Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Entertainment
COMEDY
Balageru Cultural Club $
(admission free; mains Birr17-50, beers Birr20)
If you'd like an entertaining cultural ex-
perience and a good laugh, visit this place. Various
azmari
(see the boxed text,
Click here
) do their thing nightly (from around 7.30pm to 2am) to the rapturous joy of locals. If
you're brave enough to dance, you'll win lots of friends.
Information
Women, accompanied by male companions or not, should not walk along the waterfront
path behind the Ghion Hotel. There can be serious hassle from men hanging out here.
Don't walk anywhere in town after about 8pm.
Tourist hustlers can be a problem. Most 'know' the best place to stay or the 'cheapest'
boat operators: thankfully you know better.
Bahir Dar Tourist Information Center
( 0582-201686; 8.30am-12.30pm &
1.30-5.30pm Mon-Fri)
Although staff are keen to help, it offers little more than brochures
on the area.
Dashen Bank
Has branches with ATMs at both ends of the main street through town.
Gamby Teaching General Hospital
(
0918-143195;
24hr)
The town's best medic-
al facility.
Mamo Drug Store
(
0918-760909;
8am-9pm Mon-Sat, 11am-9pm Sun)
Memory Internet Café
(per hr Birr15;
8am-9pm)
One of several internet points with
broadband connections in this block.
Wegagen Bank
Has a branch along the main road.
Getting There & Away
Air
Ethiopian Airlines
( 0582-200020;
www.flyethiopian.com
)
has two (some days three)
daily flights to Addis Ababa (US$55, one hour) and a thrice-weekly flight to Lalibela
(US$41, 35 minutes).
