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| − | Hitchhiking in '''Ethiopia''' is a pretty hard. The country is extremely poor and hardly anyone has cars. | + | Hitchhiking in '''Ethiopia''' is a pretty hard. The country is extremely poor and hardly anyone has cars, hitching is not a known concept and usually only taxis will stop to pick you up. In rural areas you might hitch with NGO's or private's cars but payment will be expected. |
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| + | The border with Djibouti is at some point only accessible by hitching with truckers, where a payment of about 100Birr might be expected. Note that the border with Eritrea is closed! | ||
There are borders with [[Eritrea]], [[Djibouti]], [[Somalia]], [[Kenya]] and [[Sudan]]. | There are borders with [[Eritrea]], [[Djibouti]], [[Somalia]], [[Kenya]] and [[Sudan]]. | ||
Revision as of 16:53, 6 August 2008
Hitchhiking in Ethiopia is a pretty hard. The country is extremely poor and hardly anyone has cars, hitching is not a known concept and usually only taxis will stop to pick you up. In rural areas you might hitch with NGO's or private's cars but payment will be expected.
The border with Djibouti is at some point only accessible by hitching with truckers, where a payment of about 100Birr might be expected. Note that the border with Eritrea is closed!
There are borders with Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya and Sudan.
Links
- My time in Ethiopia, August 19, 2005 by Hologram
- Ethiopia at Wikitravel
- Ethiopia on digihitch
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This article is a stub. This means that the information available to us is obviously insufficient. In these places little information is available or the description is severely outdated. If you have been there, whether hitchhiking, for travel or as part of an organized tour − be sure to extend this article! |
