Gonder Hotels - Reviews and Rates

My journey across Ethiopia continues. Another part of this beatiful country could be discovered, even if I have discovered places, I didn't want to see... It was a lot talked about people throwing things at travelers. Here my experiences along the highway to Gonder:

Number of items thrown at me:

4 stones (1 at helmet)
1 stick...

We only intended on staying in Gonder
for a couple nights, but we ended up staying here for an extra couple
days since our flight to Lalibela was cancelled due to some obscure
unusual fog that apparently came from Sudan. We still enjoyed seeing
the different architectural styles of the castles within the Royal
Enclosure (they ...

On the only day we had in Khartoum we were both crook with flu-like symptoms and did not feel like going very far. We did, however, hire a taxi to drive past the heavily guarded presidential palace, as you are not allowed to walk past and vehicles are not allowed to stop. Taking photographs is strictly forbidden on pain of being arrested and you...

With the bus still not well, I was up in good time to go over to the mechanics. He wanted me there at 9am when he contacted his mate in Addis to get a price for a seal. That's a rubber part, not the aquatic animal. Bill was expecting a price of a few pounds. I was a little taken aback when he quoted 6800 birr, that's about £425. He made the fina...

Hi everyone, I'm afraid I can only manage a short update as the internet here is so slow! After spending a couple of days in Addis, which included a nice meal with Zewdu, a friend of Ursula's and now ours who is helping us a lot with our trip, we left for Bahir Dar, on the shores of Lake Tana. Here we met up with a very nice Czech couple, with w...

Three hours after we departed, after passing through the mountainous farmland we arrived on the Northern banks of Lake Tana in Gonder. After the sharp turns, steep cliffs and seeing a few guns in some pockets, we began to wonder if we should bypass the 6-8 day journey through Kenya and take the $450 flight to Dar es Salaam instead. Described, by...