Quara Hotel Gonder

... br>A cote se trouve les derniers felachas, juifs se trouvant en ethiopie, la plupart ayant migre en israel.

Et pas tres loin se trouve le parc de simien qui offre un paysage halucinant avec des sommets a plus de 4000m. Si vous faire du trekking en afrique, il s agit la un des plus beau endroit en afrique.

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• Chilling out at the Belegez
  Pension and meeting lots of cool travelers including Peter who we
  went up the Siemien Mountains with – he taught at a Tanzanian
  school with the Peace Corp
  
  
• Randomly having tea with a group
  of American grad school students who were researching baboons on top
  of the Siemien Mountains.
  

... land confiscated for refusing to convert, once Christianity was adopted as the state religion. From 1985 to 1991, most of the Falashas were airlifted to Israel, so today only a few remain. Then, after a quick lunch, we headed down to try our luck at the bank. I'd gotten a pin for my Visa before I'd left the States for just such occasions, but who knew if my card had been shut off or not since I'd just used it to charge a plane ticket in Addis ...

... and they can tell you where anyone is and what they're up too! Last weekend we payed a flying visit to Steve and Sarah in Bahir Dar. Their place is fantastic (not only does it have water, but it's hot!!) so was nice to just hang out there. Was nice to have a full weekend off and whilst Debs explored the monasteries I had seen before I got my frolic on in a rather fancy hotel pool. Unfortunately this wasn't to last long as my ...

... climate. On the way we saw lots of young Eucalypt plantantions to cater for the ever increasing demand for cooking and heating fuel in the form of charcoal. Gonder is a provincial centre with a World Heritage site: the Royal Enclosure. This is a 7.5 ha walled compound with several castles dating back to the 16th century and ...

... tree stumps. The question I am so frequently asked by the interns and seniors is "how does medicine in uk compare to Ethiopia?" - I answer diplomatically with "it is different". Infectious disease makes up the majority of medical cases here - huge rates of TB, a fascinating condition called Kalazar (much reading up was required!), every patient with recent onset fever and another false localizing sign pretty much has malaria, and looming in the ...

... but it was still extortionate. We were advised to come back at 5, so we arrived en masse at 4 to be disappointed by the lack of progress. The exhaust was still off and we were informed that the seals were still on their way from the airport. We set to work cleaning and washing up, to make the bus vaguely habitable and remove the 3 tonnes of fine powder from the bedding and elsewhere. At 6pm I went to check on progress again and was given the new ...

I am thoroughly enjoying our short little flights in tiny airports here. It's refreshing to see how things can be done differently than the super-high security and formality of NA. Today our passports were checked at the road before even getting to the airport, but for some reason they had no need to see our tickets...Then again when we approached the building. They seem to look at our passport for the allotted amount of time, but I ...

... rather than circular). It was round, but was changed to honour the Ark. King Fasilada's bath was built simply for pleasure! Kinda like olden day pool parties. It was under a lot of renovation, but you could still imagine it's glory. Every year even now, they fill it up and have a huge celebration to honor Christ's baptism (Timket) and many people are also baptized in the water at this time. Empress Mentewab's ...