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SELAMTA VOLUME 23, NUMBER 2

News / Destinations / Feature Stories / In-flight Information / In-flight Entertainment Adding four new destinations to our global route network: • Brussels • Dakar • Libreville • Juba Cover+spine.indd 1

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MESSAGE FROM THE CEO

Sixty Years Young!

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“Dedication brought us this far, and passion will take us even farther.”

thiopian Airlines has reached another important milestone this year with the celebration of 60 years of flying. We are proud of this achievement, not only for all the employees of the Airline, past and present, but also for the people of Ethiopia and, indeed, Africa at large who have seen the organization go from strength to strength, successfully leading the fast-changing aviation market and pioneering new aviation technology.

Just how far the Airline has progressed since its early days in the 1940s is covered in the pages of this edition of Selamta. It is important to remember the obstacles that were overcome, and the dedication of many of our early staff, but it is equally important to consider the present and the future.

During the last 60 years Ethiopian has played a pivotal role in the socio-economic development of the African continent, in both good and tough times, by bringing Africa together and closer to the world. It has always been an engine for greater mobility and freedom of movement.

As Africa’s world-class airline we recognize that you value comfort and convenience above all. Consequently we have transformed Ethiopian by improving all aspects of the Airline, from ticketing to in-flight service, to our growing route network and continual upgrading of our fleet.

We can hardly wait for 2008, when our new Boeing 787 “Dreamliners” arrive. These ultra-modern aircraft will elevate Ethiopian into even higher levels of excellence and passenger comfort. We are delighted that our modern passenger terminal at Bole International Airport has been universally well-received. Its facilities and attractive design have quickly made it one of the finest airport terminals in Africa.

In our quest to remain the leading African airline we will continue to explore more long-haul destinations, making the ‘global village’ increasingly accessible whilst developing more inbound tourism for Ethiopia. From March 2006, for instance, we have added Brussels in Belgium, Dakar in Senegal, Juba in Sudan and Libreville in Gabon to our route network.

We have reached where we are today because of the great professional men and women around the globe who really work hard to maintain our leading position in the African airline industry. I pay tribute to them all and say a big “thank you”. But the biggest “thank you” goes to you, the customer, whose patronage is the essence of our success.

We appreciate your strong support and confidence in the Airline that has been evidenced by a significant increase in passenger numbers in recent years.

As always, we appreciate your business. On behalf of the entire Ethiopian Airlines team I thank you for choosing Ethiopian. We look forward to serving you on your next flight.

Enjoy your flight.

Girma Wake Chief Executive Officer, Ethiopian Airlines April - June 2006

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selamta Volume 23, Number 2 • April - June 2006 The In-Flight Magazine of

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CONTENTS

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Ethiopian Airlines: A Proud History 8th April 1946-2006.

15 Making an airline ‘Ethiopian’

Talking to three important contributors who helped put ‘Ethiopian’ in front of ‘Airlines’.

DESTINATIONS

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34 Destination Brussels

New York has the Statue of Liberty, London has Admiral Nelson, and Brussels has its Mannekin Pis - a statue of a naked little boy supposedly turned to stone when a wicked witch found him relieving himself against the wall of her house.

Cover: Douglas DC-3 (C-47)

38 Destination Dakar 48 Destination Libreville 54 Destination Juba

FEATURES 40 Travels in Cyberspace

Get a grip on that mouse and prepare to start pounding the keyboard.

46 Ethiopia by Bike The last challenge.

50 Pamper Yourself

Spas are not just the latest thing for health, beauty and relaxation – they are also one of the oldest.

56 Here be Elephants

Some weighty advice on where to get the best sightings of everyone’s favourite animal.

62 Flying High

Looking into the history of flags unfurls some fascinating facts.

64 Africa’s Five Seek World Cup Glory

African teams may not have won the World Cup yet, but they have upset the former West Germany, the Argentineans, the Spanish and the French; flooded and thoroughly enriched European football; and added flavour and magic to world football.

68 Robel Teklemariam – Gold is not all that glitters He finished 84th out of 99 competitors in his race at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, but Robel Teklemariam grabbed even more headlines than the race winner after becoming the first Ethiopian to compete in the Winter Olympics.

90 Addis Ababa’s New Shopping Centres

With no colonial impact on its architecture, Addis Ababa’s skyline has grown haphazardly as a result of initiatives taken by state and private developers with strong indigenous roots.

The views expressed in this magazine should only be ascribed to the authors concerned, and do not necessarily reflect the views either of the publishers or of Ethiopian Airlines. The printing of an advertisement in Selamta does not necessarily mean that the publishers or Ethiopian Airlines endorse the company, product or service advertised.

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REGULARS 1

CEO’s Message

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Ethiopian News

18 Ethiopian Fleet 20 International Route Map 22 Ethiopian Offices 25 Ethiopian Cargo 26 Ethiopia: The Magic Land 60 Ethiopia Through the Millennia 73 Healthy Travelling 74 Travel Tips for the Traveller in Ethiopia 75 Ethiopian Entertainment 76 Duty Free 82 Using your Personal Entertainment System 84 In-flight Entertainment (Short Programmes & Movies) 88 In-flight Entertainment (Music) 94 Dining Out in Ethiopia 96 Crossword Puzzle & Sudoku April - June 2006

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ETHIOPIAN NEWS

E-Ticketing Launched

Travel Agencies Awarded in Nairobi

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ABOVE: Mr. Siad Mohammed Nur from Nairobi is the first passenger to be issued with an e-ticket receipt. Looking on is Mr. Solomon Debebe, Area Manager Kenya.

In February, Ethiopian launched its e-ticketing service on the Addis Ababa/Nairobi route. This will subsequently be introduced on the Johannesburg, Frankfurt and Washington DC routes and will gradually be made available throughout Ethiopian’s route network. Using this new system, passengers will no longer need to carry paper tickets and making changes on their travel itineraries will be easier. 500 bonus miles will be awarded to those who use this facility until May 30th, 2006. Ethiopian has also expanded its online booking coverage to include more than 30 international destinations and continues to offer 5% discount for bookings made through its website, www.ethiopianairlines.com.

New Destinations

In December, Ethiopian’s Nairobi office hosted an award ceremony to recognize top selling travel agents. The event was held at the Hilton Nairobi in the presence of invited guests, the travel trade community and Ethiopian staff. Mr. Solomon Debebe, Area Manager Kenya, handed out certificates and cash prizes to travel agents, including the top three, Bunson Travel Services, Express Travel Group and Acharaya Travel Agencies. Mr. Solomon said that Ethiopian will work closer with travel agencies to serve the travelling public effectively.

Agents Honoured in Dar es Salaam

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As part of its growth strategy and continued efforts to provide passengers with seamless connections via its route network, Ethiopian is starting passenger flights to Brussels, Dakar, Libreville and Juba between March and June 2006. Ethiopian is scheduled to operate four times a week to Dakar and Libreville and will fly three times a week to Brussels and Juba.

Ethiopian Leases Additional Aircraft To accommodate the increasing number of passengers and complement its existing commercial fleet, Ethiopian has recently leased two Boeing 757-200 passenger aircraft. Registered as ET-ALY and ETALZ, these will enable Ethiopian to increase the frequency of its flights to some destinations and will also be operating on the new routes in Africa and Europe. The aircraft underwent scheduled maintenance at Ethiopian’s maintenance and engineering facility before commencing commercial service.

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Ethiopian awarded 19 travel agents in Dar es Salaam for their contribution and support to Ethiopian. Mr. Busera Awol, the Airline’s Director of Marketing and Sales Operations handed out certificates and cash prizes at a ceremony held in December at the Kilimanjaro Kempinski Hotel. Mrs. Martha Tilahun, Area Manager Tanzania thanked the travel agents for their continued support and patronage.

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ETHIOPIAN NEWS

Ethiopian Concludes Agreement...

45 Years Young in Ghana

ABOVE: Mr. Girma Wake, Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines (left) with Mr. Murray Smyth. Looking on are Mr. Mesfin Tasew, Chief Information Officer (left) and Mr. Hencok Woubishet, Senior Project Manager, Marketing & Sales Systems of Ethiopian.

ABOVE: Mr. Busera Awol, Director of Marketing & Sales Operations of Ethiopian cutting the cake.

Ethiopian has signed a contract with Sabre Airline Solutions for its Passenger Management System (PMS) and will be migrating onto the SabreSonic Passenger Solutions technology platform by the end of 2006. Ethiopian will use SabreSonic reservations, online booking, e-ticketing, code–sharing and departure control systems. It will also use the Sabre Traveller Loyalty system to manage its ShebaMiles programme. The agreement was signed by Mr. Girma Wake, Chief Executive Officer of Ethiopian Airlines and Mr. Murray Smyth, Sabre Airline Solutions’ Senior Vice President for Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

Ethiopian’s 45 years of dedicated service to Accra, Ghana was celebrated at a cocktail reception held on November 28th, 2005 at the Novotel Hotel in Accra. Government ministers, ambassadors, chief of staff of aviation from the state house, travel agents, business partners and members of the Ethiopian community attended the event. Mr. Mengistu Adelahu, Area Manager Ghana, said that “Ethiopian once again renews its commitment for a continued delivery of efficient and professional services, and will work even harder towards further strengthening the ties between Ethiopian and Ghana”. Ethiopian currently flies four times a week to Accra using Boeing 767-300ERs and Boeing 757-200s.

Celebrating 40th Anniversary in Uganda Ethiopian celebrated its 40th Anniversary in Uganda at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Kampala in February. The occassion was attended by H.E Patrick Sanya, Commissioner of Transport Regulation of Uganda, H.E Ambassador Tesfaye Habiso, Ambassador of Ethiopia to Uganda, Mr. Bekele Kidane, Director of Addis Ababa Hub Airport Operations of Ethiopian, ambassadors and members of the travel agency community.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Uganda congratulated Ethiopian for its “regular, efficient, and sustained service to the people of Uganda.” Mrs. Ermejachew Regassa, Area Manager Uganda, said “Africa has always had a special place in Ethiopian’s success and it has worked relentlessly to bring African nations and people closer than ever before. Ethiopian has the most extensive network in Africa, a testament to our commitment to Africa.”

Ethiopian commenced scheduled flights to the Ugandan capital, Kampala, on November 5, 1965 and currently operates daily flights to Kampala using brand-new Boeing Next Generation 737-700s.

ABOVE: Mrs. Ermejachew Regassa, Area Manager Uganda, H.E Ambassador Tesfaye Habiso, Ambassador of Ethiopia to Uganda, H.E Patrick Sanya, Commissioner of Transport Regulation of Uganda and Mr. Bekele Kidane, Director of Addis Ababa Hub Airport Operations of Ethiopian at the ceremony held at the Sheraton Kampala.

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The Beginning

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Celebrating Ethiopian Airlines

A Proud History 8th April 1946: The first scheduled flight took place to Cairo via Asmara in a Douglas C-47 Skytrain. The national airline had been set up a few months earlier as Ethiopian Air Lines Inc., a joint venture with the American airline, TWA (Trans World Airlines). Five US Government surplus C-47 aircraft were purchased for the venture. Following the successful inaugural flight to Cairo, a regular weekly service was established. Weekly services to Djibouti and Aden followed, as well as a domestic service to Jimma. Demands for additional services were so great that towards the end of 1946, four more C-47 Skytrains were purchased. Since these aircraft were ex-US military, they had few comforts; all had folding bench-type canvas seats along the sides, with the central aisle kept clear so that cargo could be lashed to the floor.

1947: Three more Skytrains were purchased for the international routes. These were fitted out in a ‘luxury’ layout with 21 forward facing seats and were the first to wear the colourful Ethiopian Airlines livery.

During the late 1940s the route network was extended to Nairobi, Port Sudan and Bombay. Charter flights were also flown to Jeddah during the Hajj season, carrying pilgrims to Makkah.

1950: Two Convair 240 aircraft were purchased, followed later by a third, for use on foreign routes. These higher-performance aircraft had fully furnished interiors and seats for 36 passengers. Their pressurised cabins allowed the aircraft to fly higher, in smoother air.

By the end of 1952 the faithful Skytrains were still the mainstay of the domestic routes, linking 21 towns and cities to the capital, and carrying both passengers and cargo.

1953: Three quarters of the airline’s staff were now Ethiopian but expatriates still held most key posts. The Ethiopian government negotiated a new agreement with TWA with the ultimate aim of operating entirely with Ethiopian personnel.

1957: The first Ethiopian commercial aircraft commander, Alemayehu Abebe, made his solo flight as captain on a DC-3/C-47 aircraft.

The National Airline Training Project was set up with US Government help in Addis Ababa to train local pilots, technicians and supervisory personnel.

The airline established its own maintenance facility at Addis Ababa, reducing the need for maintenance overseas. In subsequent years the facilities expanded into a well-equipped centre for maintenance, overhaul and modification work on aircraft, engines and avionic systems, not only for its own aircraft, but also for other airlines in the region.

The route network expanded with flights to Frankfurt.

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1958: Three DC-6B Cloudmasters were purchased. These four-engined, 71-seat aircraft were used on the long-haul routes.

1960: The airline prepared to enter the jet age and decided that the Boeing 720B best met its requirements. However, the existing airfield serving Addis Ababa – Lidetta, which had been built in 1936 – was not suitable for jet operation, which required a longer runway, and a decision was made to construct an entirely new airport and headquarters at Bole.

1961: A new east-west service was inaugurated, linking Addis Ababa with Monrovia in Liberia, via Khartoum and Accra. This was the first direct air link between east and west Africa operated by any airline.

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By December the new runway and control tower at Bole International Airport were operational and two Boeing 720Bs arrived on their delivery flights. Ethiopian was the first airline in Africa to order the Boeing 720B.

1963: On 15th January the airline inaugurated its first jet service, from Bole to Nairobi. The following day the second Boeing inaugurated a new route to Madrid, via Asmara and Athens. Meanwhile the elderly Skytrains and their related civilian DC-3s continued to fly the domestic and cargo services and six further DC-3s were bought during the next decade. Despite their age, these aircraft were ideally suited to Ethiopia’s rugged terrain and high altitude.

1965: The company changed its legal status from a corporation to a share company. At the same time the title was changed from Ethiopian Air Lines to Ethiopian Airlines.

1971: Colonel Semret Medhane was appointed general manager, the first Ethiopian to hold the position.

1977: A Boeing 720B flight simulator was acquired, making the airline independent of foreign airlines for its pilot training.

1979: Two Boeing 727s were purchased for medium-range routes, to replace the oldest Boeing 720s.

1982: The airline bought a third Boeing 727 and two de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo short-field transports for use on domestic services.

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1984: Ethiopian Airlines attracted worldwide attention on 1st June when its first Boeing 767 landed at Bole after a thirteen-and-a-half hour delivery flight from New York – setting a new world distance record for commercial twin-jets. The airline, which was a launch customer for the new aircraft, bought two of the advanced, wide-bodied B-767 aircraft to replace the ageing Boeing 720s. In addition to their 190-seat passenger capacity the aircraft could carry 12 tonnes of cargo in the hold.

At the end of 1985, when the DC-3/Skytrains started to be withdrawn, the airline still had nine of these in service, all of them at least 40 years old. The last of these aircraft remained in service until October 1991. The main replacements were six 18-seater DHC-6 Twin Otters, and – for the busier domestic routes – two ATR-42s: fast and modern 46-seater aircraft.

1989: The Cargo Management Department was established to afford special attention to the development of the airline’s cargo services. Hitherto the airline had regarded its cargo operations more as a public service commitment than as a secondary source of revenue.

1995: The airline’s Engineering Division opened a new purpose-built jet engine test facilitiy, allowing engines of up to 45,000kg (100,000lbs) thrust to be ground tested.

April 1996: As the airline celebrated its 50th anniversary the route network stretched from Europe (London, Frankfurt and Rome) to China (Beijing) and Thailand (Bangkok). The Middle East and Indian sub-continent were well represented, and the airline’s African routes reached Senegal and Ivory Coast in the west, Cairo in the north, and Johannesburg and Durban in the south. The fleet consisted of two ATR-42 and four DHC-6 Twin Otters for the domestic passenger services, one Boeing 737 and four Boeing 757 aircraft for the medium range passenger services and three Boeing 767s for long-range services. For its cargo and non-scheduled services the airline had one Boeing 707 freighter, one Boeing 757 freighter, two Lockheed L-100 Commercial Hercules and one DHC-5 Buffalo.

The pilot training school was equipped with a state-of-the-art flight simulator, replicating the flight deck of the Boeing 767. The simulator was also used to train crews on the Boeing 757, whose flight deck is similar.

In October 1996 the first of five Fokker 50s was acquired to enhance the domestic services.

1998: Another giant leap was made with the launch of a twice-weekly service to Washington – the Airline’s first destination in the Americas – and New York followed shortly after.

1999: In February the ShebaMiles frequent flyer programme was launched. Construction started on a new, ultra-modern terminal building at Bole International Airport to upgrade passenger services and cater for an anticipated increase in traffic. In November Scandinavia was brought into the route network for the first time with a new service to Copenhagen, Denmark, along with a new route to Maputo, Mozambique.

2002: The airline embarked on a period of sustained growth and fleet modernization with plans to purchase, over the next four years, 12 new aircraft. Six Next-Generation B737-700s and six B767-300ERs were scheduled to replace the existing two B737-200s and two B767200s. In October night operations out of Addis Ababa were introduced, to supplement the daytime flights.

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2003: The new, 3,800 metre runway and control tower at Bole International Airport became operational, along with the spacious new airport terminal with its 21st-century facilities. Renovation of the older terminal began, to serve mainly domestic flights.

As the year drew to a close the first two of the new Boeing 767300ER and 737-700 aircraft arrived at Bole.

2005: Ethiopian Airlines announced that it would be Africa’s launch carrier for the new Boeing 787 ‘Dreamliner, with a firm order for ten of these ultra-modern jets, and an option on five more.

The order for the new fuel-efficient, longrange, passenger-friendly aircraft, was valued at US$1.3 billion. Boeing begins production of the revolutionary new aircraft in 2006 and Ethiopian expects to take delivery from 2008.

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Making an airline ‘Ethiopian’ As Ethiopian Airlines celebrates 60 years of dedicated service to its customers, Elshadai Negash talks to three important contributors who helped put ‘Ethiopian’ in front of ‘Airlines’.

“We are lucky to have been able to see this air-train today. We hope we shall live to see our own young men flying and building it.”

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hese words were uttered by the-then Ethiopian governor Dejach Emeru in September 1929 after seeing the French Captain André Malliet land an aeroplane for the first time on Ethiopian territory.

It took another 17 years before Ethiopian Airlines (then named Ethiopian Air Lines Inc.) was set up as a joint venture with the American airline, TWA (Trans World Airlines). But the pride and passion of having the word ‘Ethiopian’ in front of ‘Airlines’ has run throughout its history.

In 1957 the first Ethiopian commercial aircraft commander, Captain Alemayehu Abebe, was appointed. The year 1962 was a turning point for technical services with Ethiopians showing that they are capable of running critical maintenance activities, while in 1971, the first Ethiopian general manager, Semret Medhane, took office.

“The transition to Ethiopianisation had started earlier, but it took more than 25 years to fully realise,” recalls Medhane. “The drive to this was national pride and, of course, economic benefit.”

To realise Ethiopianisation across the airline, the key aspect was to recruit and train personnel capable of carrying out important operations even more efficiently than foreigners. While the number of Ethiopian personnel at the airline rose from 46 percent in 1947 to 77 percent in 1953, the process took longer than expected in technical departments.

“I think 1962 was a major coup for Technical Services,” says Captain Mohammed Ahmed, the man who established the Airline’s engineering department. “It was a time where the first jet was bought.”

Prior to that time all major maintenance work was performed by Americans at the airline or abroad. “I remember one day in that year there was a major technical problem,” he recalls. “All the Americans said that the problem should be sorted out by Boeing oversees, but we said that we could do it in-house. The case was referred to the board and after some deliberation, we were given the go-ahead.”

The maintenance work would have cost the airline millions of dollars if something had gone horribly wrong, but was Ahmed and his colleagues fully confident of their ability? “I was not 100 percent confident,” he admits. “But I was also sure that we would not fail. We could always get technical assistance from Boeing.”

Ahmed and his colleagues were true to their word. “The taboo was gone,” he recalls. “We managed to do it and it was the start of the Ethiopian technical excellence.”

Now that confidence was gained by the Ethiopian technical staff,

the next key point was to ensure continuity of the operations, both technical and administrative.

And so, when Medhane became the first Ethiopian general manager in 1971, his main objective was to continue with Ethiopianisation.

“Every year we replaced more and more expatriates with Ethiopian staff,” he says. “But for this to happen continuously, we knew that we needed people who were capable of handling key operations.”

Medhane slimmed down the number of foreigners from 90 to 20 during his four-year period as the general manager. “My emphasis was on human resource development,” he says. “I tried to put in place a structure where we developed our human resources both in quality and quantity as well as injecting a working culture throughout the airline.”

His drastic changes in management went down well with nearly all the Ethiopians at the airline, but there was some opposition outside.

“Some people claimed that I did not have the right image for a general manager,” he says. “I did not wear a three-piece suit, did not play golf, and did not over-emphasize on respect. What I tried to have at the airline was an open system whereby people were responsible for their work and loved what they did.”

This structure set up by Medhane has been used down the years and made working at the airline one of the most glamorous jobs in Ethiopia.

“There is what you call the Ethiopian Airlines life,” says Ahmed. “Many dream of that life in Ethiopia. Many within and outside the airline associate it with glamour.”

Today, the challenges for the current management are of a different kind. “We are losing staff to our competitors,” says Girma Wake, the current Chief Executive Officer. “The brain drain is affecting us very much.”

In meeting the present-day situation the administration has had to go back to the basics of training more and more Ethiopian personnel, as well as improving working and financial conditions for existing employees. “We have tried to establish smooth communication within the airline and provide better pay for the employees since I was assigned here in 2004,” Wake says.

In 60 years the airline has more than fulfilled the visions of an ambitious governor in the 1930s who dreamt of seeing ‘his own men’ fly the air-train. And, once unheard of, women are now finding their place in the cockpit in what was once considered a male-dominated profession.

“We have the potential for growth in all aspects,” says Wake. “We hope to provide bigger and better services with our own staff.”

And that is how they have put the Ethiopian in front of the airline!

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Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines proudly announce the launch of the Ethiopian Airlines 787 Dreamliner.

It’s the beginning of a new era in commercial air travel.

An era of remarkable innovation, comfort and efficiency.

By choosing the Boeing 787, Ethiopian Airlines will offer passengers a cleaner, quieter, more comfortable airplane.

An airplane that redefines the flying experience and helps airlines fly passengers to more places, nonstop.

It’s a new era whose time has come.

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ETHIOPIAN FLEET Ethiopian Airlines Current Commercial Fleet Long Range Passenger Services

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Boeing 767-300 ER Seat Capacity: (ET-ALL) Cloud Nine, 30; Economy Class, 206. Total: 236.

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 186,879 kgs;

Medium Range Passenger Services

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Landing, 145,149 kgs; Zero Fuel, 133,809 kgs.

1 Boeing 737-260:

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6 Boeing 757-260:

ET-AJX, ET-AKC, ET-AKE, ET-AKF

Seat Capacity: (ET-ALC) Cloud Nine, 24;

ET-ALY, ET-ALZ

Economy Class, 220. Total: 244.

5 Boeing 737-700:

ET-ALK, ET-ALQ, ET-ALM, ET-ALU,

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 185,065 kgs;

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Landing, 145,149 kgs; Zero Fuel, 130,634 kgs.

Operating Weight: 92,230 kgs.

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Seat Capacity: (ET-ALH) Cloud Nine, 30;

ET-AKV

Economy Class, 216. Total: 246.

3 De Havilland Canada DHC 6 Twin Otters:

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 186,880 kgs; ET-AIN, ET-AIT, ET-AIX

Landing, 145,149 kgs; Zero Fuel, 133,809 kgs.

Operating Weight: 91,394 kgs.

Cargo and Non-Scheduled Services

Fuel Capacity: 73,369 kgs.

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1 Boeing 757-260 Freighter: ET-AJS

Engines: PW4062.

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Sea Level Thrust — LB: 62,000.

Seat Capacity: (ET-ALJ, ET-ALO & ET-ALP) Cloud Nine, 24; Economy Class, 218. Total: 242.

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 186,880 kgs; Landing, 145,149 kgs; Zero Fuel, 133,809 kgs.

Operating Weight: 95,083 kgs.

Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner A super-efficient airplane with new passenger-pleasing

Coming Soon

features. It will bring the economics of large jet transports to the middle of the market, using 20 percent less fuel than any

Bulk Cargo Volume: 3,770 Cu.ft.

Fuel Capacity: 77,256 kgs.

Engines: PW4062.

Sea Level Thrust — LB: 62,000.

other airplane of its size.

Seating: 210 to 250 passengers Range: 8,000 to 8,500 nautical miles (14,800 to 15,700 km) Configuration: Twin aisle Cross Section: 226 inches (574 centimetres) Wing Span: 197 feet (60 metres) Length: 186 feet (57 metres)

Boeing 767-200 ER

Height: 56 feet (17 metres)

Seat Capacity: (ET-AIF) Cloud Nine, 24;

Flight deck size: Similar to that of a 777

Economy Class, 175. Total: 199.

Cruise Speed: Mach 0.85

Max. Gross Weight: 150,386 kgs.

Cargo Capacity After Passenger Bags: 5 pallets + 5 LD3s

Operating Weight: 81,959 kgs.

Maximum Takeoff Weight: 476,000 lbs

Bulk Cargo Volume: 81.4 Cum.

Program milestones: Authority to offer Late 2003

Fuel Capacity: 76,843 Lt.

Assembly start 2006, First flight 2007

Engines: PWJT9D-7R4E.

Certification/Entry into service 2008

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...Africa’s World Class Airline

Boeing 757-260

Boeing 737-700

Seat Capacity: (ET-AJX, ET-AKF, ET-AKE, ET-AKC)

Seat Capacity: (ET-ALK, ET-ALQ, ET-ALU, ET-ALM

Cloud Nine, 16; Economy Class, 144. Total: 160.

& ET-ALN) Cloud Nine, 16; Economy Class 102.

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 108,846 kgs;

Total: 118.

Landing, 89,811 kgs; Zero Fuel, 83,460 kgs.

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 70,080 kgs;

Operating Weight: (ET-AJX) 60,803 kgs.

Landing, 58,604 kgs; Zero Fuel, 55,202 kgs.

Bulk Cargo Volume: 1,670 Cu.ft.

Operating Weight: 40,098 kgs.

Fuel Capacity: 42,684 kgs.

Bulk Cargo Volume: 966 Cu.ft.

Engines: PW2040.

Fuel Capacity: 22,162 kgs.

Sea Level Thrust — LB: 40900.

Engines: CFM 56-7B26.

Sea Level Thrust — LB: 26,300.

Seat Capacity: (ET-ALY) Cloud Nine, 16; Economy Class, 165 Total 181.

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 115,699 kgs; Landing, 89,837 kgs; Zero Fuel, 83,485 kgs.

Operating Weight: 57,657 kgs.

Fuel Capacity: 34,278 kgs.

Engines: PW2037.

Boeing 737-260

DHC-6

Seat Capacity: (ET-AJB) Cloud Nine, 16;

Seat Capacity: (ET-AIN, ET-AIT, ET-AIX)

Seat Capacity: (ET-ALZ) Cloud Nine, 16;

Economy Class, 95. Total: 111.

Economy Class, 17. Total: 17.

Economy Class, 166 Total 182.

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 53,085 kgs;

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 5,669 kgs;

Max. Gross Weight: Take off, 115,699 kgs,

Landing, 47,627 kgs; Zero Fuel, 43,103 kgs.

Landing, 5,578 kgs.

Landing, 89,837 kgs; Zero Fuel, 83,485 kgs.

Operating Weight: 29,729 kgs.

Operating Weight: 3,614 kgs.

Fuel Capacity: 36,324 kgs.

Bulk Cargo Volume: 875 Cu.ft.

Bulk Cargo Volume: 510 Cu.ft. (14.44M3).

Engines: PW2037.

Fuel Capacity: 15,270 kgs.

Fuel Capacity: 1,171 kgs.

Engines: JT8D-17R.

Engines: PT6A-27.

Sea Level Thrust — LB: 16,000.

Sea Level Thrust: — SHP: 680.

Boeing 757-260 Freighter

Fokker 50

Cargo Capacity: (ET-AJS) 15 (88” x 125“) pallets.

Seat Capacity: (ET-AKR, ET-AKS, ET-AKT, ET-AKU,

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 115,892 kgs;

ET-AKV) Economy Class, 52. Total: 52.

Landing, 95,254 kgs; Zero Fuel, 90,718 kgs.

Max. Gross Weight: Take Off, 20,820 kgs;

Operating Weight: 53,010 kgs.

Landing, 19,730 kgs; Zero Fuel, 18,600 kgs.

Cargo Volume Main: 6,600 Cu.ft.

Operating Weight: 12,970 kgs.

Lower: 1,829 Cu.ft.

Bulk Cargo Volume: (7.01M3).

Total: 8,429 Cu.ft.

Fuel Capacity: 9,104 kgs.

Fuel Capacity: 34,348 kgs.

Engines: P/W 127B — Turbo prop. engine.

Engines: PW2040.

Sea Level Thrust: — SHP: 2,750.

Sea Level Thrust: 40000 lbs.

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INTERNATIONAL ROUTE MAP Ethiopian Destinations Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)

Hong Kong (China)

Accra (Ghana)

Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)

Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)

Johannesburg (S. Africa)

Amsterdam (Netherlands)

Juba (Sudan)

Bamako (Mali)

Khartoum (Sudan)

Bangkok (Thailand)

Kigali (Rwanda)

Beijing (China)

Kilimanjaro (Tanzania)

Beirut (Lebanon)

Kinshasa (D. R. of Congo)

Brazzaville (Congo)

Lagos (Nigeria)

Brussels (Belgium)

Libreville (Gabon)

Bujumbura (Burundi)

Lilongwe (Malawi)

Cairo (Egypt)

Lomé (Togo)

Dar es Salaam (Tanzania)

London (United Kingdom)

Dakar (Senegal)

Luanda (Angola)

Delhi (India)

Lusaka (Zambia)

Dire Dawa (Ethiopia)

Mumbai (India)

Djibouti (Rep. of Djibouti)

Nairobi (Kenya)

Douala (Cameroun)

N’Djamena (Chad)

Dubai (UAE)

Paris (France)

Entebbe (Uganda)

Rome (Italy)

Frankfurt (Germany)

Stockholm (Sweden)

Guangzhou (China)

Tel Aviv (Israel)

Harare (Zimbabwe)

Washington D.C. (USA)

Vancouver Seattle

Quebec Ottawa Montréal Toronto Rochester Portland Syrac.

Detriot Boston Omaha Chicago Dayton Cleveland Salt Lake City Denver Indianapolis New York Columb.

Kansas Philadelphia San Francisco City Colorado Springs Cincinnati Washington D.C. St. Louis Klahoma Las Vegas San José Bashville Norfolk City Memphis Ontario Albuquerque Los Angeles Columbia Phoenix Little Rock Santa Ana Dallas Atlanta Tucson San New Jacksonville Diego San Antonio Orleans Orlando Houston Tampa Fort Lauderdale Miami Havana Minneapolis

Portland

North Atlantic Ocean

Hargeisa (Somaliland)

Dakar

Destinations with special agreements Cape Town (South Africa)

Kansas City, Kansas

Dorval, Montréal (Canada)

Las Vegas, Nevada

Gaborone (Botswana)

Little Rock, Arkansas

Helsinki (Finland)

Los Angeles, California

Jarkata (Indonesia)

Memphis, Tennessee

Kolkata (India)

Miami, Florida

Manila (Philippines)

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Oslo (Norway)

Nashville, Tennessee

Ottawa, Ontario (Canada)

New Orleans, Louisiana

Palermo (Italy)

New York (USA)

Stockholm (Sweden)

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Toronto (Canada)

Omaha, Nebraska

Vancouver (Canada)

Ontario, California

Windhoek (Namibia)

Orlando, Florida

U.S.A.:

Philadelphia, Pa.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Phoenix, Arizona

Atlanta, Georgia

Portland, Oregon

Boston, Massachusetts

Portland, Maine

Chicago, Illinois

Rochester, New York

Cincinnati, Ohio

Saint Louis, Missouri

Cleveland, Ohio

Salt Lake City, Utah

Colorado Springs, Colorado

San Antonio, Texas

Columbia, S. Carolina

San Diego, California

Columbus, Ohio

San Francisco, California

Dallas, Texas

San Jose, California

Dayton, Ohio

Santa Ana, California

Denver, Colorado

Seattle, Washington

Detroit, Michigan

Syracuse, New York

Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Tampa, Florida

Houston, Texas

Tucson, Arizona

Indianapolis, Indiana

South Pacific Ocean

South O

INTERNATIONAL ROUTE MAP Ethiopian Destinations Destinations with Special Agreements

0300 (-9)

0400 (-8)

0500 (-7)

0600 (-6)

0700 (-5)

0800 (-4)

0900 (-3)

1000 (-2)

Jacksonville, Florida

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Helsinki

Oslo

Stockholm

Amsterdam London Brussels Paris Geneva

Frankfurt

Milan Beijing

Rome

(Perking)

Palermo

tic

Beirut Tel Aviv Alexandria

Kuwait

Cairo Riyadh

Bahrain

Abu Dhabi

Jeddah

Dakar Bamako Accra Abidjan

N‘Djamena

Asmara

Abuja

Lomé

ADDIS ABABA Juba

Lagos Douala

Malabo

Guangzhou (Canton) Haiphong Hong Kong

Muscat Mumbai (Bombay)

Khartoum

Niamey Kano

New Delhi Dubai Kolkata (Calcutta) Yangon (Rangoon)

Saná

Vientiane Manila

Bangkok

Djibouti Hargeisa

Dire Dawa

Bangui

Yaoundé Entebbe Kigali

Libreville Brazzaville

Bujumbura Dodoma

Kinshasa

Nairobi Kilimanjaro Zanzibar

Lusaka

South Atlantic Ocean

Jakarta

Dar es Salaam

Luanda

Indian Ocean

Lilongwe Harare

Windhoek Gaborone Johannesburg Maseru

Pretoria Maputo Mbabane Durban

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Cape Town

1000 (-2)

1100

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1400 (+2)

1500 (+3)

1600 (+4)

1700 (+5)

1800 (+6)

1900 (+7)

2000 (+8)

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ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES DOMESTIC OFFICES DOMESTIC ROUTE MAP Destinations

Red Sea

Shire

Axum

Teke z

Denakil Depression

e

Ras Dashan (4,620m)

Makale

Simien Mountains

i (Blu

Awash

e Nil

e)

ADDIS ABABA

Begi

Dembidollo Gambella

Baro

Jimma

o

Mendebo Mountains

Mizan Teferi

Arba Minch Jinka

ASSOSA Tel: 251-47-7750574 (CTO) AXUM Tel: 251-34-7752300 (CTO) 251-34-7753544 (APT) 251-34-7753633 (CAA) BACO (Jinka) Tel: 251-46-7750126 (C TO & APT)

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Mo

Jijiga

Zwai Abiata Langano Shala

Tipi

ARBA MINCH Tel: 251-46-8810649 (CTO)

Ah

r ma

Dire Dawa

Koka Gore

Akob

ADDIS ABABA Main City Ticket Office Churchill Road PO Box 1755 Tel: 251-11-5517000 Fax: 251-11-6611474

Akaki

ns

i nta

Abaya

Ogaden Region

Sheb

elle

Shamo

BAHAR DAR Tel: 251-58-2200020 (CTO) 251-58-2206900 (CTO) 251-58-2200948 (APT) DEMBIDOLLO Tel: 251-47-5550033 (CTO) DESSIE Tel: 251-33-1112571 (CTO) DIRE DAWA Tel: 251-25-1111147 251-25-1112546 251-25-1113317 251-25-1111766 (CTO) 251-25-1112542 (CGO) PO Box 176 GAMBELLA Tel: 251-47-5510099

Kabri Dar Gode Shilavo

GODE Tel: 251-25-7760015 (CTO) 251-25-7760030 (APT)

LALIBELLA Tel: 251-33-3360046 (CTO) 251-91-1190045 (CAA)

GONDAR Tel: 251-58-1110129 (CTO) 251-58-1117688 (CTO) 251-58-1117602 (CTO) 251-58-1140735 (APT) PO Box 120

MEKELLE Tel: 251-34-4400055 (CTO) 251-34-4404052 (CTO) 251-34-4420437 (APT) 251-91-4700910 (Cell) PO Box 230

GORE Tel: 251-47-5540048

SHIRE Tel: 251-34-4442224

JIJIGA Tel: 251-25-7752030 (CTO) 251-25-7754300 (APT)

TEPPI Tel: 251-57-5560330

JIMMA Tel: 251-47-1117271 (CTO) 251-47-1110030 (CTO) 251-47-1110207 (APT)

CTO – City Ticket Office APT – Airport Office CAA – Civil Aviation Authority CGO – Cargo Office

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Dessie

Choke Mountains Abba

Gu

au

Bahar Dar

Asosa

den A f lf o

Lalibela

late

Tana

aP har Am

Gondar

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ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES OFFICES ANGOLA Largo 4 De Fevereiro Hotel Meridien Presidente Luanda, Angola Tel: (2442) 310328/310615 Fax: (2442) 310328 BURUNDI Avenue De La Victorie No. 09 P.O. Box 517, Bujumbura Tel: 257-226820/226038 Fax: 257-248089 Apt: 257-229842 Mobile: 257-841844 E-mail: bjmam@ethiopianairlines.com CHAD Avenue Charles De Gaule P.O. Box 989, N’djamena Tel: 235-523143/523027 Fax: 235-523143 Apt: 235-522599 CHINA L203 China World Tower 2, China World Trade Centre No.1 Jianguomenwai Ave. Beijing (100004) Tel: 8610 65050314/15 Fax: 8610 65054120 Apt Tel: 8610 64591156 Apt Fax: 8610 64599445 E-mail: bjsam@ethiopianairlines.com Guangzhou World Trade Centre Complex 13th Floor, Room No. 1303-1305 Huan Shi Dong Road, China Tel: 8620 87620836/87620120/87621101 Fax: 8620 87621101 E-mail: cansm@ethiopianairlines.com CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC 9 Avenue Du Port P.O. Box 7585, Kinshasa Gombe Tel: 00243-0817006585/810884000 Mobile: 00243-0817006588 Apt (Mobile): 00243-0817006589 E-mail: fiham@ethiopianairlines.com CONGO, REPUBLIC OF Avenue Foch, Brazzaville P.O. Box 14125 Tel: 242-810761/810766 Mobile: 241- 528-1059 E-mail: bzvam@ethiopianairlines.com CAMEROUN 30 Avenue General Charles De Gaulle B.P 1326 Douala, Cameroun Tel: 237-3430246/64 Fax: 237-3430167 Mobile: 237-7937929 E-mail: dlaam@ethiopianairlines.com COTE D’IVOIRE Avenue Chardy Immeuble Le Paris P.O. Box 01 BP 5897 ABJ 01, Abidjan Tel: 225-20219332/20215538/20215884/ 20219179 Fax: 225-20219025 Mobile: 225-05061583 Apt: 225-2021278819 Mobile/Apt: 00225-05063294 E-mail: abjet@ethiopianairlines.com DJIBOUTI Rue De Marseilles P.O. Box 90, Djibouti Tel: 253-351007/354235 Fax: 253-350599 Apt: 253-341216 E-mail: jibam@ethiopianairlines.com EGYPT Nile Hilton Hotel P.O. Box 807, Ataba, Cairo Tel: 202-5740603/5740911/5740852 Fax: 202-5740189 Apt: 202-2654398 CGO: 2654346 E-mail: caiam@ethiopianairlines.com ETHIOPIA Main City Ticket Office Churchill Road P.O. Box 1755, Addis Ababa Tel: 251 11 5517000 251 11 6656666 (Reservation) 251 11 5178320 (Apt) Fax: 251 11 6611474 Yekatit 66 Avenue P.O. Box 176, Dire Dawa Tel: 251 25 1113069 251 25 1112546

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FRANCE 25 Rue De Ponthieu 75008 Paris Tel: 33-153760538 Fax: 33-153760537 Apt: 33-148626632 Apt Mobile: 0607616375 E-mail: ethiopian-airlines.paris@wanadoo.fr

MALI Square Patrice Lumumba P.O. Box 1841, Bamako Tel: 00 223-2222088 Fax: 00 223-2226036 Apt Mobile: 00 223-6795819 E-mail: bkoam@ethiopianairlines.com

GERMANY Am Hauptbahnhof 6 60329 Frankfurt Am Main Tel: +49-(0)692740070 Fax: +49-(0)27400730 Apt: +49-(0)6969051921 +49-(0)6969032391 Fax:+49-(0)69691945 E-mail: ethiopian.fra@t-online.de

NETHERLANDS De Boelelaan 7 1083 HJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tel: 31 (20) 6429190 Fax: 31 (20) 6429553 Apt Tel: 20 3163302 E-mail: etiopian.airlines@worldonline.nl

GHANA Kwame Nkrumah Avenue, Cocoa House, Ground Floor Tel: 233-21664856/57/58 Fax: 233-21673968 Apt: 233-21775168/778993/776171 E-mail: accam@ethiopianairlines.com HONG KONG Rm 1803 Ruttonjee House 11 Duddell Street, Central Hong Kong Tel: 852-21170233 Fax: 852-21171811 Apt: 852-31508123 Apt Fax: 852-31508125 E-mail: hkgam@ethiopianairlines.com INDIA 30-B World Trade Centre, Cuffe, Cuffe Parade, Mumbai 400005 Tel: 91-2222166066/67/68 Fax: 91-2222153725 Apt: 91-26828626/27 E-mail: ethiopian@vsnl.com Alps Building, 1st Floor 56, Janpath, New Delhi 110 001 Tel: 011 23312302/303 Fax: 011 23329235 Apt: 011 25653739/40 E-mail: delsm@ethiopianairlines.com ISRAEL 1 Ben Yehuda Street Room 2016, Tel Aviv Tel: 972-35100501/5100498/5100367/ 5160564 Fax: 972-3-5160574 CGO: 972-3975-4096 Apt Fax: 972-3975-4097 E-mail: tlvam@ethiopianairlines.com ITALY Piazza Barberini 52 00187 Rome, Italy Tel: +3906-42011199 Fax: +3906-4819377 Apt: +3906-65954126 CGO: +3906-65954113 E-mail: ethiopian-rom@mclink.It Via Albricci 9 - 20122 Milan Tel: 3902 8056562 Fax: 3902 72010638 E-mail: ethiopian-mil@mclink.it JAPAN Daido Seimei Bldg. 2F 2-7-4 Nihonbashi, Chuo-Ku, Tokyo, Japan 103-0027 Tel: 81-3-3281-1990 Fax: 81-3-3281-1889 E-mail: ethiopian@msb.biglobe.ne.jp KENYA Bruce House Muindi Mbingu Street P.O. Box 42901-00100, Nairobi Tel: 254-20 247508 Fax: 254-20 219007 Apt: 254-20 822285/311 Mobile: 254-722518532 E-mail: nboet@nbi.ispkenya.com etsales@nbi.ispkenya.com LEBANON Clemenceau St. Gefinor Center, Block (B) Beirut, Lebanon Tel/Fax: 961-1752846/7 Apt: 961-1629814 E-mail: beyam@ethiopianairlines.com MALAWI Taveta House P.O. Box 30427 Capital City, Lilongwe 3, Malawi Tel: 265-01-771308/771002/772013 Fax: 265-01-772013 Apt: 265-01-700782 E-mail: llwam@ethiopianairlines.com

NIGERIA 3, Idowu Taylor Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria P.O. Box 1602 Tel: 2341-7744711/2 Fax: 2341-4616297 Apt: 2341-7744710/7751921/3 E-mail: losam@ethiopianairlines.com RWANDA Centenary House, Ground Floor P.O. Box 385, Kigali Tel: 250-575045/570440/42 Fax: 250-570441 Apt: 250-514296 E-mail: kgletam@rwanda1.com SAUDI ARABIA Medina Road, Adham Center P.O. Box 8913, Jeddah 21492 Tel: 9662-6512365/6512996/6519609 Fax: 9662-6516670 Apt: 9662-6853064/6853196/6853527 CGO Tel/Fax: 9662 6851041 E-mail: jedet@arab.net.sa Jeddah Airport Tel: 9662-6853064/6853196/6853527 Apt Mobile: 009662-54301354 E-mail: jedet@arab.net.sa Riyadh Airport Al Zouman Centre, Old Airport Road PO Box 7543, Riyadh 11472 Tel: 966-1-4782140/4789763/4793155 Fax: 966-1-4793155 SOMALILAND Mansoor Hotel, Hargeisa Tel: 252-2-52844/2138607 Mobile: 252-2-427575 E-mail: hgaam@hgastc.com hgacto@online.no SOUTH AFRICA 1st Floor, Eastgate Office Towers Suite 217, Postnet X4 Bedfordview, 2008 Johannesburg, South Africa Tel: (2711) 616-7624/25/26/28 Fax: (2711) 616-2907 Apt: (2711) 394-3438/921-6409 E-mail: jnbam@ethiopianairlines.com E-mail CGO: stonkin@acr.co.za SWEDEN Kungsgatan 37 SE-11156 Stockholm Tel: 46 84402900 Fax: 46 8206622 Apt: 46 859360170 E-mail: res.ethiopian@telia.com SUDAN Gamhoria Street El-Nazir Building No. 3/2G P.O. Box 944 Tel: 249-83-762062/063/088 Fax: 249-83-788428 Apt: 249-83-790991 SWITZERLAND 9 Rue Du Mont Blanc, CH 1201 Geneva Tel: 00 41 22 716 17 50 Fax: 00 41 22 716 17 59 E-mail: geneva@ethiopian-airlines.ch TANZANIA T.D.F.L Building Ohio Street P.O. Box 3187, Dar-Es-Salaam Tel: 255-22 2117063/4/5/2125443 Fax: 255-22 2115875 Apt: 255-22 2844243/2844211-9 Ext. 2004 E-mail: daram@ethiopianairlines.com

THAILAND 140 One Pacific Bldg, Unit 1807 18th Floor, Sukhumvit Road Klongtoey, Bangkok 10110 Tel: 662-6534366/7/ Fax: 662-6534370 Apt: 662-5353298 Fax: 662-5356573 CGO: 662-2379207 Fax: 662-2379200 E-mail: bkkam@ethiopianairlines.com TOGO Hotel Palm Beach, 1 Rue Komore P.O. Box 12923 Tel: 228 2217074/2218738 Fax: 228 2221832 Apt: 228 2263029/228 2261240 Ext. 4313/4517 E-mail: lfwam@ethiopianairlines.com UGANDA 1 Kimathi Avenue P.O. Box 3591, Kampala Tel: 256 41 254796/97/345577/78 Fax: 256 41 321130/231455 Apt: 256 41 320570/321130/320555/320516 Ext. 3052/98 E-mail: klaetam@africaonline.co.ug UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Flat 202, Pearl Bldg.

Beniyas Street P.O. Box 7140, Dubai Tel: 971 42237963/87/2284338 Fax: 971 42273306 Apt: 971 42162833 CGO: 971 42822880/2163813/2829477 E-mail: etdxbcto@emirates.net.ae UNITED KINGDOM 1 Dukes Gate, Acton Lane London W4 5DX Tel: 020 8987 7000/9086 Fax: 020 8747 9339 Apt Tel: 020 8745 4234/5 Apt Fax: 020 8745 7936 CGO Tel: 020 9754 9080 CGO Fax: 020 8754 9081 E-mail: lonam@ethiopianairlines.com UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Atlanta, Tel: 800-4452733 Boston, Tel: 800-4452733 Miami, Tel: 800-4452733 Dallas, Tel: 800-4452733 Denver, Tel: 800-4452733 Houston, Tel: 800-4452733 Los Angeles, Tel: 800-4452733 Chicago, Tel: 800-4452733 San Francisco, Tel: 800-4452733 Seattle, Tel: 800-4452733 New York 336 East 45th Street 3rd Floor, New York, NY10017 Tel: (01) 212 8670095 Fax: (01) 212 6929589 Tel: 800-4452733 (Toll Free) Apt (973) 961 8448/961 2280 E-mail: ealnyc@flyethiopian.com Washington DC Dulles International Airport P.O. Box 16855 Washington, DC 20041 Tel: (01) 703-5726809/703-5728740 Fax: (01) 703-5728738 ZAMBIA Indo Zambia Bank Building Off Cairo Road, Plot No. 6907 P.O. Box 38392 Tel: 260 1 236402/3 Fax: 260 1 236401 Apt: 260 1 271141 Or 260 1 271313 Ext 473 E-mail: lunam@ethiopianairlines.com ZIMBABWE Cabs Center, 4th Floor CNR Jason Moyo Avenue 2nd St. P.O. Box 1332, Harare Tel: 263 4790705/6/700735 Fax: 263 4795216 Apt: 263 4575191 E-mail: ethre@icon.co.za hream@ethiopianairlines.com

Boma Road P.O. Box 93 Arusha, Tanzania Tel: 255-27 2504231/2506167 CGO: 255-27 25075112 Apt: 2554252 Ext. 221 E-mail: arksm@ethiopianairlines.com

3/11/06 9:13:02 AM

ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES GENERAL SALES AGENTS ABU DHABI Salem Travel Agency Tel: (009712) 6215600/6218000 Fax: (009712) 6211155

Pune Leonard Travels Pvt. Ltd. Tel: (9520) 26131647/26137690 Fax: (9520) 26130782

ALGERIA Air Algeria Tel: 213-643731

Chennai Shireen Travels (P) Ltd. Tel: (044) 28150284/28151395/28152591 Fax: (044) 28152591

ANGOLA TAAG (Angola Airlines) AUSTRIA Aviareps Airline Management Services GMBH Tel: 431-5853630 Fax: 431-585363088 BAHRAIN Bahrain Int’l Travel Tel: 973-17223315/210175 Fax: 973-17210175

Bangalore STIC Travels Pvt. Ltd. Tel: (080) 22267613/22202408/22256194 Fax: (080) 22202409 Nepal Gurans Travel & Tours (P) Ltd. Tel: (9771) 5524232 Fax: (9771) 5526926 Sri Lanka & Maldives (Colombo) VMS Air Services Pvt. Ltd. Tel: (941) 347624/5 Fax: (941) 348165

BANGLADESH (Dhaka) MAAS Travels & Tours Ltd. (42-3-80391) Tel: 8802-9559852/9568388/9565380 Fax: 8802-9565378

Trivandrum/Cochin STIC Travels Pvt. Ltd. Tel: (0471) 2310919/2311548/54/2312582 Fax: (033) 2310919

BELGIUM Air Support Belgium N.V. (Cargo Only) Tel: 32(0)2-33601681 Fax: 32(0)2-33264325

INDONESIA (Jakarta) PT Ayuberga Tel: 62-21-835 6214-18 Fax: 62-21-835 3937

BELGIUM & LUXEMBOURG AVIAREPS (Passengers Only) Tel: 31-20-520 0281 Fax: 31-20-623 0151

IRAN Iran National Airlines Corp.

Tel: (009821)-6002010 Fax: (009821)-6012941

BENIN Vitesse Voyage (Speed Travel) Tel: 229-310718

ITALY Rome ATC (Cargo only) Tel: 06-65010715/65957021 Fax: 06-65010242

CYPRUS Alomar Travel Co. (for all cities listed) Limassol Tel: 05-361680 Fax: 05-344070 Larnaca Airport Tel: 04-643247 Fax: 04-643165 DENMARK Khyber International Tel: 45-33934455 Fax: 45-33933799 FINLAND GSA Scandinavia (Cargo Only) Tel: 358-9-818800 Fax: 45-325-054090 FINLAND AND ESTONIA Matkantekijat Oy/Tourplanners Ltd (Passengers Only) Annankatu 16 B, 3rd floor FI-00120 Helsinki Tel: 358-9-687 78 940 Fax: 358-9-687 78 910 FRANCE Globe Air Cargo System (CDG) Tel: 01-48629703, Fax: 01-48625335 GERMANY (Frankfurt) ATC Aviation Services (Cargo Only) Tel: 069-698053-47 Fax: 069-698053-20 GREECE Gold Star Ltd. 33, Nikis Street, 105 57, Athens Tel: 0030 210 3246706 Fax: 0030 210 3246723 HONG KONG Desk Air Ltd. (Cargo Only) Tel: (852) 28611811 Fax: (852) 28656793 INDIA Ahmedabad Sheba Travel Pvt. Ltd. Tel: (079) 27544056 Fax: (079) 27542317

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Milan ATC (Cargo only) Tel: 02506791 Fax: 0255400116 JORDAN Al Karmel Travel & Tourism Tr. Co Tel: 962-65688301 Fax: 962-65688302 KUWAIT Al-Sawan Co. W.L.L. Tel: 965-2433141 Fax: 965-2453130/2462358 LIBERIA Trade Management International (Passengers Only) Tel: 2316-524452 MALAWI Sky Direct Ltd. Tel: 01-633048/634676 Fax: 636518 MALAYSIA (Kuala Lumpur) Plancongan Abadi SDN BHD Tel: 03-2426360 Fax: 03-2412322 MALTA Messers Bajada Enterprises Ltd. Tel: 00356-21237979 Fax: 00356-237939 MAURITANIA Agenie Megrebine de Voyages (Passengers Only) Tel: (222) 254852/250584 Fax: (222) 252455

NETHERLANDS Air Agencies Holland (Passengers Only) Tel: +31 (10) 2083671 Fax: +31 (10) 2083699 Air Support (Cargo Only) Tel: 0032 (20) 3164221/4053990 Fax: 0032 (20) 3164243

SOUTH AFRICA Holiday Aviation (Passengers Only) Tel: 2711-2898000 Fax: 2711-7871526 Airline Cargo Resources (Cargo only) Tel: 2711-9794944 Fax: 2711-9794949

NORTH KOREA Cacdprk-Chosen Minhang Korean Airlines

SPAIN (Madrid) Air Travel Management (Passengers Only) Tel: 0034-91-4022718 Fax: 0034-91-3092203 Madrid (Cargo Only) Tel: 0034-934904145 Fax: 0034-9349039

NORWAY Khyber International (Passengers Only) Tel: 47-22837460 Fax: 47-22837464 OMAN (Muscat) National Travel & Tourism Wattayha, Box 962 Muscat Tel: (968) 566046 Fax: (968) 566125 PAKISTAN (Islamabad) Tradewinds Associates Pvt. Ltd., Islamabad Tel: 051-2823040/2823350 Fax: 2824030 Lahore Tel: 042-6305229/6365165 Fax: 042-6314051 PORTUGAL (Lisbon) Air Travel Management (Passengers Only) Tel: 351-2 17826580 Fax: 351-2 17826589 PHILIPPINES Travel Wide Associated Sales, Inc. (Passengers & Cargo) Tel: 632 897 0070 Fax: 632 890 6631 QATAR (Doha) Fahd Travels Tel: 974 44 32233 Fax: 974 4432266 SAUDI ARABIA Al Zouman Aviation (for all cities listed) Jeddah Tel: 02-6531222, Fax: 02-6534258 Damman Tel: 03-8328572, Fax: 03-8349383 Hofuf Tel: 03-5924637, Fax: 03-5929917 Makkah Tel: 02-5375081, Fax: 02-5373484 Tabuk Tel: 04-422142/4221064 Fax: 04-4221816 Yanbu Tel: 04-3227325/3213819, Fax: 04-3213926 Khamis Mushayat Tel: 07-2231568, Fax: 07-2211202 Alkhober Tel: 03-8642084/8642432, Fax: 03-8991539 Alqatif Tel: 03-8520513, Fax: 03-8520022 SEYCHELLES Mason’s Travel Pty. Ltd. Tel: 248-324173 Fax: 248-288888 SIERRA LEONE IPC Travel (Passengers Only) Tel: 221481/2/3 Fax: 227470

MOROCCO (Casablanca) Skyline International Tel: 00212-2368322/23 Fax: 212-2369775

SINGAPORE Jetspeed Trvls Pvt. Ltd. (32-3 8087 6) Tel: 65-3378868/3377598/3372953 Fax: 65-3388827

MOZAMBIQUE Globo Tour’s LDA (Passengers and Cargo) Tel: 258-308067/9 Fax: 258-303596

SOUTH KOREA (Seoul) Woree Express Services Ltd. Tel: 822-3190059 Fax: 822-7747765

SWEDEN (Stockholm) Khyber International (Passengers Only) Tel: (46-8) 4111826 Fax: (46-8) 4111826 GSA Scandinavia (Cargo Only) Tel: (46-8) 7979840 Fax: (46-8) 7979842 SWITZERLAND Airnautic (Cargo Only) Tel: 022/7983040/7995999 SYRIA Al Tarek Travel & Tourism (Passengers & Cargo) Tel: 22-11941/2216265 Fax: 963 1122 35225 TAIWAN Apex Travel Services Ltd. (Passengers Only) Tel: (886) 2 2713 1900 Fax: (886) 2 2718 1057 Global Aviation Services (Taiwan) Inc. (Cargo Only) Tel: (886) 2 8712 2113 Fax: (886) 2 8712 3151 THAILAND (Bangkok) Oriole Travels & Tours Co. Ltd. (Cargo Only) Tel: 662-2379201-9 Fax: 662-2379200 TUNIS Tunis Air Tel: 2611-785100/288100 TURKEY Panorama Tel: (212) 2300990/2309601 Fax: (212) 2309171 UNITED ARAB EMIRATES Abu Dhabi Sales Travel Agency Tel: (009712) 6218000/6215600 Dubai Asian Travel & Tour Agency Tel: 971-4-2951511 Fax: 971-4-2955315 UNITED KINGDOM AND IRELAND Air Logistics Limited (Cargo Only) Tel: 01332-850021 Fax: 01332-811961 USA Airline Marketing Services (Cargo Only) Tel: (212) 5902390 Fax: (212) 5902391 YEMEN, THE REPUBLIC OF Marib Travel & Tourist Agency Tel: 969-271803/272435/2724436 Fax: 9671-274199 YUGOSLAVIA Jugoslovenski Aerotransport (JAT) Tel: 011-683164

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Ethiopian Cargo The history of Ethiopian Cargo dates back to February 1946 when the first charter operation was launched from Addis Ababa to Nairobi using a DC-3/ C-47 aircraft.

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thiopian’s route expansion and fleet modernization, which was primarily focused on passenger carriage, also created an opportunity for the provision of cargo capacity. This was increased following the acquisition of the Boeing 720 jet aircraft in 1962.

Later in 1974, Ethiopian introduced a dedicated freighter aircraft by converting a passenger Boeing 707 for cargo carriage and introduced an all cargo service to Europe. Ethiopian was able to gradually increase its cargo business in the 1970s and 80s using the Boeing 707 and the belly hold capacity of its passenger aircraft. The introduction of the Boeing 767-200ER in 1984 further provided increased hold capacity. Due to the steadily growing export volume of fruit, vegetables and cut flowers from Ethiopia and increased import and transit shipment from Europe to Addis Ababa and beyond, a significant increase in cargo traffic was registered.

As the cargo marketing activities intensified, it became clear that the airline needed modern freighter aircraft to increase capacity and access the more noise-sensitive European gateways. This led to the purchase of Boeing 757-200PF freighter aircraft in August 1990. The flow of merchandise from Europe, Middle East and India contributed to the growth of incoming cargo while export of horticultural products and live animals played a significant role in the swift development of outgoing cargo traffic. During this period, the revenue contribution of cargo sales reached a remarkable 32% which necessitated the restructuring and upgrading of the cargo business unit to a division reporting directly to Executive Officer of Marketing.

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Currently, Ethiopian operates an all-cargo service to Brussels, Rome, Dubai, Jeddah, Mumbai, Nairobi, Johannesburg, Entebbe and Djibouti using Boeing 757-200PF and aircraft obtained on an operating lease basis, while other destinations are served using the belly hold of wide and narrow bodied passenger aircraft.

Applying the latest information technology, Ethiopian automated its major cargo origin and destination stations throughout its network. In late 2004, Ethiopian introduced a cargo tracking system which enables clients to access information on the status of their shipment by logging on Ethiopian’s website.

As part of the airline’s plans to consolidate Addis Ababa as a regional cargo hub and to cater for an ever-increasing air cargo demand within Africa and beyond, Ethiopian commissioned the construction of a new ultra-modern cargo terminal in November 2003 at a cost of ETB133 million. The terminal complex, which is expected to be operational by the end of 2005, will have a capacity to handle 104,000 tons annually.

The warehouse and cold room will be equipped with the latest cargo handling and storage facilities to ensure safe storage of shipments and quick movement of cargo.

The investment opportunity in Ethiopia, which is expected to increase the export and import volume, will provide a great opportunity for the growth of Ethiopian Cargo. The ever-increasing local and foreign investment undertakings in the horticultural and flower production sector have already provided a good opportunity for growth. In addition, the strategic location of Addis Ababa between the major continents, together with Ethiopian’s extensive network in Africa, will ensure that Addis Ababa becomes the preferred regional cargo hub.

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MYSTERY CAVES The Sof Omar cave system.

Formed by the Web river as it carved a channel through the limestone foothills, the Sof Omar system is an extraordinary natural phenomenon of breathtaking beauty.

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ETHIOPIA ...the magic land

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ew countries in the world possess such a wealth and variety of ancient legends and fascinating attractions as Ethiopia. It is a country split by an act of nature – the cleavage known as the Great Rift Valley. At the northern end of the Ethiopian Rift lies Afar in what is known as the Danakil Depression, a barren, scorched landscape which millions of years ago was ‘home’ to mankind’s ancestors. In 1974, the 3.8 million year old remains of the ancestral Australopithecus Afarensis were found in the Hadar area of Ethiopia, and nicknamed ‘Lucy’.

This is only one of the many major scientific discoveries in the area: only 20 years later, in 1994, scientists dug up the fossilised remains of a chimpanzee-sized ape from 4.4 milion years ago at a site 75 kilometres (45 miles) south of where ‘Lucy’ was found.

The discovery chalked yet another first for the country which gave the world coffee, pioneered growing teff, and the ‘false banana’ enset. It was also the first place in Africa to make Christianity a state religion.

Religion has always been a major influence in Ethiopia.

Certainly no country in sub-Saharan Africa can trace its origins as far back.

Ethiopia is mentioned 33 times in the Bible and many times in the Qur’an.

Perhaps this is the reason why so many visitors retrace the ‘historic route’, drawn by colourful stories and fantastic tales to the land once known as Abyssinia.

Throughout the ages, the rocky ramparts surrounding its 2,500-metrehigh (8,000ft) central plateau prevented countless invaders from ever penetrating far beyond the lowlands of the Red Sea coast. Thanks to their courage, Ethiopia’s highlanders remained unconquered for centuries, and most of their historic records and buildings were preserved for posterity.

Some twenty-five peaks rise above 4,000 metres (13,200ft), the highest being Ras Dashen 4,543 metres (14,538ft). The major river is the Blue Nile (Abbay), which runs from the largest lake, Tana, for 1,450 kilometres (906 miles) to join the White Nile at Khartoum. Others are Awash, Wabi Shebelle, Tekezze, Genale-Weyb, Omo and Dawa.

Ancient Egyptians, Romans, Greeks and Persians all tried to occupy what has been called ‘the Roof of Africa’. More recently, in the 16th and 17th centuries, Turkish troops, Portuguese adventurers and priests were more successful in gaining tenuous footholds for a time, followed later by British, French and Italian military expeditions.

But Ethiopia’s earliest history is rooted farther north. The ancient town of Axum, which was one of the very first capitals of Semitic culture in northern Ethiopia, was founded about 1000BC and is the first stage in Ethiopia’s famous ‘Historic Route’. The earliest capital was actually at nearby Yeha. The Axumite kingdom was known as ‘the most powerful state between the Roman Empire and Persia’. Much earlier records show that the Egyptians knew the area to lie somewhere south in ‘the Land of Punt’, also known as ‘the Land of the Gods’, and, from around 3000BC they had obtained gold, ivory, fragrant woods and slaves from there. Later, Egyptian ships sailing to India and back called at the Red Sea Port of Adulis, which served as Axum’s main outlet to the sea, just south of modern Massawa.

Axum went into decline between the 7th and 8th centuries AD, when power moved south to another remarkable site – Roha, later named after its inspired ruler, King Lalibela.

The project he supervised 800 years ago – eleven remarkable churches, hand-carved out of the living bedrock some 250 kilometres south east of Axum – remains today for all to see.

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Described as ‘a creation of angels’, Lalibela has been preserved as one of UNESCO’s, ‘World Heritage Sites’.

However, the very advanced architectural technology used suggests these churches were built by more earthly beings.

In the breathtaking Simien Mountains, which lie south of Axum and north-west of Lalibela, most of the country’s endemic animals are found in the Simien Mountains’ National Park’s 179 square kilometres (111 square miles). The Walia Ibex with its fantastic set of horns, the Simien wolf and the Gelada baboon are unique to Ethiopia.

Ras Dashen is on the edge of the park. The jagged peaks, deep ravines – some of which take two days to cross – and contorted rock formations are a stark reminder of the time, millions of years ago, when the African continent was still forming. The Simiens are a graphic example of the effect of these tumultuous forces on the surface of the earth. White hot basaltic lava once covered what is now Ethiopia to a depth of 3,000 metres (9,840ft).

South-west of the Simiens stands the city of Gondar, with its fairy tale castles. Over the centuries the country has had many capitals, from Yeha, Axum and Lalibela, and long periods of encampments. It was some centuries before the present capital, Addis Ababa was founded. At an altitude of 2,500 metres (8,000ft) Addis Ababa is the third highest capital city in the world, after La Paz and Quito in South America. It stands more or less at the centre of this vast sprawling country with its many contrasting landscapes.

Far to the west of the capital are the lowlands of Gambella, the region bordering on the Sudan. No Semitic or Cushitic languages are heard there for it is the land of the Anuak and Nuer, speakers of Nilo-Saharan tongues whose relatives live over the border in the swampland of southern Sudan at places with such names – foreign to other Ethiopians – as Gog, Pibor, Wush wush, Mangdeng and Dingding.

Its main town, Gambella, stands on a minor tributary of the White Nile.

The Baro River, fed from the west-facing slopes of this part of Ethiopia, becomes the Sobat River once it enters the Sudan.

Gambella and the Baro river were once a major Ethiopian outlet to the outside world. While the Sudan was still an Anglo-Egyptian condominium, Ethiopia had made an arrangement to lease space to Britain on the river bank at Gambella to facilitate the two-way traffic.

It included Kaffa’s coffee bound for Europe. Although Gambella is connected to Addis Ababa by a regular air service, the Gambella National Park, between the town and the border, has few visitors despite the fact that it hosts several wildlife species not found elsewhere in Ethiopia.

These include the Nile lechwe (Onotragus megaceros) and the whiteeared kob (Kob leucotis). The banks of the Baro are also rich in birdlife. Like some Nilotic people of neighbouring southern Sudan, the Nuer people of both sexes favour cicatrization, an ‘adornment’ causing bumps in various patterns on their jaws and bodies. They and their Anuak cousins have little contact with such highland peoples as the Oromo, Gimirra or Gurage. The Gimirra have suffered severely over the centuries from slave-raiders, large numbers having been captured and shipped overseas.

Ascending east from Ilubabor to the western wall of the Rift Valley the traveller arrives in ‘coffee country’, the place where the beverage originated. Before coffee ever reached the Americas it went right around the world in an easterly direction – first crossing the Red Sea to Yemen and Arabia, where its name was translated into Arabic qaweh. It was popular throughout the Middle East, where alcohol was taboo, as a mild stimulant,

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COFFEE TIME A typical Ethiopian meal is followed by an elaborate and charming coffee ceremony.

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then through the Far East and eventually across the Pacific Ocean. Today one of the largest markets for Ethiopian arabica is the United States. Those who cannot face a new day without a cup of coffee may be surprised to know that in its birthplace in Ethiopia’s Kaffa region – from which it gets its name – the berries were originally only eaten, never roasted and ground for a drink. Only since the thirteenth century has coffee been made into a hot drink. Even today in the remoter parts of Kaffa people crush the berries or chew them after mixing them with ghee (clarified butter).

Today Ethiopia is a leading exporter of high-quality arabica coffee. Most of the crop still grows wild in Kaffa and parts of the neighbouring Sidamo, where the soil, climate and the 2,000metre (6,600ft) altitude create an ideal environment for its cultivation.

Coffee is Ethiopia’s main source of foreign exchange. Jimma is the main collection centre, before coffee goes for processing and grading.

East of Jimma the bed of the Rift Valley rises to form a chain of lakes.

Since most are fairly close to Addis Ababa, they are popular weekend resorts for the city’s population, who enjoy the facilities for water-skiing, sailing and other water sports in lakes such as Langano which are free of bilharzia, a parasitical and often water-borne disease. The variety of birdlife at these Rift Valley lakes makes them a paradise for bird-watchers, with masses of pelicans, flamingos, fish eagles and cormorants.

The Sidama people and others living in the southern segment of the Ethiopian section of the Rift Valley occupy some of the most delightful areas in the country with greenswards of meadow interspersed with patches of forest. Their carefully crafted beehive-shaped houses of wickerwork or grass show their origins which they share with the Gurage.

These Cushitic peoples have a common diet, enset ‘false bananas’, so called in English as their leaves bear a resemblance to banana leaves, even though they grow more vertically. They yield no edible fruit, but the roots are ground into flour.

In traditional Ethiopian cuisine, meat is a staple food – and very popular.

Beef is eaten cooked, dried or raw in all parts of the country. Mutton dishes supplement the diet at higher altitudes, along with goat meat, while camel is eaten in the desert lowlands. Fish, too is popular among the people living near lakes. Nile perch, tilapia and catfish are all delicious.

The eastern wall of Ethiopia’s southern Rift Valley is formed for some length by the magnificent Bale Mountains where the Bale Mountains National Park, covering 2,400 square kilometre (1,488 square miles), is much larger than Simien National Park. Its all-weather road rises some 4,000 metres (13,200ft). The park is one of the few places in Ethiopia where the rare and shy mountain nyala, an antelope endemic to Ethiopia may be seen. The park also has 33 other species of mammal, including the Simien wolf, which, despite its name, exists in far greater numbers in Bale than in the Simiens.

The park, with its bracing mountain air, is ideal for hiking or climbing and horses are available for long or short rides in the mountains. The one and only road through the park gives motorists some breathtaking views.

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medieval times, a city redolent of the Middle Eastern world. Its history has been almost as violent and bloody as that of the north, but there the centuries have been marked by wars between rival Muslim factions and against the Christian Orthodox Church.

Five massive gates in the walls of the city centre stand testimony to the need for strong defences against past invaders.

It was long the custom for the gate keys to be kept overnight only by the city’s commander.

Just as Axum thrived commercially, with the port of Adulis as its link to the outside world, so did Harar when it used the well-worn trade route to Zeila port on the Gulf of Aden. In the old days it was common to have caravans of up to 5,000 camels carrying cargoes between Harar and coastal ports.

Even today camels still plod the tarred road leading up to Harar from the railway town of Dire Dawa. Although initially it had been planned for the line to pass through Harar in view of its economic importance, the French dropped the idea, arguing that the altitude and mountainous terrain would make it too costly.

The result was that, despite its long history as a major trading centre in the Horn of Africa, Harar’s influence declined and Dire Dawa, 54 kilometres (33 miles) down in the lowlands became the ‘New Harar’.

Foreign visitors are often intrigued by the promise of ‘Thirteen Months of Sunshine’ in most tourist brochures. Ethiopia still follows the thirteenmonth Coptic calendar, instead of the twelve-month Gregorian calendar used in most parts of the world. Twelve months each consist of thirty days.

The other five days of the year make up the thirteenth month. Ethiopia is also seven years and eight months behind that of the Gregorian calendar, so that 2001 was only 1994. Twelve public holidays are observed in Ethiopia, with the New Year starting in September, followed by Meskal (‘the Finding of the True Cross’) in September. The next holiday is Christmas in January, after which comes a very important and colourful religious occasion, Timket (‘Epiphany’) around 19th January.

Visitors have much to savour in the antiquities that bear visual testimony to Ethiopia’s eventful past. And today Ethiopia is one of Africa’s most accessible countries thanks to the wide connections forged by the national carrier, Ethiopian Airlines. Long-established, the airline is acknowledged as one of the finest on the continent and has become one of Ethiopia’s best ambassadors.

Aviation history was made in Ethiopia in August, 1929, when the first visiting aircraft – a small French Potez 25 – made a triumphal landing on a plain outside Addis Ababa.

To mark this exciting event a special postage stamp was printed, bearing the portraits of the ruling Empress Zauditu and Ras Tafari, who was to become Emperor Haile Selassie.

Today, Ethiopian’s domestic route network is one of the swiftest and most pleasant ways to explore this ancient and exciting land.

For with its high rugged mountains, deep and forbidding gorges, green hills, rushing streams and wide flowing rivers, its lakes, forests and deserts, and a multitude of colourful and fascinating cultures, Ethiopia is truly one of the world’s finest tourist destinations.

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SANETTI PLATEAU At 4,000 metres (13,120 ft.) on Bale Mountains, Afro-alpine plants are found. The grey bushes of H. splendidum are most striking, especially when covered with their yellow owers.

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Pictures by Walter Glaser

Destination Brussels

Bird’s-eye view of Brussels.

The famous statue – Mannekin Pis.

New York has the Statue of Liberty, London has Admiral Nelson, and Brussels has its Mannekin Pis - a statue of a naked little boy supposedly turned to stone when a wicked witch found him relieving himself against the wall of her house - by Walter Glaser

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he inhabitants of Brussels have taken Mannekin Pis to their hearts. He is reputed to have around 600 different costumes and is garbed for every possible occasion. The tradition began when Louis XV donated an embroidered suit in 1747.

Mannekin Pis has a sceptre and robe for the Belgian king’s birthday, a leather jacket with sunglasses for the birthday of Elvis, the king of rock, and an outfit for every other occasion.

Brussels marks a point of cultural difference in Europe. It is around here that the saucy continental Latin flavour ceases, and the strict (and sometimes bawdy) Germanic influence begins. Brussels has melded the two cultures, a legacy of armies from both persuasions marching into her territory, staying a decade or more, a century or two, or maybe just 34

a few years. This country has learned to be adaptable, and diplomatic.

Small wonder that when a central administrative base was needed for the European Union, Brussels was the natural choice.

Visitors to Brussels should be aware that there are two languages spoken, French and Flemish - and both are used on signs and street names. Following the French language names will simplify your time here.

The modern city is exemplified in the Avenue Franklin Roosevelt which is flanked by sky-piercing glass office blocks housing banks, insurance companies and multi-national corporations. They thrive here, possibly because Brussels is the seat of the European Community (EC) which is orchestrating the slow change from a Europe of independent states, into a united economic force.

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Whilst tourists see Brussels as an old and gracious city, there is one startling modern landmark, the Atomium. This 102-metre high (310 feet) stainless steel structure is in the shape of an iron crystal molecule. It was built for the great Expo of 1958, and has been retained as a permanent monument. It forms an unusual contrast to the Chinese Pavilion and the Japanese temple-pagoda in the Heysel Exhibition Park in North Brussels.

The Grand-Place is considered the heart of Brussels. The square has seen celebrations, riots, even executions. The boulevards of the city converge here. A stroll around the area ten minutes in any direction will take you to some of the gems of Brussels: the Church of St. Nicolas, the Galeries St. Hubert, the Cathedral of St. Michel, famous for its stained-glass windows, the Church of Notre Dame du Bon Secours, and the Musee du Costume et la Dentelle (costume and lace).

To watch Brussels going about its business any morning, visit the Marolles market in the Place du Jeu de Balle. Hear accordion players, buskers, and traders bark out the sales pitch about their wares. You can try your hand at bargaining – the traders here love to haggle over a price.

From the everyday world of the market, give yourself a treat and, consulting your map, leave Marolles by the Rue de la Rasiere and find your way through a series of interconnecting archways to the Rue de l’Eventail, then to the Place Poelaert.

Here you will stand and literally gape at the sight before you. It is the Palais de Justice. This was once Europe’s largest building.

Neuhaus Chocolate.

It is certainly an over-achievement in decorative architecture.

But it’s more than just ‘show’, as during the week justice still SHOPPING runs its course in the oak-panelled courtrooms, inhabited by black There are three main shopping districts in Brussels. They include the robed judiciary. thoroughfares of the boulevards Adolf Max and Rue Nuve, Place There are several other landmark buildings in Brussels that will get Stephanie and Ave. Louise and the streets around the Grand Sablon. your attention whilst shopping or looking for somewhere pleasant to One other shopping spot, in the Rue d’Arenberg is the Galeries Royal St. eat. The most notable of these are the Hotel de Ville, a Gothic style Hubert. Built in 1847 as Europe’s first shopping mall, this lovely Italian building dating back to the 15th century, the Palais de la Nation built in neo-Renaissance passage offers shops of the highest quality. If you’re the 18th century, and the Bourse. early, you can enjoy a “La vache breakfeast” of freshly squeezed orange Those interested in the arts will want to visit the Palais des Beaux juice with a Viennese pastry, plus a boiled egg, with the local specialty Arts in Rue Namur. Here you will see Breughel’s Fall of Icarus. As a of Ardennes ham. contrast to this classical piece, there is a sculpture by Henry Moore in the subterranean floors of the same building, Draped Woman on Steps.

Chocolates Take yourself back over 200 years by enjoying the Theatre Toone, Belgium is famous for its chocolate which is exported all around the an entertainment venue that has kept the people of Brussels laughing world. You’ll find franchised chocolate shops throughout the city. for generations. The Puppet Theatre Toone has around 20 puppeteers working magic with strings to animate traditional large wooden Maison Antoine Old Brussels Lace Shop puppets. The stories they tell are basic and bawdy as it was back then Brussels is famous for its lacework. You can see a wonderful selection of when being politically correct was an unknown concept. It is great fun.

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The Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée is an unusual museum, devoted to comic books, and can be found at 20 rue des Sables. Belgium Markets had an impressive industry of comic books, the more famous being Next to the Sablon Church there is a bustling market which is open Tintin and Asterix. Here you will find Tintin’s rocket and thousands of all day Saturday and half day Sunday. Wares include classic and contemporary furnishings, silver, porcelain and pewter. original plates of the comics, plus a cinema, video and reference library and a Museum of the Imagination.

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TRAVELLERS TIPS Airports (points of entry) Brussels Airport, Zaventem is 14 kilometres (9 miles) from the city centre.

Passport & Visa Information No visas are required for visitors from EC countries, the USA, Canada or Australia. Citizens of other countries should refer to their home passport office for further details.

Best time to visit April to mid-September is the high season for tourists. Early spring - around February and March can be very damp, but not as crowded.

August is the hottest month.

Electric Current The power load is 220 volts 50 cycles AC. Continental style two-roundprong plugs are required.

Getting Around There is a Metro, and 18 bicycle routes around Brussels, Taxis are available from taxi ranks and phone booking, but cannot be hailed on the street.

What to buy Brussels lace, Belgian glass and crystal, tapestries, chocolate, Speculoos (small spiced biscuits).

EATING As Brussels is an international city, every style of cuisine can be found here. You can still find traditional Brussels fare at some establishments, This tends to owe more to the German and Flemish influence than the French. You won’t go hungry if you head for the Grand-Place.

Self-drive Generally it is better to organise car rentals before leaving home, as it can be more expensive renting on site. Many of the main car rental companies have branches in Brussels.

Tipping A 10% tip is considered adequate

Beer is Belgium’s specialty, and the city is full of places known as estaminets in which you can enjoy the brewers’ art. A La Morte Subite is a typical estaminet and extremely popular. If you would prefer to drink in quieter surroundings, next to the Bourse is an estaminet called Le Cirio.

There are many tearooms around the city. One with a great view is to be found in Rue Royale in the 4 / Old England building. The rooftop restaurant has a splendid view over the city, and you can see as far as the Atomium.

For something really different, try the tearoom on the roof of the Musical Instruments Museum, housed in Old England, an Art Deco department store that narrowly escaped the wrecker’s ball. The tearoom has a panoramic view of Brussels, and the museum is one of the best of its kind in the world.

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Travels in Cyberspace Get a grip on that mouse and prepare to start pounding the keyboard as Brian Johnston goes on a tour of internet travel websites.

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’ve never really understood the expression ‘the world is your oyster’ – I mean, an oyster never travels very far and isn’t even a very interesting creature. On the other hand, ‘the world is your computer’ starts to make a whole lot of sense. Log on to the Internet and you can find out about even the most remote parts of the planet within minutes. Want to know how to get married at the Elvis theme chapel in Las Vegas? Want to know what time the Changing of the Guard is at Buckingham Palace? Like to check out the cost of a ticket to the Louvre Museum in Paris, or a room at the Raffles Hotel in Singapore? You can do all that, and then some, with the click of a few buttons from the comfort of your own home.

Consider the Internet as a hybrid combination of library, tourist information office and travel agency. Take any destination in the world and you can find out about its history, sights, food, costs and transportation, then if you want you can go right ahead and book flights, hotels, a box at the opera, a cinema ticket, or even get a pizza to be delivered to your hotel room after you arrive. Now think how long it would take you to find the same information if you went to a public library or a travel agency. A whole lot longer, that’s for sure – and minus the pizza.

The only problem with the Internet is that, unlike a library, it isn’t selective in what it stores. The collection of information out there is stunningly good and also hopelessly bad, and there’s plenty of it – tens of millions of pages. The good news is that there’s no subject on this planet that someone hasn’t thoughtfully supplied a web page for, and you might find the information you want in a most unexpected place. (Who would have thought one of the most thorough websites on King Ludwig II of Bavaria and his fairytale castles actually comes from Australia?). The bad news is that finding it can sometimes be like looking for a needle in a haystack. An Internet novice can sometimes spend frustrating hours at the computer terminal blundering around in an attempt to get where they want.

The first secret of efficient searching is to keep your mind focused.

It’s very easy in this treasure trove of marvelous information to get distracted and sidetracked. You start looking for wind towers in Dubai and by the time you know it you’re investigating the lifecycle of the marmot in the Swiss Alps – easy to do, but not

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very time efficient. Secondly, when you use a search engine to find websites, be as specific as possible. Hunt for ‘Paris’ and you’ll spend the next two weeks ploughing through more websites than there are Parisians, some of which will be technical papers on the city’s sewer system written in Greek. Search for ‘Paris museums’ and you reduce the number substantially. Search for ‘Centre Pompidou’ and there you have it – a manageable few links for your delectation.

Another important tool for efficient searching is to remember the ‘useful links’ that most websites provide. Basically, this means that someone else has done the hard work for you and uncovered other websites on the same or related topics in which you might be interested. Just about every website has a link page these days, and some websites consist of almost nothing else, often with a short blurb attached to tell you what to expect before you go there. In the travel area, www.excite.com has links detailing every country around the world, from Yemen to Bhutan and Kyrgyzstan. There are also numerous other links to topics such as food and drink, cruises and travel literature. A similar site is www.expedia.msn. com, which additionally has three-day weather forecasts for places all around the world in simple graphics. You can also book flights, hotels, cars, cruises and entire package holidays online.

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Another good travel link site is http://dir.yahoo.com/Recreation/Travel, which can direct you to any of 76,000 web pages, which categories that even include civilian space travel.

For accommodation, www.travelweb.com provides a huge catalogue of hotels, motels, resorts and inns that was originally designed to facilitate reservations by travel agents. Major chains such as ANA, Best Western, Crowne Plaza, Forte, Hilton and Holiday Inn are all signed up.

You can find out which hotels are present in the city of your choice and even discover whether they offer amenities such as tennis courts, babysitting or modem lines. A further 75,000 lodgings worldwide can be found at www.hotelstravel.com. You can also find out about hotels by going directly to the companies’ own websites (usually easily found with a search such as ‘Sheraton’ or ‘Oberoi’) or to a city’s official website, which usually directs you to a section on accommodation.

Want more practical information about your proposed trip? If you’re trying to work out what time it is in Anchorage or Timbuktu,

look no further than www.timeanddate.com, where you can generate clocks that compare the time in your hometown with anywhere else in the world. Go to www.xe.com or www.travlang.com/money and you can convert any currency to any other, and also get exchange rates quoted in real time. At www.embassyworld.com you can find out where embassies and consulates are worldwide. And www.lib.utexas. edu/maps/index.html, run by the University of Texas, has an excellent collection of maps – some 700 just on the USA and plenty more from all around the world, plus detailed city, natural park and historic maps too.

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up-to-date section detailing places of current interest in the news. All the maps can be downloaded and printed out.

www.cdc.gov/travel/ is a very snappily laid out website bringing you all the information you need to know about health while overseas, including immunizations, risks and diseases around the world, and current health warnings. There are special areas for women, families, business and other travellers. There’s also a nifty medicine translator just in case you want to know what aspirin is called in German, Swahili or Hindi. www.tripprep.com is another good health site. For up to the minute travel advisories, including current travel warnings, information about crime and safety and even road conditions, check out the website of your own government’s foreign affairs department. If that doesn’t help, try the US Department of State (www.travel.state.gov) and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs (www.smartraveller. gov.au/zw-cgi/view/Advice/Index), which have the most comprehensive sites in English.

Now that you’re well armed with the practicalities, it’s time to move on to tourist information. Fodor (www.fodors.com/miniguides) has a truly excellent website where you can cobble together your own miniguides to dozens of cities by clicking on the information that most interests you: accommodation, restaurants, sightseeing, sights and 42

activities, shopping and more. After a couple of seconds the computer comes up with a city guide tailored to your needs. There are also some quirky, well-written essays for each destination which make delightful browsing. Frommers is just as good (www.frommers.com/destinations), with very extensive information on all the best sights in major cities and other tourist spots around the world. The website of Rough Guides is superlative (http://travel.roughguides.com), with almost as much information as in their real guidebooks; the only drawback is the amount of clicking you have to do to get from one piece of information to another. Surprisingly, Lonely Planet’s website is unexciting (www. lonelyplanet.com); the folks there seem to think that if they give too much away, no one will actually buy their guidebooks. Still, their website is worth visiting for its good selection of related links to other sites that will actually tell you more about what you want to know.

Just about every country on the planet has a tourism office with an official website, and these are also good places to go for information.

All 1421 of the world’s official national and regional tourism offices – everything from Andorra Tourism to the Icelandic Tourism Board – are listed at www.towd.com. Occasionally information only consists of an address and contact number, but if there’s a website, the link is given, and off you go.

If all this information is too dry, keep an eye out for the holiday snaps and diaries to be found on personal websites. These are usually intended for friends and family but can be amusing reads. One very fine example is www.photo.net/samantha/travels-with-samantha. html, which won a Best of the Web Award back in 1994 and is still as good today. It recounts the travels of Philip Greenspun (Samantha is his Macintosh PowerBook) through North America and is accompanied by outstanding photography. Follow the Alaska Marine Highway, learn about salmon processing, get caught in a flood, spend a week with twenty bears and meet struggling single mothers in the remote Yukon – all at the click of your computer. Travel has never been so enjoyable – or so easy.

Make your reservations now to fly Ethiopian online at www.ethiopianairlines.com

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The Master Chef The Fairview Hotel is proud to announce the arrival of Nairobi’s legendary chef, Eamon Mullen.

Eamon needs no introduction to the Nairobi restaurant scene. He is a classically trained chef who has worked in some of the world’s most famous hotels including the Mandarin in Bangkok, the Ritz in London and the Norfolk in Nairobi.

Eamon and Executive Chef Godfrey Ouda will take the Fairview to new heights of gastronomic delight!

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Ethiopia by bike the last challenge Two French photographers, Catherine and Olivier Bourguet, both in their mid-twenties, completed a 17 months‚ bicycle trip taking in parts of the Middle East, eastern Africa, Turkey and Madagascar – 11,664 kilometres in total. But the highlight of their trip was the seven months that they spent travelling around Ethiopia, which they describe as “a wonderful love story”. These images were taken during that time.

Above left: A spectacular hair-pinned road near Debre Damo monastery.

Above: No Energy! Sekota track, North.

Left: Morning peace in Bahar Dar market, North.

Right: Near the Kenyan border, Borana huts.

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Above: A wonderful meeting! It was for moments like this that the two cyclists left Belgium.

Left: Little (0.80 euro) hotel with free bike washing! MĂŠgab, Tigray, North.

Below: Ethiopian and Belgian ags, something like a peaceful world...

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FACT FILE: Country: Gabon Capital City: Libreville Official Language: French Currency: CFA franc Climate: Equatorial with an annual mean temperature of 28OC and high levels of humidity Time: GMT+1 hr Hotels: Available in Libreville, Port Gentil and other main centres Electricity supply: 220-30V AC, 50 cycles. Round two-pin plugs are standard Getting about: Regular coach and minibus service. A ferry service operates between Libreville and Port-Gentil. Taxis and Car hire available in main towns Health: Yellow fever certificate required Credit cards: Can be used in some hotels Visa: Required by all

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Pamper Yourself!

Spring water containing minerals such as iron and sulphur was much sought-after for its healing properties. Mineralised spring, Arizona.

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Just the place to relax with friends after treatment – Oasis Hotel, Mesquite, Nevada.

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eeling a bit jaded, a little under par, need some pampering or a lift, both physical and mental? Welcome to the human race. You might think that all this soaking in mineralised water, lounging around on warm towels being massaged by experts and soothed with everything from scented oils and seaweed to royal jelly and volcanic mud all started with the Romans. It’s certainly true that the Romans knew a thing or two about a good soak in a warm bath with several dozen of their best friends, followed by a cold plunge and a good pummelling from a well-qualified slave. In fact, judging by the number of Roman baths scattered round Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, they soon turned the whole business into a mass-marketing exercise for expanding their empire.

The word spa probably comes from a place of that name in Belgium which had mineralised springs noted for their curative properties, but it could also be derived from the Latin expression, ‘sanitas per aquam’ or ‘health through water’. But the evidence suggests that such healthenhancing activities date back even to Neolithic times.

One of the earliest known examples of ‘taking the waters’ (in this case, of a particular lake) for healing purposes comes from Austria. Ancient hollowed-out logs of bath-tub size have been found along the edge of the Neydharting Lake, which still has a spa resort nearby today.

It is thought that Neolithic hunters noticed how sick and wounded animals who came to drink and wallow in the muddy peat at the lake’s edge soon recovered, and decided to give it a try it themselves. And so the idea of the spa was born, as a place where the water was particularly good for you, whether you drank it or sat in it. People still come to Neydharting today, and the mud and water, which are now recognised as having antiseptic and healing qualities, are exported to other spas round the world.

In some places, underground geothermal activity provided surface springs and pools that were actually warm. As long as they weren’t too hot for comfort, such springs were often considered sacred and were a very valuable asset. Not only were they handy for doing the laundry, but they were great for soaking away aches and pains, even if sometimes there was a rather strong smell of rotten eggs. The water in such volcanic hot-spots often also contained all kinds of salts, sulphur (which accounted for the smell) and iron which were found to be good for mineral deficiencies, digestive ailments and anaemia. Such places, and there are 300 of them in Bulgaria alone, must have seemed nothing short of gifts from the gods when medical knowledge was in its infancy.

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Left: Many hotel spas have a private pool for post-treatment relaxation.

In chilly Britain, rheumatics and arthritis were always a problem, and the Celtic people of England’s pretty West Country particularly appreciated the thermal springs of the place they dedicated to Sulla, the goddess of health, where the water temperature was just right for a nice warm soak. The invading Romans immediately spotted the potential and built a magnificent complex of baths and treatment rooms for both healing and recreational purposes on the site. Its atmospheric ruins are a great attraction in the town today, appropriately called ‘Bath’.

When the marble Roman bathhouses fell into ruin, the use of ‘holy springs’ for healing still continued, especially in the countryside. But it wasn’t until the 18th century that ‘taking the waters’ in the many ancient spa towns suddenly became fashionable again. As fans of Jane Austin will know, a visit to Bath or Harrowgate (Harrogate), the two best known English spa towns, was part of the social scene and the spa business in Germany and France took off again, largely because people really did seem to feel better after the various kinds of water treatments being offered.

It now seems that these beneficial effects were not simply in the mind, or from getting really clean for a change and relaxing among friends. Kidney research workers in Bristol, not far from the town of Bath, first became interested in the effects of water immersion on the body when the US space programme used it to mimic the effects of weightlessness on astronauts.

The effects of immersion were found to be quite dramatic, especially if the legs were low in the water and the temperature just above body heat. Gentle pressure pushes blood from the limbs into the chest region, and the walls of the heart respond by releasing a hormone which makes the kidneys work harder. Then the kidneys, as part of their recycling process, step up the amounts of sodium, water, calcium and lead to be excreted by the body. Clearly this would have been beneficial to sufferers from fluid retention, excess sodium or lead poisoning, which many people did experience for centuries because of so much salted food, and the use of lead for water pipes and in pewter dishes and mugs.

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must be done properly. Three hours is about right. You need to stand or dangle in the water up to your neck, toes down. It’s the temperature and pressure that are important, not the quality or specific mineral content in this case, but if the mineral content is of the right kind, it will clear up skin complaints as well. A subtle bonus for some people is that it makes the heart work harder without raising blood pressure or having to take drugs.

Many spas began to experiment with a routine for exercising in water called hydrotherapy for muscular aches and pains.

People continued to drink the mineralised water, and eventually canny businessmen took to bottling it for sale. Some brands, such as Evian and Vichy, were named after the spa towns where they are sourced, and have become household names. In some parts of Europe, including France and Germany, various treatments at spas can be obtained under the local health services or are covered by medical insurance.

And then, around twenty years ago, the entire spa concept took a huge leap forward. First it was ‘health farms’ where people could go, basically to lose weight. Jokes about paying good money to drink carrot juice, be steamed like a turnip and then peeled and mashed like a potato went around. Then came the really big idea - luxury and pampering were what people wanted. You were worth it. ‘No pain, no gain’ was banished to the gym, and in came the seaweed wraps, fluffy towels, pedicures, waxing, exfoliation, detoxing and vitamin creams. And people loved it, especially women, who found the whole idea of lounging round in warm towels sipping herbal tea and gossiping to their friends with cucumber slices on their eyelids very enjoyable and totally relaxing.

These days there are not many five-star resort hotels anywhere from Aqaba to Acapulco, from the Maldives to Mumbai, or from Harrogate to Hawaii, that don’t have ‘spa facilities’, often themed for local specialities. Expect ayurvedic massage around the Indian Ocean resorts, based on traditional Indian herbal remedies including coconut and palm oils, or mud wraps followed by an apricot-stone scrub and olive or almond oil rubs by the Dead Sea. Anywhere in the Caribbean, your skin will be rejuvenated with papaya or avocado mousse. In Costa Rica and Brazil, they’ll attack the cellulite by applying a plaster of black coffee grounds to the relevant areas, on the principle that caffeine works to shift that ‘orange peel’ look if you slap it on rather than drink it. Apparently, lots of people swear by this and try it at home, although possibly this one is best left to the professionals because it tends to make a mess of the best bath towels . . .

All this is a far cry from sitting in a hollow log tub in a cold, muddy Austrian lake. There will be gentle mood music, perhaps with the sound of falling water or bird song. Curtains of white muslin will drift in the warm sea breeze or desert air; fresh flowers and baskets of luscious fruit, with not a wicked choccie or cocktail in sight (unless it’s a carrotand-lettuce-juice surprise) will be brought to your poolside lounger after an expert massage. Towels are fluffier, candlelight softer, water more petal-scented, and willing hands more soothing than they have ever been. Are you already feeling more relaxed?

Oh go on, pamper yourself and book in at a spa - you deserve it!

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Uganda Warm, Comforting...

P.O. Box 7041, Ternan Avenue, Kampala, Uganda Tel: (256-41) 420000, Fax: (256-41) 342357 Email: reservation.kampala@sheraton.com Web: www.sheraton.com/kampala

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FACT FILE: Country: Sudan Capital City: Khartoum Official language: Arabic and English Currency: Sudanese Dinar Climate: Tropical in the south, hot and dry in the north Time: GMT + 2 hrs Electricity supply: 240 V AC Health: Yellow fever certificate required Credit cards: Major credit cards are accepted Getting about: National transport, Taxis and Car hire. Small air taxis fly to major towns Visa: Required by all and must be obtained in advance. Evidence of previous visa to Israel will result in a visa refusal

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ot so long ago, a trip to the Zoo in many large cities wouldn’t have been complete without a visit to the Elephant House and a ride on one of these wonderful creatures. At London Zoo great excitement greeted the arrival in 1865 of Jumbo, a huge African bull weighing over six tons, who gave rides and became a national favourite. Possibly his name was Jambo, the Swahili word of greeting, but Jumbo he became, and elephants have lived with it ever since.

Ironically, the public’s increasing awareness of the stress caused to such intelligent and social animals when kept in captivity has persuaded many zoos, including London Zoo, that keeping them is no longer a humane option. The remaining animals are now in controlled breeding programmes in freer surroundings elsewhere.

All this has happened at a time when interest in elephants has increased, largely thanks to excellent television documentaries. Now that it’s not so easy to see live elephants at home, people often prefer to take a long-haul flight to their natural habitats. And so the legend on early explorers’ maps – ‘Here be elephants’ – has regained some of its original truth.

Kate Nivison gives some weighty advice on where to get the best sightings of everyone’s favourite animal.

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‘Going on safari’ is no longer the preserve of wealthy adults. Some African game parks are now actively encouraging families with children of walking age to try a mini-safari to spot their favourite animals. And if elephants don’t top everyone’s list before they’ve actually seen a live one, it usually takes only one good sighting of a family group with babies or a majestic lone tusker to do the trick.

Of course, every ellie-fan knows that African elephants are larger and have bigger ears than their Asian cousins whose females don’t grow tusks. It is also true that the kind of elephant experience you will have on each continent varies greatly. In south-east Asia, elephants have been work animals for many centuries, while almost all attempts to domesticate their African relatives have failed. Ellie-fans often have strong views on the subject. Some don’t mind seeing them trained, working and comparatively tame if it means getting the opportunity to feed, stroke or ride one, help with bath-time, or even being ‘given a lift’ by that versatile trunk – in which case they will head for Sri Lanka, India or Thailand. Others prefer seeing them in the wild, so it has to be an African safari.

When it comes to the chances of seeing African elephants, several factors come into play, not least the drastic drop in their numbers.

At the time when London Zoo’s Jumbo left his homeland, there were literally millions of his kind all over sub-Saharan Africa, excluding only the true equatorial forests and the driest southern parts. Even a century later there were probably over two million of them. But by 1989, numbers had crashed dangerously below the half-million mark, in spite of bans on poaching and ivory sales. East Africa was the worst hit, with only 16,000 elephants left in Kenya from its once mighty herds. Tanzania’s famous Serengeti and Selous National Parks also lost a similar proportion. Tanzania still has more elephants than Kenya, but estimates vary.

With the numbers down, visitors can no longer expect to see the magnificent spectacle of hundreds of elephants congregating socially.

One of Africa’s finest sights – a family group on the move in the Maasai Mara. (Picture by: Kate Nivison)

Clan sizes are smaller, as indeed are the elephants themselves since the average age now is younger, but family groups led by a dignified matriarch and her relatives with their young, of perhaps a dozen individuals, are still to be seen in national parks such as Kenya’s Maasai Mara, Amboseli and Tsavo where the visibility is good because the vegetation is fairly open. The dry season offers the best sightings because the grass is lower and the bush cover sparser. Also, elephants have to congregate at rivers or waterholes to drink, so most camps are within reach of such places.

Wardens realise that visitors would be disappointed if they didn’t see elephants during their stay, and will try to make sure that they do. Sometimes the process is helped by ‘collaring’. In the Samburu in northern Kenya, Anastasia, the matriarch of the ‘Royal Family’ clan has been fitted with a collar containing a SIM card that sends out a text message every hour announcing her (and therefore her family’s) whereabouts, and the same technique is being used on lone bulls.

Rather different conditions are found in Botswana, which actually has the most elephants (possibly 76,000). However, they are scattered over vast areas, and game viewing is not as commercially organised as in South Africa, where the Kruger National Park is well in the lead.

Fortunately the situation, both for viewing and population numbers in southern Africa generally is improving with the end of various wars.

The Zambian herds in the Luangwa, Kafue and Zambezi valleys are on the increase again after severe decline, and South Africa is exporting elephants to Mozambique.

One great place to see mature elephants roaming around is the Victoria Falls area. They often cross between Zambia and Zimbabwe by island-hopping and swimming across the Zambezi well upstream of the Falls, and many family-run game lodges and camps have been set up between Livingstone and the Caprivi Strip. Although the little town of Victoria Falls has grown a lot in recent years, it’s not uncommon to see one or two mature females with their young strolling across the roads near town, drinking by the river, or even scratching their chins on the roof of a private car full of wide-eyed passengers. The message is, don’t hoot – it can sound like a challenge; don’t leave the car; then back off or move on very slowly. If there are youngsters, be extra wary.

No-one in their right mind would try to feed them, but some still do, with dire results. These generally placid females are accepted by the local people and vice versa, but they are still wild, and may attract bulls from elsewhere.

Sitting in a car being used as a back-scratcher by a wild elephant is about as personal as most of us want to get. But for even closer encounters of the not-so-wild kind, south-east Asia is the place. In India, the elephant god Gamesh has been worshipped for millennia and elephants were much used in royal and religious ceremonials, so it is around temples and palaces that most trained elephants now live. The ride up to the Amber Palace near Jaipur in the swaying howdah of a patient giant in her best finery including full face-paint is a never-tobe forgotten experience. But then neither is encountering a procession of elephants on their way to work along a road carrying their packed lunches of leaves and sugarcane. Sadly the number of elephants in Asian cities is declining because traffic pollution weakens their lungs, but a better option is an elephant-back photo safari in the game reserves.

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Some southern Sri Lankan resorts offer elephant-back safaris, and so does the north of Thailand where there are forest work camps around Chiang Mai in particular where you can see the ‘workers’ practising their skills at rolling and stacking logs – or football. Getting very busy and commercialised now is the Elephant Festival at Surin, north-east Thailand, (always held on the third Saturday of November) where there are mock battles, tugs of war and elephant polo.

The resorts of both Thailand and Sri Lanka may have young elephants visiting the Young elephant on his way to work, Phuket, Thailand. hotels, who often walk to work by splashing (Picture by: Kate Nivison) along in the sea. One favourite is a mature female called Monica, who specialises in birthdays and weddings at the beach hotels in the Wadduwa area of rubbish when they are not rehearsing for Asia’s most spectacular south-west Sri Lanka. In her sequinned red satin gown, she makes a festival, the Kandy Perahera. Every night for almost two weeks, wonderful bridesmaid/backdrop and gets herself into every picture. The usually in August, increasing numbers of brilliantly liveried elephants only way to top the sensation of being picked up in the gentle coils of take part in wonderful torchlight street processions accompanied Monica’s trunk is to visit the Elephant Orphanage at Pinnawella. Here by glittering troupes of dancers, musicians and acrobats. On the last you can watch the babies being bottle-fed, then see over fifty elephants night, the Temple Tusker himself bears the sacred relic of the Buddha’s tooth in a jewelled casket. Being a religious festival, its actual date is of all ages pushing and squealing with glee as they charge down to the decided annually only in January according to moon phases and other river for their twice-daily bath, which is clearly as much fun for them as auspicious signs, so it isn’t really geared for mass tourism. it is for their delighted visitors.

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Ethiopia through the Millennia

The Emergence in Ethiopia of ‘Primitive Money’.

By Richard Pankhurst

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thiopia, like many other ancient civilizations, has had its ups and downs. Early in the Christian era the ancient Aksumites, who lived in the north of the country, minted coins, in gold, silver and bronze, which circulated for hundreds of years. The use of money was, however, later abandoned, and for hundreds of years the people of Ethiopia made use of barter, i.e. the exchange of one thing for another – and what economic historians have termed ‘primitive money’.

The use of barter in Ethiopia was described in the early 16th century by the Portuguese priest Francesco Alvares, who recalls in a famous passage that people might well exchange a

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cow, sheep or chicken for a certain quantity of grain, lemons or pepper.

Such transactions were, however, often inconvenient in that the people with cattle, sheep and chickens might not want grain, lemons or pepper - while the people with grain, lemons and pepper might not want cattle, sheep or chickens.

Both parties might want something entirely different such as, for example, mules, horsesaddles, or pottery.

There were, on the other hand, things that more or less everybody needed – and could not easily obtain. Such articles included salt, which everyone wanted in their meals, but could be obtained only with great difficulty, as it had to be transported from the far-off Danakil plain. Cloth was likewise in universal demand as more or less everybody needed clothing, but it could be obtained only from professional weavers, who tended to be in short supply, and took a long time to weave a piece of cloth. Iron was similarly not easy to come by; more or less everyone wanted it – for the manufacture of ploughshares, spearheads or swords – but it could be obtained only in certain areas of the country, and had to be worked by the country’s traditional blacksmiths who tended to be regarded as people of low repute.

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And then, in the 19th century, there was an extensive demand for cartridges, or bullets, for use in the rifles, considerable quantities of which were then being imported.

Bullets once again were in very short supply as they had to be imported from abroad, for the most part from Europe.

Each of these commodities, because of their considerable – and restricted – demand, came to serve as ‘primitive money’.

Thus this consisted in Ethiopia of bars of rock salt, pieces of woven cloth, blocks of iron suitable for the manufacture of agricultural implements, and bullets needed for use in fire-arms.

The use of two of the above commodities, rock salt and iron, as well as the practice of barter, was reported in Ethiopia as early as the sixth century. They are mentioned by the remarkable Egyptian trader-cum-monk Kormas Indikopleustes. He writes, in his Christian Topography, that merchants travelling from Aksum to the gold-producing countries to the west “take along with them to the mining district oxen, lumps of salt, and iron”.

Bars of rock salt, traditionally known as amole chaw, i.e. amole salt, were later described by Alvares. He states that they were cut into blocks nearly a span long and three or four fingers thick and wide. Though more or less identical in size and composition, they varied greatly in value, from one part of the country to another. They were thus relatively cheap near the salt-mines where they were plentiful but “very dear‚ in the interior of the country whither they had been transported with much difficulty and effort”. Variations in value were also due to taxation, which was levied on the salt caravans at virtually every customs post they passed. Many salt bars were also damaged or lost en route.

Pieces of locally-produced cloth also served as ‘primitive money’ in some areas, mainly in the north of the country. Such pieces, which were spun by female spinners and woven by male

weavers (who alone possessed looms and the ability to use them) tended to be of standard size and design, and were more or less of uniform value.

Bars of iron used as ‘primitive money’ were less common.

They also tended, however, to be of standard size end shape.

Many were reported to be about three inches long, by two inches wide, i.e. about the shape and size needed for their manufacture into traditional plough-shares.

The last of the types of ‘primitive money’ here discussed, cartridges or bullets, became important in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when they were used both in taxation and as payment for use of the telegraph-telephone system then being introduced by Ethiopia’s reforming Emperor Menelik.

Proof that such cartridges, or bullets, constituted items of ‘primitive money’ for use in buying or selling, rather than objects for military or hunting purposes, can be seen in the fact that many Ethiopians of the time would stuff their cartridgebelts with cartridges which could in no way fit into their rifles.

‘Primitive money’ had many inconveniences which assisted the advent in Ethiopia of the famous Maria Theresa dollar, or thaler, which for a time was to constitute the principal currency of the realm.

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Flying High Brian Johnston looks into the history of flags and unfurls some fascinating facts.

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he Soccer World Cup is almost upon us: the players, the competition, the drama and, of course, the pre-match singing. It’s one of the iconic images of the World Cup, as soccer players stand on the pitch teary-eyed, clutching their hearts and singing lustily as their anthem plays and flags flutter.

Flags will be everywhere at the World Cup, just as they are at the Olympics and other famous sporting events. In fact, no flag is more recognizable than the Olympic rings. The Olympic flag was designed in 1913 by the founder of the modern Games himself, Baron Pierre de Coubertin, and made its first appearance at the Antwerp Olympics of 1920. (The original flag was retired in 1984, and a new one has been used at opening and closing ceremonies since 1988.) The five interlaced rings represent the five continents, though contrary to popular myth no one ring is associated with any particular continent. In fact, the colours of the rings were chosen simply because every national flag in the world at the time contained at least one of these colours. The Olympic flag is, however, unique in one respect: its white background. Large expanses of white are generally avoided in national flags owing to their symbolic association with surrender.

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Fluttering flags are familiar at all sporting events these days, but national flags are actually a relatively new concept. Before the 18th century most flags represented the personal authority of a ruler, rather than a nation. These probably first appeared on the scene in China and India a thousand years or more ago, but they were part of an array of royal insignia that included such things as state umbrellas and yaks’ tails. Elongated flags, known as pennants, were also carried by knights in medieval Europe, identifying them behind visors and armour and providing a useful rallying point during battles when it would have been difficult to distinguish friend from foe. Indeed, from China to Europe these pennants were often the focus of the battle itself, and when a pennant fell the result was usually confusion and defeat.

European pennants generally had tapering ends, but when a knight was promoted the end was cut off, resulting in a rectangle known as a banner; such knights were called bannerets. The aristocracy in Europe still flies such banners; in the United Kingdom, one flies over the home of Queen Elizabeth when she is in residence, and sports lions and unicorns.

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messages to each other. This removed the notion of flags identifying any one person or family, and with the emergence of republics the need for national flags was born. These first made their appearance in Europe and North America in the 18th century. One of the world’s most recognizable flags is also one of the world’s first national flags: the Stars and Stripes of the United States. It was initially established in 1777 with 13 stars and 13 stripes, though surprisingly nobody is sure who actually designed it (it’s generally attributed to a congressman called Francis Hopkinson.) The number of stripes has remained the same but the number of stars has increased over the years, since the stars represented the states as they joined the union. The exact design of the flag was only confirmed by executive order in 1912. American flags predating this can sometimes look quite odd, with haphazard arrangements of the stars. All versions of the U.S. flags ever used are still legal, as new versions have been authorized, but old versions have never been unauthorized.

The design of early national flags avoided the images, such as animals and flowers, that dominated aristocratic emblems. Many of the earliest national flags in Europe were derived from the red, white and blue stripes of the Netherlands, which, thanks to that country’s long war of independence with Spain, became associated with liberty and republican government. (Initially the red stripe had been orange, since the leader of the revolt against the Spanish Empire was William of Orange.) Interestingly, ask any English speaker to list these three colours and they’ll almost certainly say ‘red, white and blue’ – the order they appear on the Netherlands flag from top to bottom.

After the French Revolution, France also took up these colours, although realigning the stripes vertically rather than horizontally. The Russian flag is also modelled on the Netherlands example, though the colours are reversed, with white on top and blue and red beneath.

The Russian flag was designed by Peter the Great, who was a lover of seafaring and greatly admired the Dutch.

A significant proportion of today’s national flags are still red, white and blue. The colours of flags often have a certain symbolism. Red is said to represent revolution or power; orange, courage and sacrifice, green, safety and hope. Flags are actually very conservative with their use of colours, with nearly every national flag relying on just a handful: red, white, blue, green, yellow, black and orange. But flags also change surprisingly often depending on political circumstance. The Russian flag was abandoned for nearly 70 years, during which time it was replaced by the Soviet hammer and sickle. A new swathe of former Soviet republics came up with new flags in the 1990s. The Sri Lankan flag has been modified four times in the last half century. Recently Iraq, Bahrain, East Timor, Afghanistan, Rwanda and Comoros have all adopted new flags.

Colour apart, most national flags rely on basic patterns such as horizontal or vertical stripes. This was partly a practical consideration, since until very recently flags had to be sewn together from different coloured fabrics. A very few flags do contain words, such as that of Saudi Arabia (‘There is no God but God, and Mohammed is His Messenger’) and Brazil (‘Order and Progress’). Some have distinct images: the cedar tree of Lebanon, the dragon of Wales and Bhutan, and the distinctive Canadian maple leaf. One of the great symbols of the 20th century was the Soviet hammer and sickle, which can still be seen on the flag of Angola. The eagle, an imperial symbol since Roman times, appears on the flags of countries as various as Germany, Albania and Russia. Since the eagle was also the symbol of the great Muslim warrior Saladin during the Crusades, some Arab nations such as Egypt also feature the bird.

Religious symbols are also common on flags. The flag of Cambodia shows a picture of the five-spired temple of Angkor Wat. The crescent moon of Islam is seen on the flags of Pakistan and Tunisia. The colour green is also traditionally associated with Islam; the flags of Saudi Arabia and Libya have green backgrounds, those of Kuwait, Jordan and Sri Lanka green stripes. Many European flags are actually derived from the Christian cross. Stylised crosses appear on the flags of Greece, the Scandianavian countries and Switzerland. The colours of the Swiss flag were reversed to give one of the most recognisable flags, that of the Red Cross.

When Georgia adopted a new flag in 2004 it was white with a red cross and four other red crosses in each quarter. This is the same cross of St George, patron saint of Georgia and also of England. The same red cross forms part of the well-recognised Union flag of Britain, where it is overlaid with the blue cross of St Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland.

Ethiopia’s national flag consists of three wide horizontal stripes of green, yellow and red, whilst in the centre is the national coat of arms – a blue circle containing interwoven straight yellow lines forming a star, with yellow rays radiating from it. This reflects the desire of the nations, nationalities and peoples of Ethiopia, as well as its religious communities, to live together in unity and equality.

The most philosophical of all flags? That would have to be the flag of Korea. It symbolises the whole mysticism and ancient thought of the country. The half-blue, half-red circle in the centre represents the union of yin and yang and highlights the duality of all creation.

Around this there are four trigrams of broken and unbroken lines, which represent Heaven, Earth, Water and Fire, further illustrating the theory of opposites and balance.

Balance is certanly one of the qualities athletes will need in the Soccer World Cup, as well as flair and energy. Enjoy the sport and the skill – and don’t forget to spare a thought for all those marvellous flags.

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Africa’s five seek African teams may not have won the World Cup yet, but they have upset the former West Germany, the Argentineans, the Spanish and the French; flooded and thoroughly enriched European football; and added flavour and magic to world football. Elshadai Negash looks at Africa’s five representatives in this summer’s football world cup.

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ootball (or ‘soccer’) is arguably the most popular sport on planet Earth and, for millions around the world, it does not get much bigger than the football World Cup, the most prestigious sporting event on the football calendar, held once every four years.

Thirty-two teams from across the globe make up the field for the 2006 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany this summer. Six continents are represented and six past winners will take part, including hosts Germany, who head the 14-strong European contingent, and holders Brazil who lead the South American challenge.

As in many parts of the world, the game of football is highly popular in Africa, which has a quota of five teams. The best performance by an African team in the history of the tournament was a quarter-final berth by Cameroon in Italia’90, a feat repeated by Senegal in the 2002 edition, co-hosted by Japan and South Korea. The growth of the beautiful game within the continent, coupled with the outstanding performance of African players in top leagues around the world would suggest that the continent is getting closer to at least bettering the mark set by the two West African nations.

Out of the five nations who made it to the finals last time around, only Tunisia return to take their place in the group stages in Germany.

The traditional football powerhouses of Africa – Cameroon, Nigeria, Senegal, Morocco, Egypt, and South Africa – all failed to make it through a tricky qualification campaign filled with surprises.

Instead, debutants Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, and Angola will join Tunisia in the finals in Germany having successfully negotiated their place among the world’s top 32 teams.

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Tunisia are the most experienced of the lot with French coach, Roger Lemere, hoping that his combination of youth and experience will see the Carthage Lions successfully through a difficult-looking group that includes Spain, Ukraine, and Saudi Arabia.

Winners of the 2004 African Nations Cup, held on home soil, Tunisia still remain one of the strongest teams on the continent. Their solid back line is marshalled by Rahi Jaidi, who plays his club football for English premiership side Bolton Wonderers. Ajax Amsterdam’s Hatem Trabelsi captains the side and will be hoping to bring his experience of playing in the Champions League to a young team.

But for Tunisia to make any kind of progress out of the group stages, they will rely on the firepower of their Brazilian-born centre-forward, Santos. The 29-year-old scored four goals in the 2006 African Nations Cup and, if injury-free, could be one of the ‘discoveries’ of the tournament in Germany.

Ivory Coast caused the biggest surprise in the qualifiers by coming out on top of a group that included Cameroon and Egypt.

They nearly repeated the trick months later in the African Nations Cup, galloping their way to the final, only to lose to Egypt on penalties.

Chelsea’s Didier Drogba proved that he is one of the continent’s top marksmen, netting nine goals in the qualifiers to help his team to their first ever appearance at the World Cup. Many in the Ivorian camp, including French coach Henri Michel, hope that his luck in front of goal does not desert him in Germany.

Apart from Drogba’s towering presence in the front, the Elephants’ team is filled with quality throughout their side. Goalkeeper Jean Jacques Tizie is one the continent’s most experienced keepers and has established a mutual understanding with his back line, marshalled by the versatile Kolo Toure. Didier Zakora provides much-needed protection for his defence, while striker Aruna Dindane will hope to make a successful return to the side after missing the African Nations Cup due to bereavement and injury.

Ghanaians around the world felt that justice was duly served when their football overcame a strong challenge from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Africa to qualify for their first ever World Cup, despite winning the African Nations Cup four times.

Serbian coach, Radomir Djukovic, will boast having some of the continent’s top players at his disposal, but his tactical acumen could be the difference between Ghana getting through from an impossiblelooking group including three-time champions, Italy, the Czech Republic, and the USA.

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Sports Sports Sports The group stages (eight groups of four teams) kick off on 9th June and continue until 23rd June before the best 16 teams go into the knock-out stages from 24th June. The Final takes place on 9th July.

The thirty-two finalists for the FIFA World Cup line up as follows: Group A: Germany, Costa Rica, Poland, Ecuador Group B: England, Paraguay, Trinidad and Tobago, Sweden Group C: Argentina, Côte d’Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Serbia and Montenegro Group D: Mexico, Iran, Angola, Portugal Group E: Italy, Ghana, USA, Czech Republic Group F: Brazil, Croatia, Australia, Japan Group G: France, Switzerland, Korea Republic, Togo Group H: Spain, Ukraine, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia

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English premiership champions, Chelsea, spent a whopping £24 million on Michael Essien to prize him away from French League champions, Olympique Lyonnais last summer. The 22-year-old from Accra has since put on some fitting displays for club and country to suggest that he could play a pivotal role for the Black Stars in Germany.

Ghana’s strong midfield will also look to skipper Stephan Appiah of Turkish club Fenerbache for leadership and Sulley Ali Muntari of Udinese for creativity, while AS Roma’s Samuel Kuffour is expected to add discipline to an already-frugal backline.

Angola declared a national holiday when they sealed their place in the World Cup finals in October 2005, most famously pipping Nigeria in the final round of qualifying matches. Their success has been down to former junior team coach, Luis Oliveira Goncalves. His playing career never really took off, but he has worked wonders coaching Angola’s under-15s, under-17s, under-20s and now the senior team. ‘We are not going to win the World Cup,’ he says. ‘We have had decades of civil war.

It is a wonderful achievement just to be there.’

Leading the southern African nation’s charge in Germany will be their 33-year old striker, Fabrice Akwa. Thanks to an impressive goal scoring record that never seems to desert him, Akwa is a fans’ favourite and will again be key to their World Cup hopes.

Strike partner Pedro Mantorras has struggled to establish himself in Benfica’s first team, due to a combination of injuries and loss of form this season, but he will be key to Angola’s chances of penetrating the opposition defences.

A few years ago, many teams would have jumped at the chance of facing Togo and handing them rugby-score beatings. But after the Hawks’ impressive qualifying campaign that saw them scrape past Senegal, not many would be too keen on facing them this time around.

Togo’s place in the finals was sealed, thanks to the scoring prowess of striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who hit eleven goals in the preliminaries. Full-back Emmanuel Mathias has been in stunning form since making his Togolese debut in March 2004, but much will depend of the solidarity of the team after much-publicized in-fighting between players and coaching staff.

In the past, the World Cup has always been the preserve of teams from Europe or South America, but the days when the other teams simply made up the numbers have long gone. The top sides know that there will be no easy games in the competition and if they take any opponents lightly they could be in for a shock.

And Africa’s five representatives will only be too glad to capitalize.

Elshadai Negash is the Managing Director of Endurance magazine (a new Ethiopian sports magazine), Ethiopian correspondent for the website and magazine of the IAAF, editor of Ethiopia’s only athletics-based website www. ethiopiarun.org, and a regular contributor to Selamta.

Please email comments to elshadainegash@yahoo.com

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Sports Sports Sports Robel Teklemariam Gold is not all that glitters He finished 84th out of 99 competitors in his race at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, but Robel Teklemariam grabbed even more headlines than the race winner after becoming the first Ethiopian to compete in the Winter Olympics.

Elshadai Negash profiles the Ethiopian skier whose Olympic dream was finally fulfilled on snow.

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he very mention of words ‘ice’ and ‘snow’ are enough to send a chill through the bodies of many Ethiopians, but nobody told that to Robel Teklemariam when he strapped on skis for the first time at the tender age of 13.

Now 31, Teklemariam became the first Ethiopian to represent his country in the history of the Winter Olympics where he finished 84th over the 15-kilometre classical cross-country skiing race. He finished in 47 minutes, 53.8 seconds, or nearly 10 minutes behind Estonian gold medallist, Andrus Veerpalu, but ahead of skiers from Macedonia, Mongolia, Argentina, Ireland, Armenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Iran, Kenya, Brazil, Portugal, Nepal, Costa Rica and Thailand.

“How great it is. It’s in the books now,” said Teklemariam after his achievement.

In Turin, he was the entire Ethiopian team at the Winter Olympics: the athlete, the coach, vice chairman of the Ethiopian National Ski Federation, equipment manager and support staff. After three years of lobbying the Ethiopian Ministry of Youth, Sports, and Culture and the Ethiopian Olympic Committee (EOC) to recognize the Ethiopian National Ski Federation which he had formed, Teklemariam, much like his childhood hero Abebe Bikila, fulfilled his dream by competing in the Olympics.

“I cannot see myself not skiing,” he says. “It has become such an integral part of who I am that it would seem weird to not ski.”

The seeds of his skiing career were planted much earlier in his career when his mother, Yeshareg Demissie, an employee of the United Nations, was transferred to the organization’s headquarters in New York. She took her family with her, including young Teklemariam who was only nine years old at the time.

“I had a great childhood growing up in Ethiopia,” he says. “We spent summer vacations in Sodere. I loved it there. I liked playing in the hills; I used to enjoy feeding the monkeys. I guess I was always drawn to the mountains.”

After initially having trouble settling in a new country, Teklemariam joined a boarding school in Lake Placid where he became instantly addicted to skiing.

“My first time skiing was on a hill next to the dining room of the school,” he recalls. “I remember thinking how it was so hard to stand on them. But I knew right away I would spend a lot of time on them.”

But Teklemariam had a second skiing experience he would rather forget. “I was dead last and only finished one lap of two,” he reminisces.

“That would be the last time I would not finish a race.”

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Teklemariam has very much stuck to his promise, but even at a tender age his dream has always been to take part in the Olympics, the greatest showpiece event on earth. “I guess my first role model or hero would be Abebe Bekila,” he says. “That is why this Olympics in Turin means so much to me. The last time the Olympics were in Italy was when he [Bikila] won gold for the first time. Until this day, I can only imagine what it must have been like for him.”

But in order to fulfill his dream, he chose the most difficult of disciplines. “He would train to hike long distances in a day,” his first coach David Hochschartner told the Houston Chronicle in February. “He would do eight mountains with almost 10,000 feet gained in elevation.”

After finishing high school, he was good enough to be recruited by the University of New Hampshire on a full-time athletic scholarship, the first skier to accomplish the feat in the University’s history. There he made it to the National Collegiate Athletics Association (NCAA) championships in his junior year and finished in the top 30 in the country.

But by the time of his graduation in 1997 he was so burnt out from over-racing that he decided to skip competition and return to Colorado [where he attended his high school] to teach Alpine skiing and snowboarding.

“About three years ago the need to race Nordic came back to me stronger than it had ever been,” he recalls. “Since there have been people in their 30s and a few in their early 40s that have done well in the past, it was not out of the question to race again. The Olympic dream was stronger than ever and since no one was going to hand me the opportunity, I began the work that was necessary to get it done.”

That work included training and competing his heart out in many races as well as forming the Ethiopian National Skiing Federation from scratch since Ethiopia did not have one. And after lobbying for three years, the Ethiopian Olympic Committee (EOC) finally gave him the nod to compete in Turin.

Teklemariam also admits that he would not have made it far without the support of Ethiopians around the world. “I know it must be hard to comprehend an Ethiopian ski racer and yet I still get their support,” he says of his fast-growing fan base. “I have never forgotten who I am. I am an Ethiopian through and through. I might have not won in Turin, but the fact that I was there meant a lot to me and my compatriots.”

And when Teklemariam crossed the finish line of his race in damp snowy conditions in Turin, 83 places behind the winner, many around the world came to know that it is not only gold that glitters!

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Avian flu is becoming more dangerous Isolated outbreaks of bird flu in humans have been occurring for some years but usually with mild problems such as conjunctivitis and have rarely been fatal. Now, however, avian flu threatens to become more dangerous.

At the beginning of 2005 the deaths of two young boys in Vietnam from a strain of influenza known as influenza A H5N1- or more simply ‘bird flu’ - led a major challenge for health authorities worldwide. In 1918 a pandemic of flu swept the world killing more than 20 million people, and many infectious disease experts now believe that another flu pandemic could be imminent. The appearance in humans of a type of flu which normally only affects birds may be an important sign that some strains of the virus are changing in a way that could threaten people around the globe.

Influenza A viruses naturally occur in wild birds. Although these birds aren’t affected by the virus, domestic poultry such as chickens and turkeys are - and so are people.

However, the strain found in the Vietnamese boys seems to be more dangerous. More than 90 per cent of birds who get H5N1 die, and mortality among humans is also high. The H5N1 virus was first shown to have passed from birds to humans in 1997, during an outbreak of avian influenza among poultry in Hong Kong.

The virus caused severe respiratory illness in 18 people, of whom six died. In the past year or two there have been a stream of cases reported by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Asia. Up to November 2005, worldwide130

people had caught the infection, as a result of close and direct contact with infected birds.

Sixty-seven of these have subsequently died.

More worryingly, recent research has shown that H5N1 has changed so that it’s even more deadly in chickens and mice, and can now infect cats too. H5N1 is also resistant to some of the drugs used to treat flu.

H5N1 has become common among birds in Asia, who shed the virus in their saliva, nasal secretions and faeces. Millions of chickens and ducks have been slaughtered across South East Asia in recent months in an effort to prevent spread of the virus from birds to humans. Work is also underway to make a vaccine against H5N1. But it will take time and that is in short supply. If H5N1 becomes able to pass from human to human then the situation will be even more serious as most people have little immunity to the strain and there will be rapid spread. In September 2004, the first possible case of human-to-human transmission was reported in Thailand.

Symptoms of bird flu • Fever • Sore throat • Muscle aches • Headache • Lethargy • Conjunctivitis (eye infections) • Breathing problems • Chest pains

Flu viruses continually change One of the most worrying features of the viruses which cause flu is the way that they are continually changing over time, through small changes in their make-up called antigenic drift and occasional abrupt major changes called antigenic shift.

This can mean that, although you might have fought and won a battle against flu a year or two ago, the next time the virus appears your body won’t recognize it. The antibodies your body made against flu last time won’t work. So the immune system must learn to fight it all over again. This is why people need to be immunized against flu each year, using the most up-to-date strains of the virus.

There are three types of influenza viruses: A, B, and C. Influenza C only causes mild problems in humans. Influenza B can cause more serious illness and seasonal epidemics, but because it only changes through the slower process of antigenic drift there is little risk of a pandemic, where millions of people are suddenly exposed to a new, dramatically different virus. That threat is more likely to come from Influenza type A which does undergo shift.

Hepatitis C and the nutrition factor The Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is one of the most significant health problems affecting the liver. More than 170 million individuals in the world have HCV. In the U.S. and Western Europe, the complications of HCV chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis are the most common reasons for liver transplantation. One of the major problems with HCV infections is that 85% of individuals initially infected with this virus will become chronically infected, usually for decades. The propensity of HCV to cause chronic infection is explained by the extraordinary ability of this virus (in contrast to most other viruses, including hepatitis A) to avoid destruction by the body’s immune defense system.

Once established, chronic HCV infection causes an inflammation of the liver called chronic hepatitis. This condition can progress to scarring of the liver, called fibrosis, or more advanced scarring, called cirrhosis. Some patients with cirrhosis will go on to develop liver failure or the complications of cirrhosis, including liver cancer.

A drug called interferon is the mainstay of conventional treatment, often combined with an antiviral (virus-fighting) drug called ribavirin. Such combination therapies are usually taken for six months to one year.

For liver health, avoid alcohol, bad fats and sugars. Foods high in vitamin A, B complex and anti-inflammatory factors are needed.

Source: www.healthscienceupdate.com, Dr. Vic Shayne, food science researcher and author of Man Cannot Live on Vitamins Alone (amazon.com) April - June 2006

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Technology

Gummi Camera Phone Lenses

iPod Nano – 2G (Black)

This one is for all you budding digital camera diva artists out there. Now that almost every mobile phone you can buy has a digital camera on board, it’s clear that the only thing missing is a bunch of cool accessories to make your photography really stand out.

The Gummi Camera Phone Lenses are simple to use. Take one of the three lenses provided, attach it to your mobile phone with a universal re-usable “Gummi” ring (a rubber attachment ring that doesn’t use glue, or mark your phone in any way), and start producing pictures with groovy effects. In seconds you can add wide-angle, soft focus, kaleidoscopic and stretched effects. It also comes with a lens cap to keep your camera phone lens clean.

The kit will fit virtually any camera phone – even the new breed of phones with their

There is something irrevocably wonderful about the iPod Nano. Imagine a business card.

Now make it thick enough to take a standard headphones jack... and that’s it! Let it sink in that this diminutive device holds up to 500 songs which is nearly fifty full-length CD’s worth, and it has all the features you would expect from an iPod. Astonishingly good sound, a full colour screen (and storage for 25,000 pictures), easy access to your music with the “Click Wheel”, Podcasts, audio books, full integration with iTunes, Calendar and Contacts, World Clocks, Stopwatch, Games and loads more. We’re not even mentioning all the standard MP3 player features like the equalizer, shuffle play mode, the ability to create play lists and rate your tunes on the fly (although it seems we just did). And it is fully compatible with most of the iPod accessories out there.

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Swiss Bit S.Beat MP3 It had to happen, the world’s first gadget has been tech’ed up. Tucked into a slick little Swiss Army Knife from Victorinox is a 1 Gig detachable MP3 Player (so you can pop the knife in your luggage and carry the player onto a plane when travelling). The knife has a blade, nail file and scissors, and the MP3 player will play MP3, WAV and WMA files, has an FM radio, a voice recorder, a rather neat remote control dongle, and a sexy jogging arm-band so you can listen to your tunes when you’re - well, jogging presumably. Beautifully made, and ideal for all sport nuts.

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own shutter lens protectors. The lenses and Gummi ring are completely re-usable and easily removable, so you can use it on more than one phone.

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Iz Speakers Iz (pronounced is) produces a hip hop cacophony of funky sounds, beats and rhythms (don’t all aliens?), and is as his inventor so aptly puts it ‘the interactive dude with attitude’. Standing nearly 23cm tall, Iz is a space age DJ that plays infectious beats when you poke his belly, cool musical leads and rhythms when you twist his ears, and even drops in some scratch breaks when you flick the antennae-like dongle over his head. You can control the rhythms, tempo, breaks and leads by prodding and twisting his body parts, and all the while his goggly eyes will wobble about and hit trombone nose flashes different colours.

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Travel DVD Player 8 Imagine you’re packing for a trip and there’s just enough room left in the case for that hardback book you’ve been slogging through for months. Now you can ditch the reading and stow this little beauty instead.

Not much larger than the average Forsythesque saga (and considerably slimmer at just 3.3cm deep), this desirable Travel DVD Player gives you a personal widescreen cinema to enjoy anywhere you go.

The display is a high-resolution 7” TFT LCD in 16:9 widescreen format with enhanced sideviewing angles. The player works with loads of disc formats: DVD, plus VCD, SVCD, audio CD/MP3, picture CDs (JPEG) and it will read CD-R and CD-RW. It delivers big 24-bit sound via headphones

or the internal speakers - and Dolby Digital output lets you link it up to a home theatre sound system.

Multi-speed, repeat, search by time, last memory playback and even a 4x zoom function mean that this Travel DVD player is up there with any of the far more expensive ones.

Capable of genuine worldwide use, the player runs off an integral rechargeable power pack.

Includes 110/120/220V charger/adapter, an in-car adaptor to keep back-seat drivers quiet, a compact battery pack, and has a super slim multifunction IR remote control. Whether you’ve got a long car journey and need to keep your backseat drivers entertained, or you want to catch up on a few movies on holiday, the TDP8 is visual heaven at a wonderful price.

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HEALTHY TRAVELLING

Foot pumps: Start with both heels on the floor and point feet upward as high as you can. Then put both feet flat on the floor. Then lift heels high, keeping the balls of your feet on the floor. Continue cycle in 30 second intervals.

Knee lifts: Lift leg with knees bent while contracting your thigh muscles. Alternate legs. Repeat 20 to 30 times for each leg.

Shoulder roll: Hunch shoulders forward, then upward, then backward, then downward, using a gentle, circular motion.

Arm Curl: Start with arms held at a 90-degree angle: elbows down, hands out in front. Raise hands up to chest and back down, alternating hands. Do this exercise in 30second intervals.

Knee to chest: Bend forward slightly.

Clasp hands around the left knee and hug it to your chest. Hold stretch for 15 seconds.

Keeping hands around knee, slowly let it down.

Alternate legs. Repeat 10 times.

Forward Flex: With both feet on the floor and stomach held in, slowly bend forward and walk your hands down the front of your legs towards your ankles. Hold the stretch for 15 seconds and slowly sit back up.

Overhead stretch: Raise both hands straight up over your head. With one hand, grasp the wrist of the opposite hand and gently pull to one side.

Hold stretch for 15 seconds. Repeat on the other side.

Other Tips for a Comfortable Flight • For your own comfort try and travel light.

• Wear loose clothing and elasticated stockings made of natural fibre.

• Increase your normal intake of water and only if need be drink alcohol but in moderation.

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Shoulder stretch: Reach right hand over left shoulder. Place left hand behind right elbow and gently press elbow toward shoulder. Hold stretch for 15 seconds.

Repeat on the other side.

Use moisturising cream to keep your skin from drying out.

• Take off shoes in the plane to prevent your feet from swelling up or wear shoes that will cope with expanding ankles.

• Avoid heavy meals during the flight.

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Short walks once every two hours are excellent for circulation.

• Try to touch your toes when waiting in the aisle to stretch your hamstrings.

Neck roll: With shoulders relaxed, drop ear to shoulder and gently roll neck forward and to the other side, holding each position about five seconds.

Repeat five times.

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On arrival at your destination, have a hot shower or a relaxing bath.

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On arrival a quick jog, brisk walk, or a vigorous scrub will help stimulate your circulation.

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Ankle circles: Lift feet off the floor, draw a circle with the toes, simultaneously moving one foot clockwise and the other foot counterclockwise.

Reverse circles. Do each direction for 15 seconds.

Repeat if desired.

Seated Exercises

These gentle exercises, which you can carry out easily during your flight, will help blood circulation and reduce any tiredness or stiffness that may result from sitting in one place for several hours. Check with your doctor first if you have any health conditions which might be adversely affected by exercise.

Ethiopian Airlines disclaim any responsibility in the unlikely event that you may suffer any injury as a direct result of these gentle exercises.

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TIPS FOR THE TRAVELLER IN ETHIOPIA

Land

There are two seasons: the dry season prevails from October through May; the wet season runs from June to September.

authorities on the appropriate blue-coloured form. Foreign currency may only be exchanged at authorised banks and hotels, and a receipt must be obtained. The currency declaration form must be retained as this will be required by customs on departure. Visitors may change back any surplus Ethiopian Birr to cash at the airport before departure. In addition to any Ethiopian Birr, along with the currency exchange form you must bring with you all receipts for exchange transactions.

Topography

Public Holidays

Ethiopia covers an area of 1.14 million square kilometres (944,000 square miles).

Climate

Ethiopia has an elevated central plateau varying in height between 2,000 and 3,000 metres. In the north and centre of the country there are some 25 mountains whose peaks rise over 4,000 metres. The most famous Ethiopian river is the Blue Nile (or Abbay), which runs a distance of 1,450 kilometres from the source in Lake Tana, to join the White Nile at Khartoum.

Economy

About 90 per cent of the population earn their living from the land, mainly as subsistence farmers. Agriculture is the backbone of the national economy and the principal exports from this sector are coffee, oil seeds, pulses, flowers, vegetables, sugar and foodstuffs for animals. There is also a thriving livestock sector, exporting cattle on the hoof, hides and skins.

Language

Ethiopia is a multi-ethnic state with a great variety of languages spoken in the country, of which there are 83 with 200 dialects. The main three languages are Amharic, Tigrigna and Oromigna. English is also widely spoken.

Electric supply

Ethiopia uses 220 volts 50 cycles AC.

Time

Public holidays are celebrated according to the Ethiopian (Julian) Calendar which consists of twelve months of thirty days each and a thirteenth month of five days (six days in a leap year). The calendar is seven years behind the Western or Gregorian Calendar, with New Year falling in the month of September.

September 11 – Ethiopian New Year September 27 – The finding of the True Cross (Meskal) *December 6 – Id Al Fater January 7 – Ethiopian Christmas January 19 – Ethiopian Epiphany *February 11 – Id Al Adaha March 2 – Victory of Adwa April 25 – Ethiopian Good Friday April 27 – Ethiopian Easter May 1 – International Labour Day May 5 – Ethiopian patriots’ victory day May 13 – Moulid (Birthday of the Prophet Mohamed) May 28 – Downfall of the Dergue Regime *The holidays of Id Al Fater and Id Al Adaha have movable dates

Customs

The population is estimated at 71 million (as of 2004), over 50 per cent of whom are under 20 years old.

Duty-free imports are permitted for up to: a) 200 cigarettes, 50 cigars, or 1/2 lb of tobacco b) 2 litres of alcoholic beverages c) Half-litre or two bottles of perfume.

Visitors may export souvenirs, although some articles (such as animal skin and antiques) require an export permit.

Excursions

Health requirements

Ethiopia is in the GMT + 3 hours time zone. Ethiopia follows the Julian calendar.

People

Excursions within Ethiopia, whether for a day or for a month, may be organized for you by any of the travel agencies or by the National Tour Operation.

Hotels

Addis Ababa has hotels that cater for all pockets, from the luxurious Sheraton and Hilton hotels to the tourist-class hotels such as the Ghion, the Ethiopia and the Wabi Shebelle. All tourist resorts offer a choice of modern hotels.

Banking Hours

Banking hours are usually from 8:00 am – 4:00 pm from Monday to Friday and from 8:00 am – 11:00 am on Saturdays. Closing times may be an hour longer in some private banks. Most banks work through lunchtime; however foreign exchange services are closed during lunch hours (12:00 noon – 1:00 pm).

Communications

Telephone, fax and Internet access is available in Addis Ababa in most hotels, at the Ethiopian Telecommunications Authority main office and at private Internet service centres situated around the city.

Courier and Money Transfer Services

Money transfers can be made through Western Union and Money Gram. Both have representative branches in Addis Ababa and also make their services available from private and national banks.

For courier services, DHL, Fedex, UPS, TNT and EMS have offices in Addis Ababa.

Currency

The local currency is the Ethiopian Birr (ETB), made up of 100 cents. Birr notes are available in denominations of 5, 10, 50 and 100. Visitors may import an unlimited amount of foreign currency but this must be declared on arrival to the customs

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Prior to entry, visitors should be in possession of a valid health certificate for yellow fever. Vaccination against cholera is also required for any person who has visited or transited a cholera-infected area within six days prior to arrival in Ethiopia.

Visa and immigration requirements:

Visa applications may be obtained at Ethiopia’s diplomatic missions overseas.

However, nationals of 33 countries are now allowed to receive their tourist visas on arrival in Ethiopia at the regular charge. The list includes Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greek, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Kuwait, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Newzealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, citizens of United Kingdom and United States. For China including passports issued in Hong Kong (SAR China) and MACAO (SAR China), Visa is available on arrival.

Bole International Airport

The New Bole International Airport is situated 8 kilometre from the centre of the city (a 15 minute drive under normal conditions). Paid parking, luggage carts and uniformed porters are available at the airport terminal.

Taxis are readily available. The National Tour Operator (NTO) has yellow Mercedes sedans which can be ordered at their airport desk. The rates for these taxis are fixed and receipts will be given if requested. Privately-owned blue cabs and yellow cabs are also in abundance, but do not have fixed rates; establishing their fare is advisable before getting into the vehicle.

Foreign exchange service is available at the arrivals lounge.

Security at the airport is tight and travellers need to produce their air ticket and passport to enter the terminal building. All other visitors are required to pay a fee of two Ethiopian Birr at the booths located in the parking lot and need to show identification cards at the guard post.

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NOTE: These series will be shown only on in-bound flights to Addis Ababa.

ETHIOPIAN ENTERTAINMENT Ethiopian Airlines is proud to present to you a series of 30 films that highlight the amazing history, fascinating people, and the natural beauty of one of the most ancient countries in the world – Ethiopia. These episodes by no means show the complete picture, but will serve as a useful introduction to this land of timeless appeal.

Ethiopia: Land of Immense Investment Opportunities Ethiopia provides wide investment opportunity in many sectors, ranging from cultivation of cash crops such as coffee and oil seeds, food processing activities whose produce can be used for the export market, cultivation of flowers, animal husbandry, and fishery and irrigation projects. This episode takes you through Ethiopia’s rich natural and human resources and shows that Ethiopia is a country worth investing in.

The Gurage In this episode we take you to meet the Gurage people. The Gurage are an ethnic group descending from the Semitic language-speaking family inhabiting a scattered area outside Addis Ababa. Known for their industriousness, the Gurage are a mix of both Muslims and Christians, as well as some who remain true to traditional beliefs. We look at the colourful celebration of religious festivals and the unique attachment the Gurage have to their homeland.

Marvellous Handicrafts of Ethiopia This episode reveals a kaleidoscope of arts and crafts developed by the various ethnic groups in Ethiopia. From the weaving of intricate creations from coloured fibres and grasses, the various kinds of hand crosses, church rattles, church paintings and chandeliers of gold found in many of Ethiopia’s orthodox churches throughout the country, the tankwas (papyrus canoes) built in Bahar Dar to the ‘Berkota’ – a wooden headrest, made by the Omotic people of the Hamer, Bume and Geleb among many.

The Hamer We take you along the Omo River, which originates in the highlands south-west of Addis Ababa, north of the Kenya border into the remote wilderness of the Omo valley of southern Ethiopia. This episode features the Omotic speaking Hamer people and their uncluttered life, founded on a communal system and celebrated by ancient rituals.

South and South-west Ethiopia A journey to the south and southwestern Ethiopia – beautiful scenery and colourful cultures all combine to make this part of the country unique.

This episode features the different peoples, lakes, rivers and cultural mix that enthrall naturalists.

Rivers and Falls of Ethiopia This episode captures the countless water resources of Ethiopia that are found in different parts of the country.

When visiting Ethiopia’s rivers one encounters an amazing diversity of locations and climates, fauna and flora and indigenous peoples practicing remarkable traditions and activities.

The Borena This episode takes you to one of the many ethnic groups in Ethiopia, the Borena Oromo. The Borena originate from the Cushitic people and inhabit the vast hot plains of the southern savannah region of Ethiopia. They are semi-nomadic pastoralists who own over a million head of cattle. We take you through the fascinating lives, religion, traditions and social and political structure of the Borena.

The Anuak This episode takes you along the banks of the Baro River, the largest river of western Ethiopia flowing across the western lowlands on the border of the Sudan. The indigenous people inhabiting this wide area along the riverbank are known as the Anuak.

With roots that can be traced to the Chari-Nilotic language family of Eastern Africa, the Anuak are fisher folk who practice limited farming and even more limited pastoralism.

Coffee Coffee is the most important plant in Ethiopia, valued for its economic, spiritual, social and religious significance. This episode shows the different techniques of cultivation employed, the ceremony of brewing coffee and much more.

Flora and Fauna of Ethiopia This episode illustrates the contrasts and extremes of the Ethiopian terrain and the endemic wildlife species inhabiting the land. It takes you from the Simien and Bale mountains to the Rift Valley, and from the surrounding lakes to the national parks and the striking vegetation.

April - June 2006

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Story by Girma Fisseha. Painting by Ketsela Markos from the collection of the international SOS Children Village.

The Talkative Turtle

A

s is well known, birds can fly, fish can

as he hung onto the stick. Never before had he

swim, antelopes can jump, but turtles can

experienced such freedom – to be able to fly so high

only creep very slowly over the ground.

and fast through the air, just like his bird friends.

But one day a turtle was watching how

It was wonderful!

quickly and elegantly the birds, fish and antelope

As they flew over a village the eagle swooped

could move, and wished he could move as easily and

down so they could get a closer look at some children

gracefully as his friends. Oh, to be able to fly like

playing in a schoolyard. “Look at that silly turtle”

a bird, to swim like a

cried the children.

fish, to run and prance

“It should be crawling

like an antelope, what

along the ground as all

a wonderful thing he

other turtles do, rather

imagined. As he was

than fly.”

day-dreaming and lost

The eagle flew up

in his thoughts an eagle

higher into the sky,

happened to soar by,

but the turtle had

high in the air above

already heard the

carrying a stick to add

children. Annoyed,

to his nest.

he shouted back at

The turtle called

them “I am not a silly

out to the eagle, “Dear

turtle, I can fly!” But

Sir, please carry me up

in opening his mouth he

into the sky with you,

let go of the stick and

so that I too can fly as

started to fall toward

fast and high as you.”

the earth and his

The eagle replied, “You

certain death.

The eagle expected

have a strong beak. If you take hold of this

the turtle would do

stick with your beak

something silly, so

and clamp down tightly,

immediately he dove

I will be able to carry

down and managed

you up into the air and

to catch one of the

you will fly with me.

turtle’s crooked legs in

But in no circumstance

his beak. They returned

should you open your mouth while we are flying.”

safely to earth, after a somewhat rough landing.

Overjoyed, the turtle agreed to the eagle’s

That was the first and last time that anyone had

proposal. The eagle landed and held one end of the stick firmly in his beak while the turtle bit into it

seen a turtle fly.

The eagle was annoyed with the turtle, and they

as tightly as possible. The eagle flapped his wings,

never again spoke of their adventure. Embarrassed,

and suddenly they flew up onto the sky together.

the turtle vowed from that day on he would be

“What a wonderful experience,” the turtle thought

content to crawl along the ground.

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ETHIOPIAN ENTERTAINMENT

Outbound flights

Addis Ababa to All Africa April

May

MOVIES

June All ‘R’ rated movies have been edited for airline preview

The Legend of Zorro

Cast: Antonio Banderas Catherine Zeta Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund Director: Martin Campbell Rating: PG Runtime: 119 mins Genre: Action/Adventure The year is 1850 and our swashbuckling crusader is challenged by the most dangerous mission of his life. After fighting to help California become the 31st state of the Union, Zorro must live up to the promise he made his wife Elena - to give up his secret identity and live a normal life. When he hesitates, it threatens to tear them apart. Now, the same forces that conspired to keep California from becoming part of the United States are plotting to unleash a threat that could change the course of history forever and only Zorro can stop it.

Walk the Line

Cast: Joaquin Phoenix, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Patrick, Ginnifer Goodwin Director: James Mangold Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Docu-drama He was a voice of rebellion that changed the face of rock’n’roll, an outlaw before today’s rebels were born and an icon no one would ever forget; he did all this before turning 30 and his name was Johnny Cash. “Walk the Line” explores the early years of the music legend, an artist who transcended musical boundaries to touch people around the globe. As his music changed the world, Cash’s own world was rocked by the woman who became the love of his life: June Carter.

Cheaper by the Dozen 2

Cast: Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt, Hilary Duff, Tom Welling Director: Adam Shankman Rating: PG Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy

Tom Baker and wife Kate, take their family on a memorable summer vacation, hoping to bring the family together before some of the kids go their separate ways. They take their 12 offspring to their summer cabin at the rustic Lake Winnetka. But their retreat soon becomes cutthroat when they enter into a competition with the over-achieving members of a large family headed by Tom’s long-time rival Jimmy Murtaugh.

SHORT PROGRAMMES

Everybody Hates Chris (30 minutes) Uprooted to a new neighbourhood and sent to a primarily white middle school two hours away by his strict, hard-working parents, Chris struggles to find his place, all the while keeping his younger brother and sister in line at home and surmounting the tests of junior high school.

Everybody Hates the Pilot

Everybody Hates Keisha

Everybody Hates Basketball

Chris starts his new school and has to deal with the school bully, Joey.

When Chris’s mother, Rochelle, hires the girl next door, Keisha, to tutor Drew at Maths, Chris sees this as an ideal chance to impress her. But someone else may have the same intentions.

Chris joins the school Basketball team even though he can’t play, but a failed pop quiz threatens to get him dropped.

For Your Love (30 minutes) From commitment phobics to blissful newlyweds to wedlock veterans, For Your Love depicts love in all of its romantic, challenging and chaotically hilarious stages. Set in the suburb of Oak Park III, the series follows couples bound by friendship and family as they traverse the many phases of life and love in all their glorious complications.

The Cookie Monster

The Membership Drive

Father Fixture

After Reggie tells Bobbi that he doesn’t want to necessarily date her exclusively, Bobbi ends their relationship. To Mel’s chagrin, Malena meddles in the situation and introduces Bobbi to a cookie magnate, Derek Armstrong.

Dean suspects that racism is involved when Mel is accepted as a member of an exclusive white country club where Dean has been denied admission for three years. They suspect that he has only been given admission as a token black man.

Reggie and Mel’s retired father, James, takes charge of Reggie’s restaurant, Soulstice, and orders everyone around – even Reggie. Due to James’ sudden interest in the business, Reggie feels that his father does not trust him to manage it.

The Jamie Foxx Show (30 minutes) Texas native Jamie King is an aspiring actor who heads to Hollywood in the hope of finding fame and fortune in the entertainment industry.

To support himself, he works at the Los Angeles hotel, the King’s Towers. Be entertained as you watch his elaborate schemes to move into the limelight… usually with hilarious results!

Freezer Burn

Mo Money Mo Problems

Traffic School Daze

After Jamie enters a contest at the radio station, he wins the opportunity to host a televised summer pool party at the hotel.

Jamie is thrilled because he will be the judge for a beauty contest.

When Jamie wins a huge sum of money from a lottery, he splits it with Junior, Helen, Braxton and Fancy. Each of them makes extravagant purchases, despite their intentions to use the windfall wisely.

After Jamie and Braxton receive tickets for a traffic violation, Helen insists that they attend a military-style traffic school commanded by tough Sergeant Easy. Jamie and Braxton learn a new appreciation for the law.

Transworld Sport (30 minutes) A monthly news round-up of sports from around the world, keeping you up to date with all the latest sporting information from your favourite sports.

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Inbound flights

MOVIES & SHORT PROGRAMMES

All Africa to Addis Ababa April

May

MOVIES

June All ‘R’ rated movies have been edited for airline preview

Cake

Cast: Heather Graham, Taye Diggs, Sandra Oh, David Sutcliffe Director: Nisha Ganatra Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Romantic Comedy Taking a weekend break from her freewheeling life as travel writer and committed bachelorette, Pippa returns to her hometown to serve as a bridesmaid at yet another wedding. When Pippa’s publisher father becomes ill, she takes over as editor of his magazine “Wedding Bells.”

Free-spirit Pippa finds she must uncover her romantic side to understand the wedding business and run the magazine, whilst juggling romantic and business involvements. Suddenly her relationship-phobic ways are put to the test as she begins to change her views about marriage and true love.

Duma

Cast: Alexander Michaletos, Eamonn Walker, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis Director: Carroll Ballard Rating: PG Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Drama/Adventure When Xan and his father Peter come across an orphaned cheetah cub, they name their new friend “Duma,” the Swahili name for cheetah. He quickly becomes a member of the family, but when Duma is almost fully grown, to Xan’s dismay, his father tells him that it’s time to take his friend to his real home before he grows too old to survive in his native habitat. But when his father falls ill and Duma is at risk of captivity, Xan decides to carry out his father’s plan to take Duma home, to a safe place hundreds of miles across Africa.

Fun with Dick & Jane

Cast: Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni, Alec Baldwin, Richard Jenkins Director: Dean Parisot Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 90 mins Genre: Comedy Dick and Jane are in love and living the American dream - until one day it becomes an American nightmare. When the company Dick works for becomes involved in an Enron-like scandal and he is confronted with the prospect of losing everything, Dick and Jane are forced to beg, borrow and steal to get it all back.

SHORT PROGRAMMES Good Morning Miami (30 minutes) Talented young TV producer, Jake, arrives in Miami to revamp the lowest-rated morning show in the country. He risks taking the job when he sets eyes on the beautiful, down-to-earth hairdresser Dylan. The station also includes a pompous host, his self-centred co-host and a highly insecure station manager.

I Second that Promotion

Good Morning Manhattan

Her Place or Mine

Jake struggles in his role as Dylan’s boss and boyfriend when she expresses an interest in becoming a producer. But when Jake grants Dylan her wish of producing a piece, the others at the station accuse Jake of promoting Dylan because she’s his girlfriend.

Jake and Dylan have quit the show and moved to New York, where Jake is astounded by the modern, well-run offices of the newsmagazine show that he now works for. But he soon realises what he has left behind and heads back to Miami.

Gavin discovers that his business manager has absconded with Gavin’s money, leaving him with a huge debt to the Internal Revenue Service. Penny secretly arranges for Gavin to receive enough money to pay off his bill.

Oliver Beene (30 minutes) This comedy follows the life of 11-year-old Oliver Beene. It’s 1962 and Oliver’s world is chaotic. His dentist father, Jerry, likes to spend Sundays drilling his kids’ teeth; his mum, Charlotte does her best to be the happy homemaker and his brother Ted has a transistor radio practically glued to his head listening to sports.

Thankfully, Oliver has his friends to make his life bearable!

Oliver’s Best Friend

Soup to Nuts

A Trip to Coney Island

Oliver wants a dog but is soon disappointed when he is given a naughty dog who seems intent on causing trouble for him.

Much to his dismay, his parents don’t believe him so when he takes him for a walk he tries to lose him, only to find out the dog outsmarts him.

On the way to school, Oliver loses his lunch, but when he tries to tell everybody that he spilled his soup on the bus, no one believes him.

Jerry and his family decide to take a trip to Coney Island. The vacation sparks a feud between Jerry and his neighbour over a parking spot, but Jerry will go to any length to get the parking space.

The Job (30 minutes) New York detective Mike McNeil is well known for his uniquely unconventional, yet effective, approach of fighting crime. But it also takes a toll on his chaotic personal life, complicated by his wife and girlfriend on the side.

Bathroom

Vacation

Boss

All hell breaks lose when Frank loses a criminal inside the precinct; Mike stumbles on the criminal (who doesn’t speak any English) and is taken hostage at gunpoint; Ruben and Al are sent on a mysterious mission.

After getting into trouble for posing as a fire fighter in an unorthodox drugs raid, Mike is forced to take a vacation in Miami, but he can’t relax when he suspects one of his most wanted fugitives is staying at his hotel.

Frank heads to the track with Tommy to place bets using police department money; Jan and Ruben both vie for a gorgeous apartment left vacant by a murder.

Gillette FIFA World Cup (30 minutes) As we head towards the world cup in Germany, Gillette FIFA World Cup takes an in-depth look at all 32 teams that have reached the finals. Featuring exclusive interviews with star players and the best football action, it’s everything you need for the build up to the FIFA World Cup 2006.

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Outbound flights

Addis Ababa to Europe, Asia, Middle East, USA April

May

MOVIES

June All ‘R’ rated movies have been edited for airline preview

The Family Stone

Bee Season

Rumour Has It

Chaos reigns when the levelheaded son of a bohemian family brings home his highly strung New York girlfriend for Christmas. His whole family dislike her except for his offbeat brother, who is instantly smitten.

Overwhelmed by the hostile reception, his fiancée begs her sister to join her for emotional support, triggering further complications.

Eleven-year-old Eliza Naumann comes from an odd family; they all divert their emotional frustrations into secret channels. When Eliza unexpectedly begins winning spelling competitions, what had been a stable dynamic within the family becomes disrupted and a latent spiritual yearning is awakened in her withdrawn father. As Eliza moves closer to the national spelling competition, her family finds itself in a spiral of surprising discovery and jarring uncertainty.

Sarah Huttinger has agreed to marry her boyfriend, Jeff, but is terrified of going through with it. It isn’t until Sarah stumbles into a wellkept family secret that she starts to question her roots and sets off in search of the man who may have the answers she’s looking for.

Cast: Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Diane Keaton, Rachel McAdams Director: Thomas G. Bezucha Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 102 mins Genre: Romantic Comedy

Cast: Richard Gere, Juliette Binoche, Flora Cross, Max Minghella Director: Scott McGehee & David Siegel Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 104 mins Genre: Drama

Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Mark Ruffalo, Kevin Costner, Shirley MacLaine Director: Rob Reiner Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 97 mins Genre: Comedy/Drama

MOVIES (Additionals on Addis to USA, Beijing, Bangkok, Guangzhou & Hong Kong route) The Brothers Grimm

Zathura

Elizabethtown

Legendary fairytale scribes, Will and Jake Grimm are two brothers who travel around the Napoleonic countryside vanquishing monsters and demons in exchange for quick money. But when the French authorities figure out their scheme, the con men are forced to contend with a real magical curse when they enter an enchanted forest where young maidens keep disappearing under mysterious circumstances.

Many of their renowned fairytales are masterfully woven into the story, as the Brothers Grimm are forced to confront all that their imaginations have brought to life in this epic battle between fantasy and reality.

“Zathura” follows two squabbling brothers as they are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they discovered in the basement of their old house.

On their fantastic journey, they are joined by a stranded astronaut and must survive meteor showers, hostile aliens and an intergalactic spaceship battle. But their greatest peril lies ahead. For, unless they finish the game and reach the planet Zathura, they are doomed to be trapped in outer space forever.

Hours after a ruinous product debut, depressed industrial designer Drew Baylor learns of his estranged father’s sudden death. As the only son, Drew must travel from Los Angeles to Kentucky to his home, Elizabethtown to attend his father’s funeral. On the flight to Kentucky, Drew befriends Claire, a quick-witted flight attendant, who gives him directions to Elizabethtown and also helps him navigate the personal issues that he is facing, from which an unlikely romance blossoms.

George Lopez (30 minutes)

George Lopez (30 minutes)

George Lopez (30 minutes)

George acts as Jason’s sports agent when NFL quarterbacks visit the Lopez house and a minor league baseball recruiter approaches Jason to sign a contract. Meanwhile, Carmen and guitarist Cesar Rosas liven up George’s birthday bash.

George allows Jason, Carmen’s boyfriend, to temporarily move into the Lopez residence, enabling the teen to finish the baseball season after his parents move away.

With his daughter Carmen still gone, George goes on a hunt for her and eventually finds her in San Francisco. He finally gets her to return home, but the problems aren’t over yet.

Scooby Doo (30 minutes)

Scooby Doo (30 minutes)

The Mystery Inc. gang visits a robot resort for living out Western movie fantasies, but then the robots turn on the gang.

The ghost of a wrestling-move-gone-wrong terrifies the opening of a new wrestling facility.

Cast: Matt Damon, Heath Ledger, Monica Bellucci, Barbara Lukêsova Director: Terry Gilliam Rating: R Runtime: 117 mins Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tim Robbins, Dax Shepard, Josh Hutcherson, Jonah Bobo Director: Jon Favreau Rating: PG Runtime: 101 mins Genre: Action/Adventure

Cast: Orlando Bloom, Kirsten Dunst, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin Director: Cameron Crowe Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 120 mins Genre: Romantic Comedy

SHORT PROGRAMMES Negoti-ate It

Scooby Doo (30 minutes) Ready to Scare

The gang go to Paris to see Daphne’s cousin become model of the year. But they find she’s been abducted by a giant gargoyle.

Everybody Loves Raymond (30 minutes) Who’s Side Are You On?

When Ray catches Debra making fun of him in front of their kids, he realises his own mother turned him against his dad when he was a child too. Concerned that his own kids will think of him the same way as Frank, Ray contemplates how to get the kids back on his side.

Explorations (30 minutes) Billionaire Boys Toys

This episode meets the super rich and finds out about the incredible toys they buy themselves and the technology involved in their construction, when money really isn’t an issue.

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Go West Young Scoob

Everybody Loves Raymond (30 minutes) Security

Robert gets caught in the middle when Marie and Amy argue about whether he should retire from the police force. When Robert takes a second job selling home security systems, he reveals he’s been asked to join the security firm full-time and is mulling over retiring from the police force.

Explorations (30 minutes)

George Searches for a Needle in a Haight Stack

Wrestle Maniacs

Everybody Loves Raymond (30 minutes) Crazy Chin

Amy’s parents put Robert on the defensive when they point out his strange habit of touching food to his chin before he eats it. When Amy confides in Debra, who tells her that Robert’s strange behaviour could be psychological, she devises a plan to break him of his chin habit for good.

Future Tech

Explorations (30 minutes)

Future Tech brings to you the latest in cutting edge consumer electronics and technologies that have only been previously thought possible in sci-fi movies.

This episode shows how humankind has overcome the many obstacles of design and physical landscape, to bring the world some of the most beautiful and awe-inspiring structures on the planet.

Modern Wonders

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Inbound flights

MOVIES & SHORT PROGRAMMES

USA, Middle East, Asia, Europe to Addis Ababa April

May

MOVIES

June All ‘R’ rated movies have been edited for airline preview

Just Friends

The Ringer

An Unfinished Life

When Chris confessed his love for his best friend during their formative high school years ago, he was met with a broken heart and degrading humiliation. Only adding insult to injury was his larger than life frame, which became a source of ridicule for cruel classmates. But year’s later things have changed. Chris is now a hotshot record producer in Hollywood and the complete physical opposite of himself in high school.

He’s also got an up and coming act by the name of Samantha James who has a psychotic crush on him. With her in tow, Chris returns home with the hope of impressing his high school crush and making their relationship more than just friends.

Desperate for cash to help a friend in need and pay off his uncle’s gambling debts, Steve Barker sinks to an all time low … he attempts to fix the Special Olympics by pretending to be a person with intellectual disabilities. But he is completely outclassed by his fellow athletes, who are not only superior athletically they’re also wiser in the ways of the world.

Wyoming rancher, Einar Gilkyson, is living out his days on his rundown ranch. His only companion is his ranch hand and best friend Mitch who was attacked by a bear a year ago and needs a daily injection to keep the pain at bay. Einar is embittered by the death of his son some years ago and still blames his daughter-in-law for the accident. When she shows up uninvited with Griff, the granddaughter he never knew he had, Einar is forced to deal with his anger and bitterness, as well as a constant reminder of what he’s lost.

Cast: Ryan Reynolds, Amy Smart, Anna Faris, Chris Klein Director: Roger Kumble Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Knoxville, Geoffrey Arend, Edward Barbenell, Camille Chen Director: Barry W. Blaustein Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 94 mins Genre: Comedy

Cast: Robert Redford, Jennifer Lopez, Morgan Freeman, Becca Gardner Director: Lasse Hallström Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 107 mins Genre: Drama

MOVIES (Additionals on USA, Beijing, Bangkok, Guangzhou & Hong Kong to Addis route) Good Night & Good Luck

Yours, Mine and Ours

Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire

The film takes place during the early days of broadcast journalism in 1950s America. It chronicles the real-life conflict between television newsman Edward R. Murrow and Senator Joseph McCarthy. With a desire to report the facts and enlighten the public, Murrow and his dedicated staff defy corporate and sponsorship pressures to examine the lies and scaremongering tactics perpetrated by McCarthy during his communist ‘witch-hunts.’ Their tenacity eventually pays off when McCarthy is brought before the Senate and made powerless as his lies and bullying tactics are finally uncovered.

In this family comedy, single parents Frank and Helen tie the knot, but with 18 children between them trying to sabotage the marriage, they discover that marriages – and families – can’t be built in a day.

Difficult times lie ahead for Harry Potter as Dumbledore announces that Hogwarts will host the Triwizard Tournament, one of the most exciting and dangerous of the wizarding community’s magical competitions. As Harry and the other champions battle through their last task and the advancing tendrils of the ominous maze, someone or something is keeping a watchful eye. Victory is in sight, but as they edge closer to the Triwizard Cup, all is not as it seems and Harry soon finds himself hurtling head-first towards an inevitable encounter with true evil.

Joey (30 minutes)

Joey (30 minutes)

Joey (30 minutes)

Now that he’s a big celebrity on a hit TV show, Joey discovers that he can hire a personal assistant and begins the interviewing process. Michael is frustrated when his friend Seth decides to patent an idea by himself even though they created the concept together.

Since moving from New York City to Hollywood, Joey has found it difficult to meet new friends. Gina suggests that Joey and Michael host a party in their apartment and invite all of the residents from their building.

When a celebrity judge for a Las Vegas beauty pageant suddenly cancels, Joey is asked to replace him. Gina and Alex want to take a road trip with Joey, and the two women kidnap Michael from school and force him to join them as well.

Chasing Time (30 minutes)

Chasing Time (30 minutes)

Chasing Time (30 minutes)

Chasing Time is an exciting global travel series that challenges contestants to beat the clock or catch the next flight home.

Armed only with a mobile phone, a map, a phrase book, a camera and plenty of nerve, teams of contestants must complete a series of adventurous challenges in a foreign city.

Chasing Time is an exciting global travel series that challenges contestants to beat the clock or catch the next flight home.

Armed only with a mobile phone, a map, a phrase book, a camera and plenty of nerve, teams of contestants must complete a series of adventurous challenges in a foreign city.

Amsterdam

Hong Kong

Looney Tunes (30 minutes)

Looney Tunes (30 minutes)

Some of the top animation directors of all time helped create this collection of the looniest tunes ever made. Trace the careers of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, and howl at the antics of Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry.

Some of the top animation directors of all time helped create this collection of the looniest tunes ever made. Trace the careers of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, and howl at the antics of Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry.

Bugs Bonnet/Leghorn Swoggled/Cat Concerto/Daffy Duck Easter Egg

Beanstalk Bunny/Often an Orphan/Tee for Two/A Fractured Leghorn

Much Ado About Nutting/Designs for Leaving/Hare Grows in Manhattan/Hare-Um-Scared-Um

Cast: David Strathairn, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Patricia Clarkson Director: George Clooney Rating: PG Runtime: 93 mins Genre: Drama

Cast: Dennis Quaid, Renee Russo, Sean Faris, Danielle Panabaker Director: Raja Gosnell Rating: PG Runtime: 88 mins Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Robbie Coltrane Director: Mike Newell Rating: PG-13 Runtime: 139 mins Genre: Adventure/Fantasy

SHORT PROGRAMMES Joey & the Assistant

Some of the top animation directors of all time helped create this collection of the looniest tunes ever made. Trace the careers of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck, and howl at the antics of Bugs Bunny and Tom and Jerry.

Joey & the Party

Joey & the Road Trip

Chasing Time is an exciting global travel series that challenges contestants to beat the clock or catch the next flight home.

Armed only with a mobile phone, a map, a phrase book, a camera and plenty of nerve, teams of contestants must complete a series of adventurous challenges in a foreign city.

Stockholm

Looney Tunes (30 minutes)

Pilot Globe Guides (30 minutes) Ever wondered what exciting things are happening each month in far off corners of the world? When and where is the best time to go trekking, where to find the best beaches and an up to date event guide? Join Pilot Globe Guides on a month-by-month journey to see what’s going on around the world.

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ETHIOPIAN ENTERTAINMENT Audio channels on Ethiopian Airlines B757 aircraft are 60 minutes and may not include all the listed titles. We hope you enjoy the selection of music.

CHANNEL 5

CHANNEL 7

Selection Title

Artist

Selection Title

Artist

Water Ice A Dark Night Sanctum Part 2 Departing Consciousness Out Of Body Experience The Light Of Being Random Thoughts Heaven On Earth Through The Arbor Leaps Of Faith Floral Drift Long Ago Sublime Paradise Garden Of Peace Ocean Of Meditation Shoreline

Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists Various Artists

Big Man Smile Mister Sinister Pablo Dread In a Red

Antibalas Gregory Isaacs Kokolo Afrobeat Orchestra Augustus Pablo & Vivian “Yabby U” Jackson Angélique Kidjo Black Uhuru Manu Dibango Beres Hammond Angélique Kidjo & Henri Salvador Toots & The Maytals Hugh Masekela Wailing Souls Babatunde Olatunji & Charles Payne Barrington Levy Ismaël Lô Freddie McGregor Femi Kuti Burning Spear Bob Marley Max Romeo

CLOUDWATCHING (90:00)

CHANNEL 3

ETHIOPIAN INSTRUMENTALS (90:00) Selection Title

Artist

Begil Enena Anchi Yenigat Kokeb/Yelelit Berehane Yetizitaye Inat Alchalkum Anchi Hoye Lene Innate Nesh Etalem Seriw Beteshen Kehonelesh Melkam Some Day Bretukane/Shegito Ayne Hulgizze Bay Germish Dinget Salasebew Kurtun Negerign

Theodros Mitiku Tilaye Gebre Daniel W Gabriel Moges Habte Yared Tefera The Express Band Daniel W Gabriel Tigist Ejigu Tilahun w. Giorgis Elias Negash Tilaye Gebre Teodros Makonnen Anumut Kinde The Express Band

Beyonce

CHART CHECK (90:00)

CHANNEL 4 ALL THAT JAZZ! (90:00) Selection Title

Artist

Blueberry Hill Out’a Nowhere Go I Left My Heart In San Francisco Robo Bop Please Send Me Someone to Love Tunji Winelight Autumn in Washington Square Simply Said Can a Good Thing Last Forever?

Deep Into It Azalea Blue In Green Here’s That Rainy Day Through the Fire

Louis Armstrong Norman Brown Wayne Shorter Red Garland Fourplay Darrell Grant John Coltrane Quartet Grover Washington Jr Dave Brubeck Kenny Garrett Joshua Redman Larry Carlton Duke Ellington & Louis Armstrong Miles Davis Charlie Watts Kirk Whalum

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We We Endurance Echos Beti African People Le monde comme un bébé Bam Bam Excuse Me Baby Please!

Move On Takuta Under Mi Sensi Takou Deneu Get Involved Fight To Win Feat, Jaguar Wright Man In the Hills I Shot the Sherrif I Chase the Devil

Femi Kuti

CHANNEL 6

Joshua Redman

RHYTHM NATIONS (90:00)

Selection Title

Artist

The Denial Twist Check On It No Worries Temperature Break the Night With Colour Be Without You Goodbye My Lover Biology Talk Run It! Stickwitu When the Sun Goes Down Cash Machine Advertising Space Nasty Girl All Time Love JCB Ugly Because of You Heartbeats That’s My Goal Eddie’s Song Your Body I’ll Be Ready

The White Stripes Beyoncé & Slim Thug Simon Webbe Sean Paul Richard Ashcroft Mary J. Blige James Blunt Girls Aloud Coldplay Chris Brown The Pussycat Dolls Arctic Monkeys Hard-FI Robbie Williams The Notorious B.I.G. Will Young Nizlopi Sugababes Kelly Clarkson José Gonzàlez Shayne Ward Son of Dork Tom Novy Sunblock

CHANNEL 8

A WORLD OF MUSIC (90:00) Selection Title

Artist

S’paske pasë një pikë mëshirë Homeland Homeland Trec Tiganii (Gypsies Are Passing By) Maritsuki Pani Bahran Noon Chaliyan Para Mis Amigos San Miguel De Morropon The Little Bell Ramakien (Dance-Drama) (Tanzdrama) Aprovecha Lisboa Ao Amanhecer Jeg Lagde Meg Sa Silde (I Lay Down To Rest) Instrumental Piece For Gayda (Bagpipe) Darildim Darildim Farmors Polska Bayram Regsi Nr2016 Kalinitta (Serenata Grika) Adrachti

Ansambli i Tiranes Zhou You & Ensemble Taraful Din Baia Ayako Lister Asif Bhatti Rafa El Tachuela Tondero Vitaly Romanov Various Artists ¡Cubanismo!

Songs & Melodies From Portugal Lief Sorbye Raycho Zhekin anon Matit Ja Maijat Lök-Batan Folklore Group Andras Farkas & Budapest Ensem Arakne Mediterranea Athenians

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MUSIC

CHANNEL 9

Vivaldi

MUSIC FROM ETHIOPIA (60:00) Ethiopian Airlines is pleased to present for you a collection of Ethiopian traditional and contemporary music.

Selection Title

Artist

Yaned guzo ticket Tidar Sew yelegnim Gichamue Yedesta ken Kotuu bari Kisena borsash Ambassel Tey manesh Abet Wubet

Jonny Ragga Kuku Sebsibe Madingo Afework Mahmoud Ahmed Tigist Woyiso Taddalaa Gammachuu Jonny Ragga Kuku Sebsibe Andualem Lemma G/Hiwot Gigi

Kasabian

C H A N N E L 11 CONCERT HALL (90:00)

A collection of familiar Classical works brought to you inflight with the compliments of Ethiopian Airlines. From grand symphonies to lighter concoctions, this is a delight for the aficionado and beginner alike!

Kate Bush

CHANNEL 10

OLDIES BUT GOLDIES (90:00) Selection Title

Artist

Girls On Film The Model West End Girls Tainted Love I need you tonight Joyride Once In A Lifetime Rapture Young Guns (Go For It) Who’s That Girl?

Love Action Sir Duke Cloudbusting Word Up Everybody Wants To Rule The World House Of Fun Crazy Little Thing Called Love Sultans of Swing Rock the Casbah Addicted To Love Take On Me In The Air Tonight

Duran Duran Kraftwerk Pet Shop Boys Soft Cell Inxs Roxette Talking Heads Blondie Wham Eurythmics Human League Stevie Wonder Kate Bush Cameo Tears For Fears Madness Queen Dire Straights The Clash Robert Palmer Aha Phil Collins

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Selection Title

Artist

Gopak From Sorotchinsky Fair Air On The G string Un Bel Di (One Fine Day) Winter Largo From Serse Overture: The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Celeste Aida Tritsch-Tratsch Polka Prelude In E Minor Anitra’s Dance from Peer Gynt Suite No.1 Op.46 Fur Elise The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkure (The Valkyrie) Liebstraum No.3 (Dream Of Love) Waltz From The Sleeping Beauty Norwegian Dance No.2 Op.95 New World Symphony, 2nd Movement Spring (1st Movement, Allegro) Waltz Of The Flowers Clair de lune from Suite Bergamasque Eine Kleine Nachtmusik First Movement On The Beautiful Blue Danube

Modest Mussorgsky Johann Sebastian Bach Giacomo Puccini Antonio Vivaldi George Frideric Handel Felix Mendelssohn Giuseppe Verdi Johann Straus Ii Frédéric Chopin Edvard Grieg Ludwig van Beethoven Richard Wagner Franz Liszt Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Edvard Grieg Antonín Dvo_ák Antonio Vivaldi Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Claude Debussy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Johann Straus Ii

CHANNEL 12

ROCKIN’ AROUND THE WORLD (90:00) Selection Title

Artist

Sky Starts Falling Mr Brightside Unconditional Rebellion (Lies) Bullets Transition Graffiti Date with A Night Club Foot Do You Want To Fake Tales From San Francisco Jerk It Out Modern Way Banquet Unsatisfied Nobody Move, Nobody Get Hurt Cuts Across the Land Living for the Weekend Smile Like You Mean It Myxomatosis The Swamp Song Come As You Are This Charming Man The Passenger

Doves The Killers The Bravery Arcade Fire Editors The Longcut Maxïmo Park Yeah Yeah Yeahs Kasabian Franz Ferdinand Arctic Monkeys Caesars Kaiser Chiefs Bloc Party Nine Black Alps We Are Scientists The Duke Spirit Hard-Fi The Killers Radiohead Oasis Nirvana The Smiths Iggy Pop

Franz Ferdinand

Beethoven

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Friendship Centre

Kaldi’s Coffee at Adams Pavilion

Addis Ababa’s New Shopping Centres Addis Ababa – sometimes described as “Africa’s capital city” – is undoubtedly a city of contrasts. This populous and sprawling city hosts exotic, religious and historical landmarks including cathedrals, mosques, statues and monuments steeped in history. With no colonial impact on its architecture, Addis Ababa’s skyline has grown haphazardly as a result of initiatives taken by state and private developers with strong indigenous roots, says Allehone Mulugeta

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n recent times Addis has experienced a construction boom that has resulted in, among others, a line of new shopping centres gracing the city with up-market shops, cafés, restaurants, and offices. The city’s skyline is indeed changing. If one takes a ride to any node of the city, one cannot fail to see numerous new buildings appearing. New roads are being developed, too, and some of the old unplanned sprawl is being demolished to make way for a 21st century city. The result is that newer sub-cities are emerging within the fold of the older capital. It has been said that Addis Ababa does not have a city centre, but several city centres.

City centres have a life of their own. In Addis, they are redefining the city’s ubiquitous association with Africa’s biggest open market: Merkato.

With their numerous shopping outlets, they tell the story of the city’s increasingly complex identity. As much as they indicate the proud futuristic look of Addis, they project themselves as reminders of vibrant traditions and Ethiopian roots. During holidays, many of these shops’ floors are decorated with grass, and shoppers may even encounter an elaborate coffee ceremony taking place in traditional Ethiopian style.

The art galleries and gift shops are the artistic and indigenous heart beat of these commercial buildings.

Dembel and Friendship City Centers (note the American spelling!) are just two of the newer city landmarks, each offering shoppers practically everything under one roof. Both are located in the bustling Africa Venue that links Bole International Airport to the national palace, Commission of the African Union, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and practically to the centre of the city. Public transport is available to and from these shopping centres, which are both located in Bole subcity where a significant portion of Addis Ababa’s elite resides.

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Friendship City Center is close to Bole International Airport. In its vicinity are located a smart, modern gas station owned by a new local fuel distributor, National Oil Company; Alem Cinema Center owned

by Ethiopia’s renowned athlete, Haile Gebrselassie and the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s newest massive cathedral. Across the road is the new Hebir Ethiopia Cultural Restaurant, with spectacular floorshows. On the Friendship building’s wide terrace is a cool café where shoppers can sip an Italian coffee or a cool drink with a good view of the trendy side of the city. Friendship Supermarket in the basement provides groceries and other items, whilst upstairs shops selling silver vie for attention with others selling toys, clothes, shoes and a variety of attractions.

The huge Dembel City Center is closer to the ECA’s headquarters and is the city’s biggest single shopping centre. Its unique three-floor parking lot provides safe parking for hundreds of shoppers and visitors.

There are numerous stores, hair salons, massage spots, photo studios, a post office, several banks, cafés, a children’s playground, restaurants, a nightclub, travel agents etc. Dembel’s second level hosts numerous Ethiopian jewellery shops with a wide variety of collections. Addis’s coziest restaurant, Dembel Dome, is located at the 4th floor. Abesha Art Gallery has one of the best collections of Ethiopian postcards, handicrafts, paintings and traditional cloth. The city’s view from the many vantage points of this massive building can be arresting, and a night-time view of Addis, particularly from the Dome, is spectacular.

Shoppers are treated to Ethiopian music while strolling in the building’s walkways and the mall’s numerous elevators make it easy to get around.

There is a wide terrace next to the Dome where shoppers can treat themselves with coffee, soft drinks and wide collection of cakes from the Dome’s cafeteria. The fruitcakes are superb.

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Above: Some jewellery shops inside Dembel Center.

Adams Pavilion is located in Lafto Sub-city, less than ten minutes’ walk from the AU’s headquarters. It has shops, cafés, restaurants, and bookshops, game arcades, travel agents and massage spots. Ethiopia’s most trendy café, Kaldi’s has opened a branch on the ground floor, facing the car park, whilst next door is a good florists where one can buy Ethiopia’s hottest export item, roses. Book-lovers can visit Addis Library and Book World. There are clean public toilets on each floor.

Among the favourite spots are the glassware and wine shops.

These new shopping centres showcase Addis Ababa dwellers’ everchanging lifestyle. For so many of Addis’ young couples, these city centres are the places to go and are indicative of their new-found eating and shopping habits.

All provide the visitor with refreshingly Ethiopian items including Ethiopian dishes, antiques, leather items, jewellery, paintings and

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Above: A supermarket inside Friendship Center.

traditional cloth. Addis is famous for its traditional gold and silver jewellery, a reflection of the country’s unique cultural tapestry, with Orthodox Christian, Muslim and other pendants. Whilst the old Piazza district still offers the widest choice of jewellery and craft shops. One can now find a good collection of these products in the new shopping centres, at attractive prices. The shopkeepers have not forsaken that Ethiopian tradition of buying a client a coffee or a soft drink after a purchase is made. Leather products and Ethiopian traditional cloth are also popular shopping items for visitors and tourists, again at sensible prices.

For a visitor, these shopping centres provide a retreat from Addis’ friendly bustle. But they are not shields from the locals. Addis is a city for all. Wherever you go, you will always be surrounded by warm and friendly locals. Enjoy your shopping in Addis Ababa!

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DINING OUT ARABIC & MEDITERRANEAN Al Baraka

( 515 59 03 Bole Road, next to Bole Printing Press Known for: Hannid, Kebabs Al Baraka 7 days a week

Al Mendi

( 551 21 43 On the road between Olympia and Bambis, opposite Greek School Known for: Al Mendi meat 7 days a week

Serenade Restaurant

( 091-120 00 72 Near Master Printing Press Amist Kilo Known for: Fine home cooking, dinner only Closed: Mondays, Tuesdays, and Sundays

ARMENIAN Aladdin Restaurant

( 661 41 09 Off Bole Road, near the Japanese Embassy’s Residence Known for: Grilled meat, houmus, taboulleh 7 days a week

Ararat Club

( 111 35 72 Piazza, behind Nazareth School Known for: Sheshkebab and Mante Soup Closed: Sundays

ASIAN China Bar and Restaurant

Hamlet Steak House

( 465 40 24 Meskel Flower Street Known for: Steak 7 days a week

Jacaranda (Hilton)

( 551 84 00 Ext. 986 In the Garden Wing of the hotel Known for: unique menu that continuously changes Closed: Sundays

Kaffa House (Hilton)

( 551 84 00 Ext. 962 In the main lobby of the Hilton Known for: Seafood every Friday 7 days a week

Les Arcades (Sheraton Addis) ( 517 17 17 Ext. 6604 Known for: Gourmet menu Closed: Sundays

Rodeo Bar and Restaurant

( 551 02 94 On Bole Road, next to DStv. Known for: BBQ on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 7 days a week

Summerfields (Sheraton Addis) ( 517 17 17 Ext. 6089 Known for: Hamburgers, Buffet and Ice-Cream 7 days a week

The Cottage

Yod Abyssinia Culture

( 661 21 76 Next to Desalegn Hotel Known for: Ethiopian dishes, including Tej and raw meat 7 days a week

FRENCH

( 515 18 07 On Bole Road, next to Mega House Known for: Millefogli, Black Forest and Ice cream 7 days a week

Loti Restaurant

Enrico’s Pastry

( 091-167 52 40 Tebaber Berta Business Centre, 3rd floor on the Ethio-China Friendship Road (Wollo Sefer) Known for: Exquisite delicacies of Chef Gerard from France 7 days a week 6 pm - 11 pm

INDIAN Ajanta Restaurant

( 661 10 49 Near to Rwanda Embassy Opposite Bole Clinic Known for: South Indian, North Indian cuisine & Indian sweets 7 days a week

Jewel of India

( 551 31 54 Off Bole Road from Olympia, towards Meskel Flower Hotel Known for: Tandooris, Tikkas 7 days a week

Sangam’s

( 551 37 72 Next to Ghion Hotel Known for: One of the oldest restaurants in Addis 7 days a week

( 551 63 59 Next to 7th Day Adventist Church Known for: Fondue & Irish Coffee in bar 7 days a week

( 551 89 76 / 551 65 79 Next to City Café Known for: Tandoori Chicken and fresh Naans 7 days a week

Top View

( 662 73 40 / 50 Up the hill from Meganagna Roundabout, Asmara Road Known for: Pasta Closed: Mondays

Shaheen (Sheraton)

Rainbow Seoul

( 551 23 11 On Bole Road, next to Oromia Bureau Known for: Korean dishes 7 days a week

Shanghai

( 465 52 90 On Debre Zeit Road, next to Omedad Building Known for: Exceptional variety of Chinese dishes 7 days a week

CONTINENTAL/EUROPEAN Addis Ababa Golf Club

( 320 18 92 Old Airport in front of Swiss Embassy Known for: BBQ at weekends 7 days a week

Amsterdam Bar & Restaurant

( 661 34 93 Next to Bole Mini Known for: Roast Beef 7 days a week

Antica Restaurant

ETHIOPIAN Abasha Restaurant

( 551 83 58 Bole Road, next to Sabit Bld. Known for: Kwanta Ferfer and Bozena Shiro 7 days a week

Agelgil Restaurant

( 465 32 99/ 091-122 21 05 Inside Villa Verdi Known for: Agelgel (combination of different Ethiopian dishes) 7 days a week

Dashen Restaurant

( 552 97 46 Behind the main Post Office Known for: Melasse Tibs and live music on weekend nights 7 days a week

Enesra Traditional Bar & Restaurant

( 663 48 41 / 661 58 15 On Bole Road, next to Harar Mesob Restaurant Known for: Brick Oven Pizza and Hot Rock BBQ 7days a week

( 091-165 3611 On Mickey Leland Road, Opposite Nyala Insurance Known for: Special Tibs 7 days a week

Blue Tops

Fasika National Restaurant

( 155 09 34 / 155 99 73 Amist Kilo in front of the National Museum Known for: Pizza, ice cream Closed: Mondays

Breezes (Sheraton Addis) ( 517 17 17 Ext. 6998 / 6103 Known for: BBQ on Sundays 7 days a week

Family Restaurant

( 552 84 13 In front of Ibex Hotel Known for: Mexican Food and Warm Chocolate Cake with Ice cream 7 days a week

Gazebo (Hilton)

( 551 84 00 Ext. 953 Beside the pool Known for: Salads and Hamburgers 7 days a week

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( 550 99 12 / 551 41 93 Off Bole Road, in front of Sunshine Building Known for: Enfele and live music Closed: Mondays

Gursha Restaurant

( 663 25 45 Opposite Silver Bullet Known for: Bozena Shiro & Kitfo 7 days a week

Shangri La Restaurant & Bar

( 091-122 34 89 Mickey Leyland Road, adjacent to the European Commission Known for: Ethiopian dishes, including Tej and raw meat 7 days a week

CAFES / PASTRY SHOPS City Café & Pastry

( 517 17 17 Ext. 3633 Known for: Live cooking, delicate flavours and express lunch menu 7 days a week

( 157 14 90 Off Churchill Road, next to the Italian Library across from Mega Book Store Known for: Millefogli and Cream Puffs 7 days a week

Fantasy Cafe

On Bole Road Medhanialem Road near Atlas Hotel Known for: Cinamon danish 7 days a week

IL Penguino Gelateria

( 550 52 98 Off Bole Road at Olympia towards Haile Gebre Selassie Avenue Known for: Sundae Ice cream Closed: Wednesdays

Kaldi’s Cafe

( 663 84 55/663 84 56 In front of Bole Medhanialem Known for: Caramel Macchiato 7 days a week

La Parisienne

( 552 88 20 / 515 61 74 Off Bole Road, at Olympia Known for: Croissants & Breads 7 days a week

London Café

( 662 01 97 On Bole Road, next to Satellite Restaurant Known for: Melewah (Yemeni pastry) 7 days a week

Roby’s

ITALIAN

( 551 88 08 On Bole Road opposite Mega House Known for: Italian Pastry and Fruit Cake 7 days a week

Arcobaleno

Saay Pastry

( 371 32 57 In Mekanisa, in front of Midroc Head Office Known for: Antipasto, Nile Perch and Gorgonzola Cheese Sauce 7 days a week

Castelli

( 157 17 57/156 35 80 Off Piazza Arada Road, in front of Mohmoud Music Shop Known for: Pastas, Grilled Fish, Chicken and Salads Closed: Sundays

Don Vito

( 465 38 09 / 465 53 89 On Debre Zeit Road, before Concorde Hotel Known for: Fresh Pasta & Pizza Closed: Tuesdays

IL Caminetto

( 662 55 87 Off Bole Road, the street in front of Brass Clinic Known for: Pastas & Ravioli Closed: Sundays

Pizzeria (Hilton)

( 618 80 00 On Bole Road, next to Fantu Known for: Croissants 7 days a week

Temptations (Sheraton)

( 517 17 17 Ext. 3633 Known for: A wide selection of breads 7 days a week

Tomoca

( 111 24 98 Off Churchill Road, on the same road as BookWorld Known for: Many varieties of coffee 7 days a week

Village Café

In front of Estifanos Church, corner of Meskel Square Known for: Mini-pizzas 7 days a week

LATE NIGHT Déjà vu

( 091-120 85 49 at Wolo Sefir, inside Berta Building, 2nd floor Known for: the World of Cocktail Drinks 7 days a week

The Mask Pub

( 551 84 00 Ext. 962 Through the Kaffa House Known for: Antipasto and Pizzas 7 days a week

( 663 11 02 Bole Road behind Palestinian Embassy Known for: Snacks, Decor 7 days a week

Pizzeria Italia

Memo Club

( 515 65 53 Off Bole Road Known for: Pizza 7 days a week

( 551 98 87 Off Bole Road, behind Exhibition Centre Known for: Bozena Shiro and Grill, Dancing 7 days a week

Stagioni (Sheraton Addis)

Savanna Safari Pub & Grill

( 517 17 17 Ext. 6097 Known for: Regional menus 7 days a week

( 091-121 06 10 Bole Road, close to airport Known for: Snacks and Dancing, Jazz on Wednesdays 7 days a week

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