Baro Hotel Addis Ababa

Greetings from Ethiopia! The flight on Ethiopian airlines was very strange. It actually left the airport early and we arrived in Addis Ababa ahead of schedule. Coming into Addis Ababa, I could see tons of little lights on the ground like stars in the ...

... 75% of my clothes and footwear is now wet with little prospect of drying in my cold, damp little hovel in the overpriced Baro hotel.  One interesting thing about the hotel is the game of 'what will the corridor smell like when I return'.  It is ...

... spared the ear splitting levels of Ethiopian pop suffered on the first voyage. This thing rattled and shook its way slowly back towards Addis Ababa. By the second day it began to break down - a lot. A few times there were spectacular explosions of ...

... got them down to 180 brr which I knew was closer to the right price but still a little high. I told the driver to take me to Baro Hotel which was full so I walked next door to Ankober Hotel which cost $20 USd. It is a decent place with private rooms and ...

January 23, 2008 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia We arrived in Addis about noon and got a room at the Baro Hotel for 100 Birr. We could tell from the smell of bleach that the room had just been cleaned, which gave us a good feeling about the place. This is ...

... on the road and taxis are running. Weary from 2 days of buses, we hopped on a minibus across town to the Piazza and the Baro Hotel, where we flopped. We went back to the Wutuma for dinner and had the best lasagne in the history of man. Sated we ...

I love Ethiopian food, but I am seriously bored out of my mind. The Baro hotel has a nice patio to just sit in the sun, but even that isn't enough. I walked around and the air here is seriously bad. I think Bangkok was bad, but the air here is a bit ...

... , we left the mad man standing on the sidewalk and continued on our way back to the hotel. Arvid slept peacefully that night. February 10, 2008 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Today we walked to the bus station and bought our tickets to Moyala on the Kenyan ...

... , fear, or ignorance that can exist in all of us. I think I am the better for facing it.*) I spent two days in Addis Ababa, mostly walking around, getting stared at, and trying (almost always in vain) to check my email. It appears the entire internet ...

... my friend said it was great. So mission one for todayw as accomplished. The next mission was to find out about a night minibus from Addis Ababa to Harar for when I get back from the north later. We thought we had time so we walked around that area quite ...

... - click on the links to go to a specific place, otherwise read on. ~ Blue Nile Falls ~ Lalibela ~ A bit of Addis Ababa ~ Harar ~ Lake Awassa ~ Arba Minch ~ Nechisar National Park ~ Moyale ~ Ethiopia Summary ~~~~~~~~~~~ Day the First - in ...

... and really started to get rude with people hassling me.. besides this I had also a pleasant time with the other guests of Baro Hotel. Sherpa is a Nepalese guy that is cycling around the world for peace and environment. He is cycling since eight years and ...

... with our flip-flops and tank-tops. We paid double the normal taxi price to get to the hotel because it was so late. And the Baro Hotel is the seediest place I've ever stayed in. I was warned by a Dutch guy in Uganda who'd come from Ethiopia to watch out ...

... post is a bit disjointed and confused. I've taken my malaria medicine today and am consequently feeling a bit spaced out. I'm back in Addis Ababa after my 2 week jaunt to Western Ethiopia. Back to the city of time warp days where you leave the hotel ...

... more big mamas etc.. People, culture, landscapes, food, safety are very different from the Africa I had traveled until flying to Addis. Some are better, I really enjoy Ethiopian food and cannot get enough of Injera with all those tasty and ...

... through the Mercato to get to the Autobus Terra. We're going to Harar tomorrow and buying tickets in advance is a good idea for the busy Addis station. We had been told that to get to Harar we would need to get a bus to Dire Dawa and then another one on ...