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Day 24 - Addis Ababa
Hair: Sadly reminiscent of Eddie Munster Beard: Itinerant Distance Travelled: 2950km Frame of Mind: Impatient The tag line for Ethiopia in their tourist literature is "13 Months of Sunshine". They can claim this on account of the fact that they have a different calendar to most of us. It consists of 12 months of 30 days and another month of 5/6 …
Ethiopia, who would have thought?!
I arrived in Addis Ababa around 3-4 am. Way too early, but the cheapest flight that got me from Egypt to Ethiopia. (I did not go overland through Sudan. This bothers me, a lot. But I had promised to try and a tiny more common sense on this trip than I had shown in the past, so given the situation there, I decided to avoid it. I've since learned …
Addis Ababa - the Return
The trip back from Lalibela seemed to take forever. I was eventually moved to the front seat of the bus, next to the driver. Despite the fact I had to pay extra for it (and had not wanted it in the first place), this aroused much anger in the aforementioned black Caribbean English woman who was also on the bus for the return trip. She seemed to …
Scammed in Addis Ababa!
The very first day in Ethiopia was quite eventful! I arrived at 7:00am walking out of the airport into a jungle of taxis. I began asking how much they were to the center. The first quote I received was 300 brr ( $18 USd ) I finally got them down to 180 brr which I knew was closer to the right price but still a little high. I told the driver to take …
African arrival
Welcome to the Ethiopia section - click on the links to go to a specific place, otherwise read on. ~ Blue Nile Falls ~ Lalibela ~ A bit of Addis Ababa ~ Harar ~ Lake Awassa ~ Arba Minch ~ Nechisar National Park ~ Moyale ~ Ethiopia Summary ~~~~~~~~~~~ Day the First - in which disaster is narrowly avoided, and the missionaries get into position …