Hotel Ghion Addis Ababa

We landed at Addis Ababa international at about 8.30pm after some 24hours straight in the air or air terminals, to put it mildly, we were gutted. But the great thing was that we knew that Heather had arranged an airport to hotel transfer. We walked ...

... to South Africa (on the plus side, this made visas/immigration/customs absurdly speedy!). I checked into my hotel, right in the center of Addis Ababa (which is huge...3.5 million people).  I was digging through my bag trying to find toothpaste when ...

Thursday we had a long drive through a whole lot of farmland from Bahir Dar to Addis Ababa.  The driver and guide bought me my last lunch at a true local restaurant (I don‘t count the ones near the hotel in Addis -- they‘re yummy and all, ...

The first morning was reserved for some museums: the Ethnological museum, in the former palace of Haile Selassie, but now part of the University. After that we went to the National museum that houses a replica of Lucy - the oldest hominid ...

... after a marathon two day multi-flight journey.  My tour company met me at the airport and took me to the Ghion Hotel, a walled compound in the city with beautiful gardens.  Somewhat outdated but still quite comfortable.  Slept and read for ...

... fly then through Paris to Ad dis Ababa. here we,ll be picked up by the travel agency and they will bring us to our hotel , the ghion hotel. When we are settled and have slept a few hours we'll go to the orphanage where our daughter has been for 5 months ...

we needed some extra room for three peple so we moved to the ghion.  nice ...

... views on the drive were spectacular, which made up for the fact that it was a very long day of driving. We were not too impressed with Addis, and only stayed one night, and treated ourselves to a nice hotel, as I needed a shower badly and reeked of ...

... the Lake to take some photos before the truck left.  Saw a really nice saddle-billed stork beside the lake. Drove to Addis Ababa, the capital, having lunch prior to reaching the city outskirts.  Passed through the towns of Ziway and Debre ...

March 22 - April 24 2010 Route Traveled Ethiopia Addis Ababa - Shashemene - Dodola - Dinsho - Shashemene - Nazret - Harar - Addis Ababa - Bahir Dar - Gonder - Debark - Aksum - Mekele - Woldia - Lalibela - Dessie - Addis Ababa "If you say your gonna go, ...

... choose a surface tour you can use minivan, bus or land cruiser (4x4). Accommodations in The Historical Route: Out of Addis Ababa to historical route accommodations range is from basic to 3 star hotels. Cultural Tourist Attractions of Ethiopia Dozens of ...

Det er dejligt igen at være i Afrika og Addis Ababa er en ny oplevelse på godt og ondt. Det er en by fuld af kontraster. Fra stinkende rigdom til den yderste fattigdom. Men det er også en ny i en rivende udvikling. Alle steder skyder der nye huse op. ...

... be desired, so my apologies for how far behind I am, but I will do my best to catch you up!! 21st July we left Addis Ababa clean and sweet smelling! We headed North, once we were out of Addis, the countryside opened up and we were heading into ...

... hewn out of the tufa and basalt to create a New Jerusalem in Lalibela, complete with River Jordan and Pathway to Heaven! Returning to Addis, our tour finished with an evening of local food (another injection of injera – certainly it seems to have an ...

... on the road.   We then made a dash to Bahir Dar, a fun place where we camped around the back of the Ghion hotel, used the showers in rooms that guests had momentarily stepped out of, and ventured out to several islands where enclaves of monks and ...

... explosés! Je change 100 euros contre plus de 1300 birrs et je repasse les rayons X pour enfin être pour de bon à... Addis Abeba! Sur le parking de l'aéroport des locaux "tentent de nous aider", nous passons au travers, puis savourons ...

... tell later about ...

... way through to Addis Ababa the capital of Ethiopia. Somewhere on the 3 flights (Perth to Mauritius - Mauritius to Nairobi - Nairobi to Addis Ababa) it went missing. On our first leg Perth to Mauritius there was an urgent call for a  Doctor ...