Taitu Hotel

... teeth with AK-47s, just seemed to watch it with a detached bemusement. I checked out early and got a cab to the Taitu Hotel, a nice cheap backpacker option. The drive gave me my first opportunity to see sub-saharan africa close up. I was surprised ...

... jump over the highway fences and then bolt full speed to the other side. We nearly hit one boy. We arrived at Ithegue Taitu Hotel and found Christoph and Chiho. We shared an injera dinner and caught up on the past few days' activities. We decided ...

Where I slept [again] in the Taitu Hotel. It was [according to Lonely Planet ed. 2000] built by Menelik's wife, Empress Taitu, in 1907, and was the country's first government hotel. It was such a novelty at the time that it had to be made ...

... up and drop off some passengers before arriving in Addis. Toby, Matt, Athene and myself shared a taxi and got a place at the Taitu Hotel, close to the Piazza. Had some very nice Shish Kebabs and a Middle Eastern place that evening. Next day and a ...

I'm staying at the Taitu Hotel, supposedly first in Ethiopia, now falling apart spectacularly. Checked out the Wutma Hotel and during breakfast was approached about a possible 8-day of southern Ethiopia for $100/day for 4WD and driver to be shared 3 ...

... you ask, a National Family Planning campaign missing in action). We stayed in a rather musky hotel room last night at the Itegue Taitu Hotel, recommended by the LP, but we're moving elsewhere tonight. We have sent in about 10 kilos worth of laundry to ...

... some more time to look around the area and prepare for yet another long bus journey south to Kenya.  I stayed in a place called the Taitu hotel which is the oldest hotel in the country which also offered a surprisingly good deal at $5.50 per ...

Ayer llegue a las cuatro de la manana al Taitu Hotel. Tipico hotel de la capital, colonial y muy bonito. Tengo una habitacion muy normal, con bano propio pero huele mucho a humedad. Parece que es la epoca de lluvias y no para. Aunque para mi han hecho una ...

... who were staying on in the Lalibela area to do some trekking.  I flew back to Addis and made my way back to the Queen Taitu Hotel with its legion of incompetent but amiable staff.  There was a message waiting for me from Lalo, and I knew that my ...

... make getting to the hotel (2422m, Lat: N09°01'48.3”, Lon: E38°45'13.1) challenging. The hotel is called the Taitu hotel and is the oldest in Ethiopia. It is very old, decrepit and the lonely planet describes some of the rooms as sleazy. Jess and I ...

... zu Andrea's Hotel gehen, ihr das Geld geben (ihre Kreditkarte funktioniert irgendwie nicht) und dann weitersehen. Also auf zum Taitu Hotel. Das hat sich wesentlich schwerer gestaltet als angenommen. Aus welchen Gründen auch immer haben wir gedacht, das ...

... with high wooden paneled ceilings, fine art work on the walls and a lounge full of travelers watching BBC World.  This was the Taitu hotel, built by the Empress Taitu herself in 1907.  240 birr (about ten pounds) bought us a huge double room for ...

... meet up with Mark and Emma who had left the truck in Cape town. Here we decieded we would also switch to the much nicer Taitu hotel - the oldest in Addis for the next few nights. We spent a nice first evening enjoying the local food in the restaurant and ...

... von Addis, das nahe am Flughafen ist) war nichts gutes und günstiges zu finden, so fiel unsere Wahl auf das Taitu Hotel. Das älteste Hotel in Addis ist recht zentral gelegen und preislich in Ordnung. Wir haben 300 ETB für einen Twin Room mit Bad ...

... attempt to maintain the same lofty standards as Carole. I've moved base camp from the luxurious Hilton to the pretty basic Itegue Taitu Hotel in the Piazza District.  What the hotel lacks is more then compensated for in being located in the older ...

... and family We had a nice flight, with a little sleeping. We arrived at 6:00, and after some arrangements took a taxi to the Taitu hotel, which looks depressing, also locate in a depressing area. The driver took us to a "city tour", looking for hotels. ...

... : the imperial palace in the Entoto Hills, and Holy Trinity Cathedral (built 1933).   The Taitu is the oldest hotel in Ethiopia (established 1898)  and everything is on its last legs.  There are uniformed staff and door ...

... . A delightful relief after what we'd seen from afar during the stop in Khartoum. We had arranged a pickup by our hotel, the Taitu, which we had picked as the best of the backpacker hotels from Lonely Planet's Thorntree forums. Sure enough, two young men ...

... up to guard against mosquitos. Sometime in the morning I stirred. I glanced out and maybe 10m away a shape moved, silhouetted by the hotel driveway lights. It move silently up to the car where it sniffed around the dirty plates before moving on. In my ...