Now, if you are ever considering should you spend $10 for 2 days on the bus from Lalibela to Addis Ababa or should you spend the $120 for the flight, I'll make it simple for you - fly!!! Why are you even considering two days on the bus. Unfortunately for us, no one shared this wisdom and after much debate we decided to do the bus trip. Why???? Why????? Why????? It was two days of pure hell. The road was as windy as a pile of cooked spaghetti and a bumpy dirt track to boot. What made this worse was that Ethiopians have weak stomachs and every other person on the bus was throwing up. The plastic bags were going up and down the aisle at lightening speed. This is before you consider that being Ethiopia there is about 5cm of leg room so your knees are decapitated and they fit 5 people across each row (with people in the aisle as well, despite the fact this is illegal).
Day one of this was hellish, but it's even worse when after a nights sleep in a flea infested hotel (for $4) you have to force yourself to get up at 4am, queue with two hundred people for the gates to the bus station to open, push past women and children to avoid being trampled in the rush to your bus only to do it all again. I never thought I would be so grateful to see an African city in my life, but Addis looked beautiful!!
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