Ras Amba Hotel Addis Ababa

... logical decition requires to go anywhere else than ther!! This is the chance for me to get a Transit Visa for Saudi Arabia, if granted, a ferry could bring be from Port Sudan to Saudi Arabia, from where I might travel to Jordan. This will be the task for Karthoum (Sudan).<br><br>Motorbike has not experienced any damage, equipment neither any loss from the "Rock'n'Roll" Track ...

... Apparently the Chinese are getting all the press as the nouveau riche from heaven. Apparently the new Mandarins are the old Mandarins; they just haven't come to collect the rent yet. Ethiopian women are quite fetching. Comparisons to Thailand occur to me. The word for 'foreigner' is even almost the same, 'faranji' instead of 'farang'. The people are equally subdued in character, hardly the in-yo'-mo-fo-face attitude of Western ...

... is raw I guess. I am so glad I transited through Nairobi for a day and shored up on Nyama Choma (roasted meat) which was a reaction to a vegetarian dinner in Amsterdam.  I'm doomed!! There is a conspiracy against me trying to get me to eat vegetables - what is this?  Hopefully the wonderful Ethiopian coffee will keep me so hyped up I won't even notice and I think I've identified a place where they will serve me meat with Njera (tef pancake) so sorted.  Don't worry ...

... explained to her what we want to do. She couldn't understand it either at the beginning. Imagine that he would tell her "they're with me, let them in" and make a sign to us to come - I thought. Well, finally my thoughts came true. He signed for us to come, and since we have had boarding passes to the flight to Entebbe, we were lucky to be able to enter Ethiopia, even without a visa. A middle-age taxi driver walked after us, proposing his services to ...

... Kids used to be content with a football, now they need a full Man Utd kit, Nike boots and a Nintendo to play football games on. The bus is likely to be sold apparently. From what I've gathered it should fetch well in excess of what we paid for it. This money will help to fund the project for some time and hopefully help them to achieve their goal of becoming self sufficient. The medical equipment, educational equipment, generator and other stuff will also be put to good use.

... and the rasta driver. we got there after 20 minutes of screaming engine nd went in to find that you had to pay to enter, and it wasnt a turtle, it was 1 old tortoise, we skipped that and jumped back on the boat to sail out a little way to go snorkilling....it was amazing! wig stayed in the boat, coz it was about 20 or 30 ft deep where we were and quite scarey, but me and sadhs went in and i saw fishys and starfish and it was great! i took some photos ...

... went to African Lakes Auto to fix a few things on Foxy. We lunched at the government-run Ghenet Hotel. They had a bowling alley, tennis court and impressive gardens. There was a monstrous thundershower tonight, so loud that we had to shout at each other to be heard. We ate at Wanza Hotel's little restaurant and went to sleep in our tent. It seems it is quite impossible to get a good night's sleep in Addis; there was loud banging on the gate all night and a huge bitter row ...

... taken(1 to 3 birr or 10 to 35 cents). We were often hassled when visiting tribes for "photo, photo, photo". &nbsp ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; &nbsp ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; &nbsp ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; &nbsp ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; &nbsp ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; &nbsp ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; &nbsp ...

... to fruit. One house had oysters, one shiitake, one agaricus brunnescens, and another had some experiments going with all those species plus enokitake. Substrates that they used consisted of cottonseed hulls, sawdust, straw or bran, or some combination of those. Agaricus was grown on aged compost from their perfectly layered and watered compost piles. Water was from a hand dug well. One nice ...

... also went with me on this trip. It was nice because it was new to both of us. Since I had only 5 weeks to visit family and travel at the same time I broke the trip down into 3 segments. Capital City (central Ethiopia), Northern Ethiopia and Southern Ethiopia. Addis Ababa is the capital city of Ethiopia and that is where my family lives. I had the privilege of getting to stay with two of my family members in two different parts of town. We ...