Travel to Eritrea

Lonely Planet Ethiopia & Eritrea (Lonely Planet Ethiopia and Eritrea)

Format: Paperback
Author: Matt Phillips
ReleaseDate: November, 2006
Publisher: Lonely Planet Publications
Rating:

Lonely Planet Ethiopia and Eritrea
12. I travelled hree weeks in Ethiopia from 27. 2006-12. 1. 2007 time. I visited Addis Ababa, Wollea, Debre Zeit, Dire Dawa, Lake Langano, Awasa and Harar. I used this book as a base for my travel plan and it never failed me. I read the book allways forehand at night before we entered a next place. It saved my son for a trouble becaus of framed Addis Abeba hustler information. He went to one of those ethnic conert the book was warning about and everything hapened exactly as told in the guide book. I got him out of that concert immediately and he saved 1000 bir.

Hotel information was very accurate, except the prices had come up 10 %.

Now I am back in Finland and I am very thankful for the writers. The arranged me a safe trip to one of the worlds poorest and most dangerous countries.

rgards

heikki turunen.

most disappointing LP so far
The accomodation references are poor (better ask a cab driver), so are the historical descriptions. travelled through Ethiopia with this guidebook and was very disappointed. Also (but this is an LP thing) it's good for people who like to be told by the authors what you are supposed to see, if you like other things you have to ignore the author's comments at all costs.

Excellent on Eritrea as well as Ethiopia
The walking tours of Asmara are a particularly useful and enjoyable introduction to a beautiful and eminently walkable city. "Smallchief" mentioned that he had used this book in only in Ethiopia; I can attest that the Eritrea section is excellent as well. Some of the information is out of date - a number of the establishments mentioned in the book are now closed, presumably due to the Eritrean economy's difficult straights. Let's hope that Ethiopia and Eritrea can overcome their joint and singular difficulties.
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