Tana Hotel Bahir Dar

... a public bus for 2 short hours, bound for a village called Gashena where we were supposed to catch a connecting bus to Bahir Dar. Passing through a village to pick up more passengers we had yet another adventure. Our bus assistant was attacked by a ...

After about 24 hours and plenty of complementary London Pride on the BA flight I finally made it to Bahir Dar on the edge of Lake Tana. I tried to ignore the burned out plane just off the runway at Addis Ababa. The scenery was fantastic from Addis, a sort ...

... 5, reached airport at 5;30, boarded at 7:30 but then rode the shuttle bus back to the terminal due to bad weather at destination Bahir Dar. Boarded again an hour later and took off, but after 5 minutes we circled back to the airport due to a "minor problem ...

... that takes many years to perfect. Note: pitching forward into it gets you nil points. And a sore ringing forehead. We arrived in Bahir Dar at 2pm, not bad really. Antoneh refused to take us to the hotel we had decided on (he had my bag on his ...

Lake Tana is the primary reason that Bahir Dar exists.  It is a huge lake - one of the largest in Africa and it feeds the Blue Nile River which flows up to the White Nile (what we simply call the Nile) and on to the Mediterranean.  There are ...