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Monday, November 12, 2018

ባህር ዳር, Bahir Dar Ethiopia

My visit at Bahir Dar was quite nice. Its mostly advice to travel by consenting any tour guide book, templates or even to browse and plan your days for the visit of your stay.  So went to the tourism office and collected the tourist sites in and around the city.

Bahir Dar (Amharic: ባሕር ዳር, Baḥər Dar, "sea shore") is the former capital of Gojjam province and the current capital of the Amhara Regional State. Administratively, Bahir Dar is a Special Zone. Bahir Dar is one of the leading tourist destinations in Ethiopia, with a variety of attractions in the nearby Lake Tana and Blue Nile river. The city is known for its wide avenues lined with palm trees and a variety of colorful flowers. In 2002 it was awarded the UNESCO Cities for Peace Prize for addressing the 
challenges of rapid urbanization.

Originally the settlement was called Bahir Giyorgis. In the 19th century, Bahir Dar was visited by Belgian, French, British and Italian travelers, who described it alternatively as a village or a town. The Italian traveller Mario Alamanni (1891) estimated its population between 1,200 and 1,600.

After I booked my hotel I started my visit by moving around the city, had my coffe at 'wede buna' then I went to Semaetat hawelt ' liberty monument' I had the chance to see the museum as well, then I head to His Majesty's Palace. From there you will see the epic view of Abay and Tana one over the other.I called it a day and went to my hotel. The next morning I went to Ethiopian Hotel and hired a boat to visit the islands. 







The city is quite clean and full indigenous trees across the streets. Later at night I went to a local bar and had an amazing time with the locals. They were having quite a time and they were willing for me to join them. So they were talking about life in general and just to describe them to you, One of the guy is Ginbegna, the other two are Anati' Carpenters, so the wife of the Carpenter called and he have bought meat for their dinner but couldn't join her earlier Because he is having his honey wine, so he answered his phone and begged  her to wait for him about 30 minutes. The way he was talking to her was humble enough nd he even stood from his sit. I really enjoined  their company.

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