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Friday’s Featured Food: Ethiopian Vegetarian Combination in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

When I arrived in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia for the first time this month, I had no idea what to expect from the food there but I was willing to try as much local food as I could. I started off in the capital city and I tried what is known as a Vegetarian Combination, Read more about Friday’s Featured Food: Ethiopian Vegetarian Combination in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia[…]

Backpacking In Ethiopia🇪🇹: Hyena🐆Feeding in Harar

“My smile as real as a hyena’s; burns an expressway to my skull” – Nicky Wire. I’ve been busting to get this particular post written up and posted so here it is. It was only last week that I made the trip to Harar in Eastern Ethiopia with the intention of Hyena Feeding!! Yes here Read more about Backpacking In Ethiopia🇪🇹: Hyena🐆Feeding in Harar[…]

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Inside Rabatt: Visiting a Maasai Village in Tanzania

If you’ve been to Tanzania or Kenya on your travels, you’ll be aware of the Maasai Tribe. The Maasai are a tribe of people who live in the wilderness parts of Tanzania and Kenya (and also in the cities) and a lot of them live in mud and straw huts in the countryside. While on Read more about Inside Rabatt: Visiting a Maasai Village in Tanzania[…]

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Getting An Ethiopian Visa at Addis Ababa Airport, Ethiopia

The joys of travel continue for me and I’m fascinated by the decoration of passports to the point where I almost prefer to have a full page visa on there than a measly stamp. Just because like a kid I still get excited every time I enter a new country! From the 73 countries I’ve Read more about Getting An Ethiopian Visa at Addis Ababa Airport, Ethiopia[…]

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Backpacking in South Africa: Top 6 Things to see and do in Durban

My recent Africa trip had me reminiscing big time and the reality hit me that I haven’t written enough about my first trip to Africa in 2011. So much so that my visits to both Pretoria and Durban have passed the blog by completely and I’m behind with my travel tales. Before time gets the Read more about Backpacking in South Africa: Top 6 Things to see and do in Durban[…]

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Getting a Tanzanian Visa at Kilimanjaro Airport

Being based in Hong Kong recently has been great for sorting out visas (I have got a Vietnamese, Myanmar, Chinese and North Korean all sorted in my time there). However I didn’t get my visa in advance for Tanzania, one of my recent trips. The main reason was time constraints, but also it’s the same Read more about Getting a Tanzanian Visa at Kilimanjaro Airport[…]

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Back in Africa: Hong Kong to Addis Ababa to Kilimanjaro

If you read Don’t Stop Living in its early days, I used to just write about exactly what I was doing, and in some kind of logical order with no frills. And despite my more recent posts on tips, advice and visa issues etc., it’s time for a return to the “old school Don’t Stop Read more about Back in Africa: Hong Kong to Addis Ababa to Kilimanjaro[…]

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Off to Africa! The Biggest Break from Don’t Stop Living in Ages!

Hi one and all, as you may have known or noticed, I’m posting new stuff almost every day and have been since about October 2012. It’;s been pretty full on and I’ve loved taking my travel blog one step further than it was in its first five years or so. I’ve been working my ass Read more about Off to Africa! The Biggest Break from Don’t Stop Living in Ages![…]