I got my bags back on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 544. Today the Amateur Traveler talks about

waterfalls and the Queen of Sheba, churches carved out of a single rock,

Camel Caravans carrying salt, and a lake of lava as we go to Ethiopia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. If you were

sponsoring this episode we'd be talking about you but instead let's talk now

about Ethiopia. I'd like to welcome the show Anwar from Beyond My Front Door.com

who's come to talk to us about Ethiopia. Anwar, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Chris. It's great to be here.

You are not in Ethiopia right now, but in Ghaziantep Turkey, which is amazing because we

actually had a exchange student from that rather unknown city in Turkey, but you were recently

in Ethiopia.

Yeah, I was just there at the end of October, beginning of November 2016 this year.

So really recently, for about two and a half weeks.

And let's not assume that everybody knows where Ethiopia is in the map.

So you want to put it on a map for us?

Sure, it's in northeastern Africa, on the Horn of Africa.

It kind of borders Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan, and Kenya.

Southeast of Sudan and west of Somalia and Eritrea.

And also near just across the water from Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

So we've just listed a lot of countries that people are not interested in going to. Why should they go to Ethiopia?

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