
... the 13th month has 5 days except every 4 years it has 6. The other oddity aside from the fact that this is Ethiopia's millenium year 2000, is that they start their "zero" hour at sunrise every day while all their time zone neighbours start their ...
Arba Minch - Days 1-2 of 10 day Omo Valley trip
... Nechizar National Park is nearby and was well worth a visit. It's about a 2 hr drive from Arba Minch. Animals in Ethiopia are generally for eating, not viewing and most had been annihilated until a foreigner bought the land to establish Nechizar in ...
Day 15 - Awassa
Breakfasted just 30km outside Dilla. Had a selection of pastries and a teeth-furringly strong Ethiopian coffee, which is served in a shot glass with so much sugar it is unable to dissolve and sits at the bottom of the glass looking menacingly ...
Last afternoon in Addis
We had delivered our report and had a couple of hours free for more sightseeing so we walked up the hill to the Mauseleum where we saw the tombs of Haile Selassie and some of his relatives. Well worth the ...
Gonder to Lalibela and around
Day 31 Once again we were up relatively early for our trip to Lalibela, another once capital of Ethiopia. The roads were initially pretty good, the problem that arose was that at no time what so ever is there a gap between villages and the road in ...
Update from Assayita, northeastern Ethiopia
... even my fire-fighter friend Trevor has not performed a road-side camel rescue! Once in the North-Eastern reaches of Ethiopia, the President of the Afar State has provided one of his drivers and one of his Landcruisers full time for our ...
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 ...
Night 25 - Mieso
Night 25 - Mieso On the way to Harer. Couldn't quite make it due to a) clutch cable breaking and b) Bloody Awash ...
Feasting and Trip Planning in Addis Ababa
... is the remains of the oldest and most complete pre-human skeleton on earth, dating 3.2 million years. East Africa, and Ethiopia most specifically, has long been considered the cradle of humanity, but recent discoveries of 6-7 million years old remains of ...
…ultime ore a Pugnino e arrivo a Gambella
Ed eccoci arrivati all'ultimo velocissimo giorno… Dopo la colazione abbiamo preparato la valigia riempiendola solo degli altri 3 borsoni ormai vuoti e sistemando negli zaini un ultimo e unico cambio di abiti semi-puliti per eventuali intoppi ...