Swayne's Hotel Arba Minch
P.O. Box 19018 Arba Minch, Ethiopia
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Bekele Mola Hotel Arba Minch
9 reviews
Last review: Feb 01, 20122 miles NE of Swayne's Hotel
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Lounging by the Lakes
From the Bale Mountains we hopped through three towns in quick succession: Wondo Genet, Awasa and Arba Minch. And each time we moved we had to pass through the now infamous Shashemene.
In Wondo Genet we camped in the grounds of a resort and plunged ourselves into the nearby hotsprings. The hotsprings are fed into swimming pools and made a nice change from the freezing temperatures in the Bale Mountains. We also seem to ...
Round off!
Ethiopia uses the Julian calendar, which is divided into 12 months of 30 days each, and a 13th month of five or six days at the end of the year. The Ethiopian year commences on 11 September and is eight years behind the Gregorian calendar from January to September and seven years behind between 11 September and 8 January. At September 12th it is New Year celebration. The celebration isn't at night but just on New Year’s Day, like any ...
Arba Minch (Southern Ethiopia)
... How lucky am I?! Being here again fills me with a sense of gratitude and humility.
Nick, Dianne and I whiled away the morning until Rogan and Alison came back from Arba Minch. It was lunch time! We were entertained by a family monkies which were in the hotel grounds. Mother, father and baby! Wow! I noticed a range of birds (e.g. Maribu Stork) and wonderful butterflies here. The sort I used to see in my little book when I was a child.
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Trucking down to Arba Minch
... gate) which had not been lifted. This shattered the window in front of the front four seats.
Quickly, the whole group leaped into action in order to sort out the mess from the accident. Our delay was surprisingly short whilst we made a temporary window which was very effective!
On we went! The rain continued and the hills of Ethiopia just kept on coming. We encountered mist which slowed us ...
Give me my money!!
So the bus journey is quite the adventure as always. I'm not sure what the average travel time is here but it took us about 8 hours I think. But road works did see us diverted onto a road which couldn’t handle the volume of traffic and added a significant delay time to that.
It’s pretty amazing actually, the pictures don’t do the stupidity of the situation we found ourselves in justice, so I will try describe. So the road is too ...
