Getting out of Addis

Our big discovery in Addis was a fantastic coffee shop and the Ride app. The ride app provides cheap, reliable rides wherever you want to go in the city.
We traveled uptown to a coffee shop called Tomoka

 There are no seats just high tables to set your exquisite coffee on. We have become fans of macchiatos. Ethiopia is the birth place of coffee and they also do an elaborate coffee ceremony. 
St George's Church in the Piaza area
While uptown we also went to a vegetarian buffet at the oldest hotel in Addis. 
a traditional meal of injera and lamb stew
The rest of our time was devoted to procuring a bus ticket out of town. When we finally found the ticket agent we were faced with an enormous line up. We had to have our tickets translated as they have a different time system and calendar. Time starts at sunrise 0000hr and counts up to 1200hr which is sunset. Then the same thing happens for the night hours.
I have no idea how their calendar works.
Our bus left at 0500 am so we had to get up at 0400am . It was a relatively comfortable ride lasting about 12 hours.
Finally we made it to Bahir Dar and lake Tana.

Comments

  1. Dan28 January 2020 at 05:31

    All we hear about in Canada from Ethiopia is drought,flood and clouds of locus. Must be fake news!!! The coffee and lamb stew look and sound wonderful. The time and calendar would take time to get used to. Does the time in relation to the sun rise change every day as does the sun rise?
    Love,
    Kathy and Dan

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    1. Yammy S14 February 2020 at 03:18

      No change. Guess Ethiopia is close enough to Equator that it's not worth complicating things.

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