Albergo Italia Asmara

... la journee de la carriere, au palais, mausolee, musee et site a obelisque.<br><br>Bien sur le site a ete christianise et comme par hasard on trouve l eglise de Zion qui contient l arche d alliance. Impossible a voir de visu (ni meme la replique) sinon une malediction s abattra (celui qui ouvre se voit bruler les mains).<br>

... t access the old church (men only) which is located adjacent to the small building which is said to contain the Ark of the Covenant (only one monk has access to its specific location and is charged with the duty of guarding it until his death), we were lucky to witness a beautiful Lenten procession taking place around the new church. After a tour of the new one-room museum located at the church, which houses a number of crowns, robes and other Ethiopian royal ...

... 18, took all the locals free on my expense. Nevermind: there is not transportation there, you go 25km on a new paved road, then 5km to the village. There is a temple aged 7800BC - Yemanic style. That all. What is important is,again, the way: people working in fields(vulcanic fertile soil), view dotted with green bushes, and - strange amazing rocks all around. Fantastic. Afternoon: back to the archology museum. I have many frinds in this hotel: An Italian ...

... Ethiopia. This area has high tourism potential but as with so many places in Ethiopia totally lacks infrastructure. We were quite pleased that we made it to the town of Abi Aday at 5.00 PM only to be turned away at 3 different hotels! So we decided to camp in the bush again and at the last minute before dark (6.30 PM) we found a beautiful spot on a hill and spend a quiet night. We left early and reached Adwa at around 9.30 AM, Axum was only 20 km away so we continued and had ...

... Etiopien som en verdensmagt med en sofistikeret civilisation. Et bevis er der kæmpestore steler, hvor af en forsat står og en anden er ved at blive genrejst af italinerne, der har haft den "lånt" i nogle årtiere. Man mener, at der gemmer sig rigtig mange skatte i jorden. Et godt bud er at kun 2% er gravet ud. Så området burde være en drøm for arkæologer.Dersværre har det for øjeblikket ingen prioritet hos den etiopiske regering ...

... Not in addition to the one that he had, but a replacement. We have had American money refused before and I think he was worried it wouldn't be worth anything. We tried to reassure him that the money was good and that we didn't have any more, but he was quite disappointed. Even the banks won't take currency dated before 1999. Make sure when you travel that you have nice, new, crisp bills! Funny, since they take the oldest and rattiest Birr I've ever seen ...

... us in strange places, so now we have a lovely collection! Queen of Sheba's palace and bath were less than exciting, but mostly because there was so little left. Her palace looked more like a stone maze of waist high piles of rubble. But still, we got to see her stove, bathroom and throne room! Again, the guidebooks will advise that this is not the real site, but I still like thinking about this beautiful ...

... messy. The bonus is that there are vegetarian and meat varieties. The local Asmara beer is nice too - one reason we have come back to the Capital since you can't really get it outside. The bonus is it only costs 14 nfa / 45 pence. At dusk people prominade down the prominade in their best clothes - western or local (dresses with shawls) Can't believe after a short time in the sun I am now taking up my brownie name and walking around with Panda eyes!!! Travellers Tips ...

... clothes, I have my moments of vanity you know, and made my m**ry and rath** convoluted way to Eritrea via Rome. I was extremely exited by the prospect of visiting the horn of Africa for the first time (I will not ent**tain any snide comments about horns thank you v**y much!). The reason I had to go via Rome was that th**e is no direct flight from any African country apart from Egypt (same diff**ence from my part of the world right ...

... of 1950s Italian (art deco ish) architecture, including the very cool Fiat building. The Italians also left behind a strong cafe culture. Cafes serving small, rich cups of brew turned out by the mandatory Italian expresso machines perched on every counter top, many with streetside seating, line the main streets and are a huge hangout for the mostly younger crowd in the evenings. The older generation retire to the equally numerous hole in ...