We
sat and chilled in the Hotel Ambarrass for the rest of the day and made
arrangements with our new found guide. His brother who was a registered guide
would take us out the next day to show us the sights and with the car, entrance
tickets and his fee this came to 1800 ETB (£20 each). I haggled from the
original quote of 2000 ETB. It is such a pain and exhausting to have to
negotiate over everything and you always feel you have been done over no matter
how successful your bartering has been!
Gonder
is a lovely place, with a bunch of castles built by different generations of
royalty and it was interesting to see how different they were in design to
other medieval castles we had seen, not only in England, but in Spain and
Portugal. I guess we are in Africa! and its influences are distinctly
un-European!
Here are some pictures for your viewing pleasure!
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| Gondar, Ethiopia |
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| Gondar, Ethiopia |
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| Gondar, Ethiopia |
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| Gondar, Ethiopia |
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| Gondar, Ethiopia |
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| Gondar, Ethiopia |
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| Gondar, Ethiopia |
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| Gondar, Ethiopia |
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