Hotel Aksum

... was quite fascinating and the minibus driver actually got over one.. poor beast.. After a couple of hours we finally arrived in Aksum! We slept at Africa Hotel. The owner is quite friendly and rooms were clean and with a TV. The day afterwards we, me and ...

... knowledge".  The Aksumite Emipre began to rise as early as 400BC, and by the 1st Century AD Greek merchants knew Aksum as a powerful capital.  For almost 1000 years this empire held a strangle hold on the trade routes between Africa and ...

... into churches, when they are not museums but churches that are being used by locals to pray in. I enjoyed going to the Reimhind hotel for lovely meals in the traditional restaurant - yeay it was great to get fasting food every day that tasted lovely - ...

... Debra Damo and Yeha, excellent news as it would probably be a bit expensive by myself! Not many other independent travelers in Aksum, although a number of small organized tour groups. Tried to crack a joke about Yeha, something along the lines of 'ride ...

... we visited without the company of our driver, we quickly realized that Northern Ethiopia is truly travel-friendly. Lines of hotel and tour operators are neatly installed at each airport, where staff is polite and not-so-aggressive in arranging transport ...

... Aksum the last half of a larva came out with a gentle squeeze.  All three holes are at last healing! At the hotel in Aksum we had a brain wave and searched on google for ‘mango fly’, which we remembered reading about somewhere.  ...

... . It was an important trading center and ruled the region from ca. 400 BC until the 10th century. The kingdom of Aksum developed a distinctive architecture exemplified by giant obelisks, which  date from 5000-2000 BC. It also had it's own written ...

... .  Both Mai Shum and Ak Shum mean "water of the chief" so the pool is possibly the source of Axum's (or Aksum's) name. * Tsion Maryam Church complex -- oodles of important religious buildings.  The site was the site of the first Christian church ...

... and apply for a visa in your name. I shrugged and was basically laughed out of the embassy. Discouraged I walked back towards my hotel weighing out my options for what I should do next. I decided I wasn’t ready to give up without exhausting all ...

... money/pens/candy.  It was pretty depressing, and initiated a habit that I kept up for the rest of my trip -- hiding in my hotel room listening to my ipod for an hour or so before dinner.  The peace and quiet was really nice after being the focus ...

... all the New Years wishes.  It came in pretty much unnoticed here because of the difference in calendars.  We flew to Axum (Aksum - alternative spelling) and have 3 days here to see the sights and soak in all the ancient history.  Axum is a ...

... going to a major tourist attraction that of course there would be ATMs and places that take credit cards!  We talked with the hotel manager – who was very calm and understanding (since at this point we had no way of paying our bill!)  and ...

... gallery of photographs not taken. In this small town in the extreme north of one of the world's least developed countries, the Abnet Hotel, oddly, is entered by what may be the world's smallest revolving door. I try to go through too fast, the partition ...

... have a room with one double bed, even if two people are sharing you only get one towel.  We asked for an extra towel at one hotel, which they gave us - no problem.  We left both towels out to dry when we left for the day and when we came back we ...

... realm of Meroe and becoming ruler over part of both Asia and Africa. He constructed much of the monumental architecture of Aksum, including a reported 100 stone obelisks, the tallest of which loomed 98 ft over the cemetery in which it stood and weighed ...

... : so nice, rural area. I went down by walking, because I was afraid to fall from the mule (Rita...). 4/3 a FLIGHT TO aKSUM. hOTEL aFRICA ($6.3 a single room with bathroom). We took a tuktuk and saw all the ruins - not so impressive. 5/3: Avi's ...

... although Hannah and I ARE getting sick of sleeping with each other. The next day we made the final hop, skip and jump to Aksum and were very pleasantly surprised. It's a wee town with lovely weather, a vaguely wild west flavour and a population of only ...