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Take the Long Way Home
(Dec 20 '07)
By Dan
It was time to start heading back towards Addis, so we rolled out of Jinka on the morning of the 17th. After about 75 km., we were back in Weyto and on the road that we had taken from Arba ...
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Wednesday was shopping day when all of the families were taken to shops to buy gifts and souvenirs. The first shop was too small for our large group and more expensive than ...
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Where It All Began
(Dec 01 '07)
By Dan
Having spent a lot of time listening to Bob Marley and his pals over the years, it felt like living one of his songs as we left Babylon and landed in the promised land of Ethiopia. Oh, what ...
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A Little Addis and A Little Addat
(Dec 04 '07)
By Dan
Ugh, was that too much of a stretch for a pun??
Following our very late (or early?) arrival in Addis, we slept like the dead through roosters crowing, dogs fighting, minarets calling the ...
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Ethiopian Escape
(Nov 01 '07)
As Ethiopians will readily tell you, Ethiopia is more than just famine and coffee. They don’t presume anyone outside their borders knows more than the former and that most people would likely be ...
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Sue and I are ready to return. We have been in Ethiopia for 11 days and have stayed 2 more days than I would have liked (thanks to bad travel agent or airlines, nnot sure which). Our ...
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Back to Addis
(Mar 02 '07)
As usual, we were at the bus station before sunrise. We had bought tickets for Dessie, about half-way to Addis Ababa, because the direct bus for Addis hadn't arrived the previous evening. However, ...
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From Ethiopia with love
(Mar 27 '03)
Dear Everyone!Firstly thank you
very much for all the great emails you've sent us. We are
sorry that we cant always reply to you all, the internet is
unbelievably expensive in Ethiopia, if we ...
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Our flight to Addis was interesting. Mostly because there was a lady being deported on it and she screamed and wailed for a good portion of the flight. There was a very ...
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Back to Ethopia for another hour.
(May 02 '07)
"With a life expectancy of approximately 50 years, Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world."
With a life expectancy of approximately 50 years, Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in ...
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Trip to Awash
(Jun 09 '06)
Sue and I are back from Awash National Park. It was dusty and hot, but very fun. I saw over 80 species of birds in Awash or on the way there, including colorful sunbirds and bee-eaters, and the ...
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Ethiopian Trip
(Jun 09 '06)
This purpose of this journal is to record the events of my trip to Ethiopia to pick up my daughter, Eyerusalem. I will be arriving in Addis Ababa on 8 June and leaving 20 June. The first few days, ...
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