Day 87 – A visit to our ancestors?

Addis Ababa, Lion’s Den Hotel

First stop the Hilton to buy our tickets for the rest of our travels in Ethiopia, Ethiopian Airlines have a great deal – 5 flights for US$220 – stopping at four other cities in northern Ethiopia, and then back to Addis. When you consider that some of the bus trips between the places we're planning to visit can take up to two days, then we had no qualms about choosing to fly!

From there we walked to the National Museum, where we saw an interesting exhibition on human anthropology, including a model of the famous “Lucy”. Then on to the Ethnological Museum at the University, which also happened to be the old palace of the last Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. There were some great displays there - information on the different Ethiopian tribes and their customs, and different memorabilia (paintings, crosses, bibles) from the various Ethiopian churches dating back to around the 4th century.

A taxi back (we had walked a long way today, most of it uphill too!), followed by dinner at the same place as last night (the Greek Club across the road from the hotel - which also happens to be near the Greek school and the Greek Consulate!).