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Posted on 1/24/25 at 7:15 am to GOP_Tiger
Very nice of you to share. Thank you!
Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:27 am to La Squared
I'm so glad that y'all enjoyed the report.
I hope more people consider going to Ethiopia. It's an extremely inexpensive country to travel in. In a typical hotel restaurant, you're going to likely spend less than $3 for an appetizer, $6 for a main course if you want lamb or veal, and $1 for a beer or Coke -- it's hard to spend more than $10 for a meal.
As I said, I used Amex points through ANA to book my flights there and back. I used Hilton points for the three total nights I spent in the Hilton Addis. And I used more Amex points through Air Canada Aeroplan to book my flights inside Ethiopia: Addis-Semera, Axum-Addis, Addis-Lalibela, Lalibela-Gondar, and Gondar-Addis. With those caveats, I spent $1250 out of pocket for the whole 12 nights I was there.
I hope more people consider going to Ethiopia. It's an extremely inexpensive country to travel in. In a typical hotel restaurant, you're going to likely spend less than $3 for an appetizer, $6 for a main course if you want lamb or veal, and $1 for a beer or Coke -- it's hard to spend more than $10 for a meal.
As I said, I used Amex points through ANA to book my flights there and back. I used Hilton points for the three total nights I spent in the Hilton Addis. And I used more Amex points through Air Canada Aeroplan to book my flights inside Ethiopia: Addis-Semera, Axum-Addis, Addis-Lalibela, Lalibela-Gondar, and Gondar-Addis. With those caveats, I spent $1250 out of pocket for the whole 12 nights I was there.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 8:54 am to GOP_Tiger
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I hope more people consider going to Ethiopia.
It's always been a top destination for me. One of the few places in Africa that I care to visit. Egypt would be great if it weren't for the Egyptians. Iran is also on my list, just not sure how an American visiting would go over.....
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:06 am to Aubie Spr96
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Egypt would be great if it weren't for the Egyptians
I'm going for Spring Break. I'll do a report for sure. From everything that I read, Egypt is challenging due to omnipresence of touts and scams -- some sophisticated scams, too.
For example, there's a scam that gets run if you take the train from Cairo to Luxor where an official-looking man in a suit comes up to you as you board the train and asks for your name and appears to check it off a list. When you get to Luxor, there's a man holding a sign with your name on it, and you think it's your hotel picking you up, but it's really a taxi driver who takes you to a different hotel to try to convince you to stay there, and if you refuse, then the driver demands an exorbitant fee to take you to the hotel you really booked.
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Iran is also on my list, just not sure how an American visiting would go over
There are people who go. For American tourists to get a visa, you have to book a tour through an approved operator who will be with you for the entire trip (so that the Iranians don't have to worry about you spying on them). That adds to the expense of the trip. But Iran has so many amazing things to see. I'd love to go too, sometime.
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:16 am to GOP_Tiger
Legit cool trip bro
Posted on 1/24/25 at 10:45 am to GOP_Tiger
Thanks for sharing such a great trip!
Curious - what aircraft types were you own while flying w/in Ethiopia?
Curious - what aircraft types were you own while flying w/in Ethiopia?
Posted on 1/24/25 at 11:08 am to TigersnJeeps
Thanks, y'all.
On their domestic flights, Ethiopian exclusively uses Bombardier/De Havilland Q400 Dash 8s. These are twin turboprop planes (not old -- production of those planes began in 1996) with a 2-2 seating arrangement. What's nice about these flights is that Ethiopian gives everyone a 20 kg limit of free checked baggage, so you could check two smallish bags if you like, and I did that several times. The other nice thing is that they do a proper service, even on short flights. On a 1.5 hour flight, you're going to get something like a sandwich or muffin and a drink. I always got helpful and friendly service from Ethiopian Airlines, and everyone working for the airline speaks very good English.
On their domestic flights, Ethiopian exclusively uses Bombardier/De Havilland Q400 Dash 8s. These are twin turboprop planes (not old -- production of those planes began in 1996) with a 2-2 seating arrangement. What's nice about these flights is that Ethiopian gives everyone a 20 kg limit of free checked baggage, so you could check two smallish bags if you like, and I did that several times. The other nice thing is that they do a proper service, even on short flights. On a 1.5 hour flight, you're going to get something like a sandwich or muffin and a drink. I always got helpful and friendly service from Ethiopian Airlines, and everyone working for the airline speaks very good English.
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Posted on 1/24/25 at 1:53 pm to GOP_Tiger
Thanks!
Sounds better than US domestics other than droning of a turboprop...
Sounds better than US domestics other than droning of a turboprop...
Posted on 1/24/25 at 1:57 pm to TigersnJeeps
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Sounds better than US domestics other than droning of a turboprop...
And the other good thing is there are essentially zero obese Ethiopians, so there's little chance of getting your space crowded out by a fat person.
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