# Tell me what you know about Ethiopia

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-you-know-about-ethiopia/752811>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 21, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-you-know-about-ethiopia/752811 "2016-04-21T13:49:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2016, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-what-you-know-about-ethiopia/752811/1 "2016-04-21T13:49:24Z")

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I’ll be in Ethiopia for three weeks in Aug-Sept. I haven’t been to Africa in decades, and Ethiopia is very different, culturally and historically, from “Africa”, so what should I expect?

I have age (77) and disability (blind) issues, so leave out anything that requires ambitious activity and “sightseeing”. I don’t want to be stuck in Addis, so open to any suggestions about locations outside the capital, where I can just hang out and rub shoulders with the Ethiopian experience. I’m not penny-pinching, but want to stay on the low end of the budget.