Addis Ababa Travel Blogs

The next morning I awoke and had nice chats with some volunteers and learned about their awesome experiences.  One was a young Canadian fellow who had been working on water irrigation projects in many different areas...sounded very interesting!  Eventually, I headed out, taking some loc…

DXB - ADD This was the third leg of our trip: the first being Phoenix - New York, the second was New York - Dubai, and this Dubai - Addis Ababa and finally we will leave Addis Ababa - Entebbe. The hotel wake-up call came through promptly at 6:00 a.m. I was awake two hours earlier unable to sleep d…

December 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-10I became pretty busy with preparing the project and making sure all the logistic was ready, especially all the documents on the first week of December. So I had some more talk with Anteneh, who made the phone calls and so on. The training orientation for the Kebele yout…

Yes - that's ME wearing a suit in Africa.   Back in my San Francisco life, I am involved as a “young leader” in an organization called the American Jewish Committee.  This is one of America’s first civil rights groups -  established in 1906 • to promote pluralistic and demo…

We checked in for our flight from Bahir Dar to Addis ... only to be told that the flight had been overbooked.  A large group had checked in first so they were on ... leaving us and a number of locals in the lurch.  We were rebooked onto a later flight in the early afternoon. Even though …

Brian and I quit our jobs in Holland and left Amsterdam in October 2005. We spent several months backpacking from Ethiopia down to South Africa then up to Zambia. Heres just a few highlights of our trip.

So, I got to Addis Ababa safe and met up with Geneti, a good friend from college.  It's quite funny.  My first night there and I'm giving the dude directions.  Read the bloody signs, son.  Anyways, we went straight to a club after I got there and didn't get to bed until around 5…

My work often takes me to the beautiful nation of Qatar, and many surrounding nations. Although I've made this journey many times, I'll combine my blog into one specific time period.

Start off from 10 weeks in Namibia for a 10-week Expedition. Then, travel around the Southern Africa and Eastern Africa.

In a perfect world with no flight cancellations or delays, and where someone could hop from plane to plane within 15 minutes, how many countries can a person visit in the shortest possible time? Here's one possibility using July 2006 timetables.

Had a quick look at the shops and Dad bought a CD, then went through to our gate. Got a few messages from Susan which was nice - they're in Jo'burg and she has a few days off before heading back as the found another cook for the Zambia-Kenya trip. Our flight took off at 12:40am, this time on time t…

This is the one to blame, my first taste of Africa! What a beautiful country. Worked there for 3 weeks, and knew then I'd be back to this beautiful continent!

I got to go on tour all around the northern hemisphere with Fergie and the Black Eyed Peas in 2007. Places like Moscow, Bucharest, Budapest, Tel Aviv, Addis Ababa, Almaty, Stockholm, London, Cyprus, and a few others. The single most memorable trip I have ever taken!

Amazing nature in southern Ethiopia among enormous crocodiles.

October 16th 2005 We flew back to the capital of Ethiopia, Addia Ababa. The Lonely Planet refers to it as "the cheap and cheerful capital that grows on you surprisingly quickly"My impression was of a sprawling, unlovely city with pockets of affluence, but huge areas of desperate poverty. There were…