Welcome to Ethiopia

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Why Ethiopia

The reason why we are in Ethiopia starts with a visit to a Colombia shop a few years back. In this store I stumbled over the bored husbands section where the shop provides a few seats, a coffee table and a coffee table book. Not being a bored husband but curious I picked up the book and you guess right it was about Ethiopia. It looked like a great country (as all countries do in those kind of books) full of old stuff to look at. Just what I like and I decided then that I will go to Ethiopia one day… Talk about quick a decision processes…

The one thing to do before going to Ethiopia is to ignore the warnings on the government websites and hope for the best.

Ethiopia seems to be one of the lesser developed and less touristy countries in Africa and to quote Lonely Planet

Ethiopia … is not like anywhere you’ve been before

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Most will remember Ethiopia from the horrid drought in the 80s together with the pictures of starving children and some news about the various wars it has with all its neighbors. What most don’t know is that it’s full of cultural heritage, great food, coffee shops, bizarre tribes and horrific roads.

Going to…

I’m normally a fan of crossing between countries in the good old fashioned way which is overland. Reading in the Lonely Plane

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