Bahar Dar Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Today the air is cleaner, so it's a good day to backtrack a few hours to Bahir Dar before the final leg back to Addis in a few days. Maybe I'll catch some vistas that I missed on the way in to Gonder. If nothing else maybe my lungs can start recuperating, though I imagine I'll be scraping out black gunk for a while. If I can survive my wife's TB...

Seulam! Bahar Dar is north of Addis Ababa, a 12 hour bus trip to be exact. It's on the shore of Lake Tana, Ethiopia's largest lake, which is famous for its lake monasteries and being the source of the Blue Nile, one of the sources of the Nile, which flows over 5200 km north to the Mediterranean Sea. One of the guesthouses in town, and a lot of p...

Back in Bahir Dar I awoke early to the sound of prayers and birds. A beautiful sunrise over Lake Tana I couldn't resist taking some photos of fishers in papyrus boats again. Shuffled onto a bus before I could finish my morning coffee (Ethiopian coffee will make ANY day good!). On our way to the airport to try this again. Now there were many, man...

Awoke to the sound of roosters at 4am after a night of very heavy rains in which the water came right down the hallway (no sealed doors between from the outside balcony). I think airports will become one of my favourite parts of traveling in the next week. It's so interesting to see how things can be done differently. Our passports were checked ...

The 6 hour minibus turned into a 11 hour game with a 1 hour lunch break when we were expecting to arrive - so that was fun, but at least we had the front seat so we were relatively comfortable - although the music made us a little deaf and the gravel road part the way made for a bumpy ride. This is being currently made into asphelt and therefore...

The minibus picked us up around 4am, it was surely too early to start the day but hey we would have the rest of the day to sleep on the minibus anyway so there was nothing to complain about. The driver drove around the city to pick up more people. A few people really had too much stuff packed in, it looked as if they were moving. I got myself a ...

Bahar Dar is a nice town on the Southern end of Lake Tana. The streets are lined with palms and in December the air is temperate. We opted for the pricey place in town because of its beautiful lake-side gardens and quiet rooms. The manager negotiated from 125 birr down to 75, about 9 US dollars; about twice as much as another pension in town. Th...