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ENTRY No. 021 · FIRST LOGGED 2024
🇪🇹 Ethiopia
Africa
The cradle of coffee and kings.
✦ Why it's worth the airfare
- Lalibela's rock churches
- The Simien Mountains
- The Omo Valley
🧭 Cities & regions
Tap a city to drill in. Each fills out with journals & photos as I add them.
⚑ General tips
Transport
- Domestic flights save days over rough overland routes — book via Ethiopian Airlines.
- Hire a driver-guide for the historic north.
Etiquette
- Eat with your right hand from the shared injera.
- Accept all three rounds of the coffee ceremony — it's an honour.
Money & misc
- The calendar is 7–8 years behind and the clock starts at dawn — confirm times twice.
- Addis sits at 2,400m; pace yourself the first day.
📱 Apps & services
- Maps.meoffline maps — connectivity is thin outside Addis
- Feres / RIDElocal ride-hailing in the capital
- telebirrthe mobile-money wallet locals use
- Google TranslateAmharic pack, with caveats
✎ Journals from Ethiopia
No journals from Ethiopia yet — this fills in automatically the moment I publish one tagged to Ethiopia.