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
Into Her Hands
Addis Ababa, the Earth's center. Customs was a breeze. It was as if they were hurrying us into the country. We found Maurice an hour after we cleared immigration. He was sporting French braids, but otherwise hadn't changed a bit. He helped us get a ...
Backward
... it three times already. It takes 3 and a half years reading a chapter a day. We got a nice taste of modern Addis Ababa exploring the Bole area. Everyone uses public transportation. It's cheap, quick, and reliable. We tried some Ethiopian pizza and ...
This is Ethiopia.
We took a 5 hour flight from Doha to Nairobi, and after a short stop-over was in Addis Ababa 2 hours later. We weren’t expected to arrive in Ethiopia for another couple days, but we decided we had seen enough of Doha (there wasn’t really ...
Home to the USA
This is a top pick! Hi all, Well, I've been home for over a month, just got all of the pictures uploaded to the site. Hope you enjoy. I'll do some tweaking to the blog over the next couple of ...
Timkat-Day 2
This is a top pick! ... ve intentionaly not drank too much of anything, there are no public restrooms to be had. Port-O-Lets have not yet arrived in Ethiopia. Besides, who would foot the bill? I watch the festivities for an hour or so. For the first time on ...
Rest day Addis Ababa
... a few hours chatting to them. A few of my questions of why the kids are so unruly were answered, basically inflation in Ethiopia has jumped significantly in recent years and wages have not, the gap between the rich and poor has grown, the middle class ...
Visa Extension... and a Pick Pocket Attempt!
This is a top pick! ... the Piazza District. What the hotel lacks is more then compensated for in being located in the older main district of Addis Ababa....lots of shops, activity...feels vibrant! The Ethiopian government has changed the rules for tourist visas, a 90 day ...
Chilling at home with the family
2 Christmases in one year life is good! After a big celebration at Denman with the cousins we had a small Chesterman Christmas at home in mid ...
we have arrived!
This is a top pick! ... that for awhile and we will fill you in later on the reason. Guesses are welcomed. UPDATED: Our evening in Addis was very fun. We went to a tradtional restaurant - Fasika where they serve Ethiopian food and have traditional ...
Gorge Camp to Addis Ababa
... uneventful and the rural villages seem to be the problem places so there were fewer incidents the remainder of the ride. The convoy into Addis was a 13km descent, into the camp site, collected our bags and off to a hotel, showered (which is a luxury these ...
Almost leaving for home
This is a top pick! I've traveled to Debre Zeyit primarily because of the extra week I have in Ethiopia. At this point in the trip I've accomplished what I had planned to do through out the entire country, just a little faster then I had planned. Debre Zeyit is ...
Perfect day in Ethiopia
... a foreign place. Kind of a way to make it feel more like home! Ok back to the story... So I arrived to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Thursday morning at 6:30 am, and found Richard pretty quickly. He had arrived at 3:45 am and had waited on ...
Running on Churchill Ave & 'Street Gym'
This is a top pick! Last night when eating dinner, a mid 20's Ethiopian couple, Youhanis and Solome, started a conversation with me. I commented to them they both looked very fit and strong. They inform me they enjoy running and going to the gym, and invite me ...
... it's been a while
... December always sounded so far away. I wanted to go to Zanzibar for the holidays, but I think I'm just going to stick in Ethiopia, and save my money for Tanzania in March when my internship is officially over. My energy is draining out of me, but I'm ...
I'll have my cake and eat it too
So it is 10:30 pm in Addis Abeba Ethiopia, in Kebele 13 off the street Debrezeit- I think that's how you spell it, and I'm sitting in our dimmed living room trying to capture a word which expresses the last 9 days. And the best word I think would be- ...
Katie's Back
This is really really short... just to say that Katie's back, and it's really really great to have company in the house. Makes my talking to myself seem a lot less weird. And we had a little gathering at our house for her "home coming". : ) see ...
and the race is ON!!!
... I'll put up shortly, and it was so nice. It's amazing to see how little it takes to feel in the countryside in Addis. I mean, Entoto is considered part of Addis and yet, it looks so crazy different. It's lined with Eukalyptus trees which were imported ...
the world goes upside down and rightside up again
... I can help her find funding to come do her masters in the UK, US or Canada. She really will have a lot to contribute to Ethiopia... and has a ton of potential. I met Rahel, Rachel and Abigail (recent arrival of 4 days) at the Milk house before we ...
Timkat Festival in Addis
This is a top pick! ... Orthodox holidays. It celebrates the baptism of Jesus, Timkat means 'immersion'. In most of Ethiopia it is a two day festival, but in Addis a third day is added. With the aid of information gathered from an article from the Ethiopian ...
Almost Back To Canada
... necessary. KMG's most promising acheivements are reducing the rate of Female Genital Excision in Kembatta (350 km. South of Addis Ababa) from 100% to nearly 10%. The organization is phenomenal, unfortunately the work is tough, time consuming and ...
CNA rearranged
... . I am basically in charge of layout and am helping them compile articles. Anyone who knows any nurses or interested in Nursing in Ethiopia is welcome to write a letter to VON so that we have some ˇ§Letters to the Editorˇ¨. On Tuesday I spent the ...
teacher! miss!
... - you never get what you expect- lasagna is never really lasagna :)- and this was an amazing surprise. Yes I got a recent graduate of Addis Ababa School of Nursing but she was also a mother of four children who was just finishing her second Bachelor's in ...
The official warning
... to this country. (IDW7) Sporadic and unpredictable clashes between protestors and police and military units have occurred throughout Addis over the past couple of days. Security forces have responded with live ammunition and tear gas to groups armed ...
Carole's final entry
This is a top pick! ... I am sure. Yesterday we visited the fabulous ethnological museum here. It is housed on the campus of The University of Addis Ababa in what was formerly the official palace of Emperor Haile Selassie, the last reigning Emperor of Ethiopia. The ...
... the aftermath of indian food
... lives! and this... I'm finding is costly. We just applied to the Equinet Student grant and are managing to work with Addis Ababa University to get a student to take the project to one rural setting... but we don't have that money yet... Anyhow... on ...
Eid Mubarak :)
... to spend it all alone, unable to move around my house. So I went to talk to Teleale, and apparently every muslim from Addis gathers at Stadium for prayers and celebration. Stadium is just that- a stadium, but near it is the largest intersection I've ...
The Excitement!!
... heard. So many are frustrated with the fact that no one is listening to them. I'm looking into getting a bunch of galleries in Addis to maybe donate space/time/ supplies to help us in this endeavour. I feel so much more at home with something like this ...
... it's changing...
... went to the great Korean restaurant, where I had some fabulous miso soup and tempura. It was such a luxury... but anyone who comes to visit Addis will have to go there- it's a gem. This morning I got myself to the gym by 6:30 and went for a run before ...