Ethiopia 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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

Harar is in the east of Ethiopia. It has a real middle eastern feel and there are a higher proportion of Muslims here than in the rest of the country. The minarets of mosques pepper are everywhere. It is quite an exotic place though there seemed to be a lot more beggars and people with various defo…

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

This trip was an adventure but not one which I am in a hurry to repeat! Had quite a few scary moments and was happy to get out of there safe and well..

6 weeks of waking up early to catch the bus driving on things that shouldn't be called roads.

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.

Amazing nature in southern Ethiopia among enormous crocodiles.

Postcards I have received from around the world... a work in progress because this is my new (and addicting) hobby! I love sending/receiving postcards from my TB friends...and I've even gotten my family into sending me postcards too! :)

not sure who I upset to be sent here but yes Nigeria here I come.

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…