Lammergeyer Hotel Gonder
PO box 57 Gonder, Ethiopia
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Last stop before Sudan
... Tella" a local alcoholic self made beverage.
We really had good times together and so I was invited also the next day to keep on drinking Tella and to taste the king of the injeras, the "doro wat" (injera with chicken stew) which was super tasty. I was eating the doro alone cause the others had to fast that day, except for John that decided to break the fast for once..
I spent almost a ...
Part Two, Go!
... hotel in town. The Goha Hotel had free wifi, all the trimmings and sat perched on top of the hill overlooking town. We had two days to get used to this kind of treatment before we got launched into the bush and back to camping. It would be a system shock...
Gonder once served as the capital of the Ethiopian empire and the remaining castles have earned it the title as the "Camelot of Africa". In 1636 Emperor Fasilidas established the capital here to ...
Already 2.5 months in!
... Swahili/Maasai/Amharic/Engli sh
Foreign Language proficiency: 22%/19%/1%/0.023% /huh%?
Foreign beer ranking: 1. Kilimanjaro (Tanz) ; 2. 2M (Moz); 3. Tusker (Kenya); 4. St George (Eth)
Foreign gin ranking: good everywhere
Foreign red wine: shocking everywhere
Useless items: Karen – yoga mat, skipping rope, solar cell phone charger, nail polish remover.
William – fishing net, boulles set, hair gel.
Surprising useful items: fly swatters
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Gonder and Simien Mountains National Park
... A few of us went to the restaurant we had eaten in the previous evening. From here, Dianne, Nick and I took a long walk through the outskirts. We bought avocados, mangos, ginger, sumosas and salt.
It is so interesting seeing people's lives work and the pace of life. Here, there are quite a lot of children begging. They do it automatically. It is sort of sad in one sense but it is part of ...
East African Castles
... the onslaught of Muslim invaders. They Portugues slowly gained influence during the reign of Emperor Susneyos, whom they converted to Roman Catholicism. His son, Emperor Fasilides however, successfully restored peace and returned the country back to Orthodox beliefs by reuniting church and state. He was the first to built a castle bearing his name. Other Emperors followed in building their castles: Iasu's Palace, Dawit's Hall, Mentewab's ...
