Ethiopia

[steveo]

Have any of you globetrotters been to Ethiopia? I keep hearing the words mosquitos, tics, fleas, tapeworm and ghastly food. Is there an upside?

[Brendan]

The day starts at sunrise rather than midnight. Not sure if that's an upside or not but it's different.

[KidKruger]

Ethiopa is a beautiful country and the people are real friendly, generous and accomodating. Friend of mine spent 2 months travelling there (4 years ago) on a motorbike and loved it.

[aalisam]

Hello,

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A.

[Loz]

Good grief - most of Ethiopia is a high risk malaria zone. You want anti-malarials and full strength DEET-based repellent. Some pleasantly fragrances oils will be as useful as a paper umbrella in a monsoon.

[aalisam]

lol!

[steveo]

I went and amazingly was unstung. I've had more trouble with the blighters in my own garden. Does anyone want to buy an unused mozzie net?

But the food was awful

[Loz]

Going to a country that has suffered some of the biggest famines in modern times and then complaining about the food seems a trifle harsh.

[Ridgley]

I suppose you have good parts and bad parts in any country.

[northlondoner]

Spent a week there for work last year. Once you get out of addis it's gorgeous lush gently undulating countryside .

Very historic - check out the ancient churches at Lalibela . Jaw dropping. But to my shame my overwhelming impression of the place was that it had an abnormally high proportion of stunningly beautiful women. I don't mean pretty or good looking . I mean women who are works of art, brought to blessed life by a benificent Almighty. Faces that dazzle the eye and pierce the heart. At every bus stop, every market stall, every supermarket checkout every passing car. From age 18 to 80. Everywhere you look, beauty , beauty , beauty. In the end it became slightly surreal - as if you were trapped in a blissed out narcotic haze of inscrutable eternal beauty. Sigh. Food was ok.

[MrCheeky]

stick with bognor youll be safe :)-D

[ilondoner]

I've been reliably informed that God goes to Ethiopia for his holidays

[RosieH]

I rather like Ethiopian food. But then I haven't had it in Ethiopia.

[Alan Medic]

Are you a poet northlondoner?

[northlondoner]

Ha! Alan M, only upon returning from Ethiopia....

[Huguenot]

Excellent! You should work for their tourist office. It's now officially on my go-to list!

[steveo]

Try the blog.

Ethiopia is vast and the famine is down the road a good way from where I stayed

We found good food but they make an appalling bread called injera, which very likely could. It's like a slimy wet cloth and looks like stomach lining