 | Awasa to Addis Ababa
2008-12-29, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By: saffa2 | | For us, Ethiopia lacked the “WOW” factor that we look for in each country and I believe that the reason is because we had too little time to travel throughout the whole. We had one week from entering... |
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 | Yabelo to Awasa
2008-12-22, Awasa, Ethiopia. By: saffa2 | | Even though being referred to as “The Horn of Africa”, few of the African custom carries over once you cross the border from the South to Ethiopia. As one Ethiopian even said, and I quote: “This is no... |
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 | Trekking The Simiens - Day 3
2007-09-19, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | The final day we awoke with sunburn from the previouys days trek, you dont realise youre getting burnt because its colder. We had a quick breakfast then packed upi the gear before heading back to our ... |
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| Trekking The Simiens - Day 2
2007-09-18, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | The next day we woke about 7am to some nice wrm porridge which was just what the doctor ordered after a chilly night. But when we got out the tent it was really hot - the clothes we'd been trying to d... |
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| Trekking The Simiens - Day 1
2007-09-17, Simien Mountains, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | A really early start on the morning of the first day (05:30) so we could pack away our tents before we set off at 07:30. After a tyre change and food stop we headed for the mountains. After about 10 m... |
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| Bahar Dar to Gondar
2007-09-12, Gondar, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | Didn't write a story for yesterday as I had a hangover like it was 1999 all over again!
Today we got up packed our stuff away, then had porridge for breakfast before leaving for Gondar about 250km ... |
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| Bahar Dar - Day 1
2007-09-09, Bahar Dar, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | Got to Bahar Dar, a town in the Northern part of Ethiopia on the edge of Lake Tana. The views are nice and there are flocks of pelican all around and Hornbills in the trees making lots of noise. Its q... |
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| The First Truck Journey to Bahar Dar
2007-09-08, Bahar Dar, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | We Left Addis for Bahar Dar on the truck. It took us a day and a half to get there but seeing as there is only 7 of us we got lots of space.
The scenery was some of the best we've seen - we had to ... |
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| Hooray It's Finally Here!!
2007-09-08, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | Well it's only 2 weeks late but at last we have a truck! Seeing as its been such a saga i'll explain whats gone on...
Initially we were in Dahab when we were told that the truck was going to be lat... |
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| Harar! We've Been To Harar
2007-09-05, Harar, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | In order to keep us sweet and stop us carrying on the trip without a truck, it was suggested we spend a day in Harar, a walled city in the east of Ethiopia. It was agreed that as long as we are going ... |
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| Still No Truck!
2007-09-02, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | Spent the last two days wandering the streets of Addis seeing what there is to offer. Yesterday we went to the National Museum and saw "Lucy" the oldest Homanid remains and reconstruction of the young... |
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| The Journey to Addis Ababa
2007-08-31, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By: sdell | | Well it can safely be said that getting to Addis was a bit of a mission. we left Dahab at 11:00 on the 30th for Cairo on another (probably expensive) minibus! The journey seemed endless lasting 8 hour... |
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 | Ethiopia - The Truth
2005-10-23, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. By: hmakwana | | Having only seen the stereotypical images of famine and drought on the media, we didn't know what to expect when our plane landed at midnight in Addis Ababa. Leaving the airport we were surrounded by ... |
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