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Popular Transportation | Miscellaneous Transportation Tips | All Tips (18) The Bole international Airport has a national flights building too. It is a rather modern medium size airport.
Tourist visas are available at arrival. You must have a 20 USD NOTE ready for the visa payment. They don't accept another currency, but you can go to the nearest bank to change if you need to.
To go to the city centre you can take a blue taxi (about 40-50 birr, 4-5 USD) or take a minibus (about 15Birr, 1,5 USD). To take the minibuses, go out of the airport, avoid the taxi drivers and look for the samll blue vans. Ask the driver if they go to PIAZZA or MESKEL square, the 2 main destinations. If you are not really sure, take a taxi.
There are no minibuses in the national arrivals building, so if you come from an ethiopian city and want to take a minibus go first to the international arrivals building. Leave a Comment Theme: Airplane
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Just like in other places in Africa, the good ol' minibuses (all of them are blue) are here in Addis. It might be difficult to get to exactly where you want to go if you don't speak Ahmaric, but hey...give it a shot if you want. A guy will lean out the window and yell where the minibus is going to. So if you can understand him or just feel like being adventurous, go for it. The prices are 60 cents for standard rides and 1.20 birr for trips farther out. Leave a Comment Theme: Bus
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I ordered a hotel shuttle at the airport and was positively surprised by the road system. Traffic flows freely and organized. The roads are well maintained. Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor Home
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NTO (National Tour Operations) are a very reasonably priced car hire company for all vehicles from Sedans to 4x4 and busses. They have a desk at the airport and another office at the Hilton. On 4 Nov '05 I was quoted the following rate on a Mercedes with driver: US$68/day incl. 75km/day free thereafter US$0.60/km. Overtime starts at 16h00 and is charged at US$2.60/hour. Salomon is a very friendly guy, when I told him we'd be arriving the night before but only wanted the car from the next day, he offered free transport from the airport to the Sheraton (I thanked him for this but the Sheraton offers a free airport shuttle) Salomon can be called directly on his mobile +251 911 639 381. Tell him you got the number from here he should be nicely suprised.
If you're having trouble with the dialling code changes in Ethiopia goto this website where you can input the old number and it will generate the new number for you: http://www.nazret.com/converter/ Leave a Comment Theme: Car/Motor HomePhone: +251 11 155 1266
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