| Ethiopia & Eritrea (Country Guide) |  | Authors: Jean-Bernard Carillet, Stuart Butler, David Lukas, Dean Starnes
Publisher: Lonely Planet
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ISBN: 1741048141
Dewey Decimal Number: 916
EAN: 9781741048148
ASIN: 1741048141
Publication Date: December 1, 2009
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Explore Ethiopia and Eritrea with the people who know it best: Lonely Planet. Discover ancient churches and cities frozen in time, trek the dramatic landscape of the Simien and Bale Mountains, and go diving in the thriving reefs of the Dahlak Islands. Explore Asmara's astounding Italian Art Deco architecture and finish the day with the perfect macchiato.
Lonely Planet guides are written by experts who get to the heart of every destination they visit. This fully updated edition is packed with accurate, practical and honest advice, designed to give you the information you need to make the most of your trip.
In This Guide:
Tailored trips to get you up close with history and nature
Take a hike or dance the day away with our festivals and activities chapter
Green Index to make your travels ecofriendly
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 useful guide March 15, 2010
Yvette Stanton (Sydney, Australia)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
We have used this book extensively during our several-month visit to Ethiopia. It contains good information, which has been useful and helpful.
Some things I would love to have improved in future editions:
- maps of Addis are really hard to come by. A REALLY good map of the city of Addis, taking several pages would be extremely helpful. Sure, you could use Google Maps, but have you noticed how terrible internet connections in Ethiopia tend to be?!
- a much more extensive, cross referenced index. The index of this book really lets it down. It is not extensive enough. It might take up several more pages to improve it, with more entries, but that would make the book so much more useful!
We have done the Northern Tour, and found the information about the different places and their sites to be very interesting. Especially in places like Axum, where myth and legend are presented as fact, the LP helped to keep our feet on the ground and heads out of the clouds, and to just enjoy the stories our guide presented for what they were: entertaining stories.
The shoe minder information for Lalibela (on tipping them) was very useful. We were ready to tip our shoe minder for her helpful service - three times we tried - but she refused each time. We think that she felt she was getting the benefit from us, by being allowed to spend a couple of hours with two very cute Western kids, one of whom has extremely blonde hair!
The information on museums in Addis was also useful, though some indication of opening days and hours, and entry prices (it wasn't included for all museum listings) would have been helpful. Public holidays meant that some we visited were closed, but LP gave us no indication of that.
Overall, a great book, with excellent information. Wouldn't have come here without it.
 Good, but not great. April 28, 2010
Godfried Meesters
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was in Ethiopia in January this year, using this Dec. 2009 edition of this book.
Almost all hotel prices were higher in Ethiopia than in this book. In Gonder I wanted to sleep in the "Genetics Guesthouse", recommended by this Lonely Planet as "our pick". When the hotel owner showed me my room, I couldn't breathe for an instant because of the strong smell of urine that came out of the bathroom. In addition, the price was birr 200 instead of the 150 indicated by the LP.
This Lonely Planet edition also didn't mention that nowadays, you have ATM's in most cities that accept debit cards (like Maestro), so no need anymore to change large amounts of euros/dollars or get money the expensive way using your credit card.
Still, this Lonely Planet is much better than nothing, but it's not as accurate as the Lonely Planets I'm used to.
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