Dagim Millenium Hotel Addis Ababa

... a green and lush land unfolds below you as far as the eye can see. Every patch of soil is cultivated with tef (a type of wheat). Cows, sheep, goats and small, neat villages dot the country side….anybody familiar with ‘the Lord of the Rings’, should only think of the ‘Shire’ (das Auenland) to get a good idea of the landscape. Men carry wooden ploughs to their waiting oxen on the field, women lug round-bellied earthenware pots to the nearest well and ...

... and sleep again. I'm paying for that weekend in Seattle and the trip to Portland I guess. Travel can be unbelievably tiring, strange for 'doing nothing'. It can have a drug-like hangover effect, best known in jet-lag, but other times also. I catch my Turkish Air flight at noon and sleep some more. The food's good. I'm looking forward to Turkey after Bosnia's hybrid state. But first comes Ethiopia, so I change planes at ...

... we were able to meet Jeremy and Theresa who not only<br>took us to the orphanage but also made sure we were well taken care<br>of in Addis. Thanks to them, we had some fantastic Ethiopian food,<br>delicious fruit juices and fun RAGE sessions with their youth group. <br>Good times.<br>The orphanage is located in a town<br>called Wondo Genet, which is a 4 hour drive south of Addis. We<br>weren&#8217;t quite sure exactly what to expect when got to the ...

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 for hotels. Finally we chosed this on, which is nice and new ($60-prices always per room), and I think we are fascinate by it. Osman, the manager of Sora jeeps company, came, and we made new ...

... left sections still rough and lumpy. We encountered a bridge at high speed and found the tarmac missing on the approach. I think that may have woken the sleepers as we all bounced a foot or two in to the air. At around 8am we started the winding descent down in to the Nile Gorge. Switchbacks aplenty as the road clings precariously to the side of the cliff. The tarmac was intermittent and in one place over half the road had just slipped away down the hill. It looked fairly ...

... inbetween visiting the doctor, she then skillfully passed it on to me, so when we left iringa we were both ill, with sadha being all jolly inbetween us! but the journey to dar was greatly improved by a gold gun me and sadhs bought that made noises....well for about 5 minutes before it broke! so after selling chilli sauce out the window for 200 and shooting all the hot men we saw we got to dar and the next dar headed to zanzibar. Few insane things ...

Today was an up day. It didn't rain one drop. This is important because we don't have to fold the tent away wet. We got the last of our clothes washed. My orange fleece was filthy. We picked up our Sudanese visas at the embassy at 3pm. No questions asked, we walked out within 5 minutes! And we were all so worried about getting a 2 week transit visa after hearing and reading so many horror stories from other Overlanders. We ...

... supported sides, men and women toting heavy loads(eg sticks, corn stalks, water, charcoal, market grains)on their backs or heads in blistering 35 degrees Celsius heat. Dust and heat constantly. Dust devils whirling about on the flat plains between the ...

... we left the mad man standing on the sidewalk and continued on our way back to the hotel. Arvid slept peacefully that night. February 10, 2008 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Today we walked to the bus station and bought our tickets to Moyala on the Kenyan border. The cost for the two tickets was 192 birr or about $10 each. The trip will take a day and a half. You might think that after being speared and spit on by the natives that we would be glad to leave this country and while we are glad ...

... 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 local and international. The American Embassy was astounding. Three different fortified, mechanized gates - along with a handful of armed guards - protected the compound. We entered into an oasis of manicured lawns and pristine white buildings; we were on ...