Category: Biking 2016 – Ethiopia

– by Fred Schlomka – Day 4 & 5 • 30th & 31st JanuaryAddis Ababa, Alem Tena – ZiwayTotal biked – 96km Quite a day for the first bike ride in Africa. I was driven by Sheme out of Addis Ababa to Debre Zeit, also known as Bishoftu. Apparently the name was changed after the […]

– by Fred Schlomka –  – Day 2 & 3 • 28th & 29th JanuaryAddis Ababa, Ethiopia I go for dinner with a group of Rastas from Europe and Australia who are here for the Rastafarian Tour. Ethiopia is the spiritual homeland of the Rasta religion and my colleague Jos has been developing pilgrimage tours […]

– by Fred Schlomka –Day 1 & 227th & 28th JanuaryTel Aviv – Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Up early and off to the airport. Sunita was a sweetheart and drove me at 5.30am. The packing had been a bit frantic the day before but I managed to do a partial dismantle of the bike and cut […]