Addis Ababa, Lion’s Den Hotel
The flight from Kigali to Addis took off around 45 minutes late – so we were in the air around 2:15am. The Entebbe leg was short, a lot of people disembarked there, and were replaced by another set of passengers. We touched down around 6:45am, very tired and bleary eyed as sleep was elusive for both of us.
We were taken by bus to the domestic terminal, which wasn’t geared up to issue us a visa on arrival. After some delay we were herded onto another bus and taken to the international terminal. Then of course, as our luggage was still at the other terminal we had to wait for it to be delivered, so when we finally exited the airport and met up with the driver arranged by our hotel, it was 8am – our poor driver had been waiting two hours for us!
The hotel didn’t have a room for us yet, so we managed a bit of breakfast before catching a short nap in a temporary room provided by our very accommodating hosts. After that, a walk up the street to find an ATM, which gave us our first proper look at Addis.
Back at the hotel our room was ready, and as we were so tired the rest of the day was pretty much a write-off. We did manage to go across the road for dinner, but that was about it. Hopefully tomorrow will be more exciting!
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