Harar Hotels - Reviews and Rates

J attendais avec impatience de venir ici : tout cela pour nourrir des hyenes, un predateur avec une machoire plus puissante que celle des lions.

Seulam! Harar is a mostly Muslim community with the old town surrounded by 5 meter walls built in the 16th Century. Inside the walls are 368 alleyways squeezed into 1 square kilometer with 82 small mosques, tombs, shrines, and traditional Harari (Adare) Houses. Every evening there is a hyena feeding by the four remaining hyena men of Harar. It s...

Harar was not what I expected. I thought it would be a town on top of a hill surrounded by high walls and in the evening Men feeding the hyenas. We stayed at Tana hotel for 50 birr (3 pounds). It was a 30 minute walk from the walled city and the taxi drivers often asked far too much since we are white (farangi's) and therefore we ended up getti...

And now for something different! Deciding that we had well and truly "done" the north of Ethiopia we decided to head east for a bit of desert and Islamic culture. We had heard great things about Harar; namely that it's the 4th most holy Islamic city in the world and it sits within a walled square kilometre containing over 80 mosques. Oh, and tha...

We had a short 1 hour minibus trip from Dire Dawa to Harar. We asked to be dropped at Towderos hotel recommended by the Lonely Planet - big mistake. The owner, knowing he had a good write-up, had more than doubled his prices. We of course weren't having any of that, so backpacks strapped on, we started to wander the streets of Harar. It didn't t...

Day the Thirteenth - in which we are unimpressed by tchat, impressed by the hyenas, and we get our first '**** you'. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We had arranged to meet Nebel at 8am, so we got up at 7 and sorted stuff that had been abandoned in our tiredness the previous night. Outside the hotel window, we could see the open area where the hyenas had be...