Queen of Sheba Hotel Addis Ababa

just staying overnight in a beautiful hotel thanks to Ethiopian ...

... Ed and I then went to dinner at the panoramic Garden View restaurant managed by Lance, an African American originally from S.E. Missouri. Addis Ababa is a very nice place to visit. The people make it special with their jovial ways and outgoing ...

... Unfortunately at this time the bug (which turned out to be parasites) was affecting both of us. We flew into Addis Ababa and went straight to a hotel where we both spent the day resting and attempting to recover. Our guide Solomon met us the next day and ...

... Nairobi ($12), change money from Kenyan shilling to US Dollars ($3), buy an Ethiopian visa ($20), catch a cab into town at the Addis Ababa airport (they tried to get me for $15 which I wouldn't have had anyway but being experienced at airports in the 3rd ...

... little is known about the old and rich history of Ethiopia. Some of the churches, tombs and palaces we saw date to Queen Sheba and King Solomon’s times, 3000BC. The Axumite kingdom was massive and hugely influential, rivalling that of Rome and even ...

... 4000 years and it was once the most important city in sub-saharan Africa. There are palaces of Emperors, the infamous Queen of Sheba and hundreds of unexplored tombs marked with a variety of stone stelae ranging from your standard (Asterix type) to the ...

... an important Ethiopian military base and were threatening to take areas through which the vital railway ran. * The military regime in Addis Ababa was at a point of collapse but then the Russian and Cuban troops intervened with the help from Moscow, ...

... had: soggy, fatty, uncooked par-boiled, part fried potatoes.  No matter how hungry we were, they were disgusting!   Got into Addis Ababa just after lunch and then drove half an hour out of town to the Bel Air Hotel which we later found out is ...

... a restaurant before heading back to the hotel and relaxing for the remainder of the day. The next morning we flew out early, back to Addis Ababa. In Addis we were fortunate to be able to meet up with Mark and Emma who had left the truck in Cape town. Here ...

... up out of the tombs we spied a camel train delivering salt from the Afar desert (actually the Danakill depression) in eastern Ethiopia to Addis Ababa. It was quite far off for a good camera shot (oh! for that 300 mm lense on our Nikon instead of this ...