Ras Hotel Addis Ababa

... herd the goats off the street. It would seem that little has changed since Lucy’s time. …Everything is so very different here. People speak and write Amharic an ancient language, the food is unique and spicy – eaten off a big pancake that also serves as your plate (very eco friendly), the traditional dress is white and made out of cotton that is grown and woven here - making the busy market place look a bit like a large wedding procession, the religion is ancient ...

... finally getting in at midnight. My friend's there to meet me; there's a first time for everything. The night air is cool; that suits me fine. I drink a beer and we shoot the **** for a while. It's midnight and I'm wired, jet-lagged as Hell. Welcome to Ethiopia. It turns out that Oliver 'Tuku' Mtukudzi is playing on Sunday, so I immediately make plans to go with my friends, even though it's only Thursday, thus violating my ...

... br>but was thoroughly impressed by the set up they had. The orphanage<br>currently houses 24 kids but aim to take in 10 children in the next<br>couple months. The orphanage contains many income generating<br>projects from farming (corn, maze, potatoes) to cattle and chickens,<br>as well as renting out guest and conference rooms. They plan to<br>eventually be fully self sustaining and also would like to eventually<br>start giving back to the community by making and ...

... for 12 days in the south. We bought many conserves etc. After resting I walked around: lot of people on the streets - calm and quite. Few tourists only. I went to a church, which is closed, but people pray in the corridors. We intend to go to a restaurant with folklore songs. Tomorow we leave at 7:00 and will sleep in Awassa. We go throught Butajira and the interesting places. i'LL WRITE WHEN i HAVE AVAILABLE (FREE) INTERNET. Yours Rivka

... Finally, after about 15km of descent we found the bridge. Well, bridges, they have built a new one but it isn't in operation yet. I had been told that overheating on the climb out of the gorge was just about compulsory. I'm pleased to announce though that we managed the gradient without doing so. We did have a 40 minute break to change drivers a little way up but I still think the old girl did well. We passed the wreckage of a lorry and slighty further on you could see a ...

... in zanzibar. On the first night after a little trip down to forodhani gardens (which is being renovated, so its down a streeet insatead now) for food we headed to a local bar with a man who apparently loves BJ according to his top, and a guy called zizu (french penis!) and started on the konyagi, before finding a large amount of rastas to sindikiza us to starehe, the reggae party. we got in and some one comes over and tells me someone else wants to ...

... managed to change some Ethiopian Birr to Sudanese Pounds with a couple of German travellers who had just come from Sudan. There was the typical slow internet connection today, interrupted by several power outages, but we managed to book our London to Toronto flight for August 13. And with Sue's great help, we have our ferry tickets from France to Jersey (July 28) and from Jersey to England (Aug. 3)!! It's all very ...

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... continue our journey we will miss Ethiopia. Those incidents are like intimate contacts with the spirit of Ethiopia. Those tourists who ride through Africa in relative comfort in the protective bubble of their expensive 4-WDs are, as one traveler told us, like astronauts in capsules passing through space but never touching it. We rationalize that we are getting the real experience. We read a quote attributed to Emperor Haile Selassie: "The worse fault of Abyssinians is their ...

... soil again. Many of we trainees-becoming-volunteers wore traditional Ethiopian dresses given to us by our Welisso host families. Mine was long and white, adorned in gold stitching on the skirt and brightly colored embroidery on the bodice. As I walked across the grassy lawn of the embassy, African afternoon sun shining on my long blonde hair worn down and uncovered for the first time in Ethiopia, white flowing dress swishing around me, I was told by ...