It was our last day in Ethiopia, and we woke up well rested and ready for breakfast! Except for some people, who woke up to the discovery of some new bed bug friends. These were soon forgotten however, as we headed out into the streets...
Sunday the 12th was partly a travel day when we went from Bahir Dar to Gondar, but we did have time to see some sights as well as experience possible the best – as well as a more questionable – food experience during the trip. [caption...
When in Bahir Dar, some of us were not in our best shape due to either the long bus ride, the new bacterial strain or maybe not using hand sanitizers enough. Some of us needed to rest for a while, if we put it that...
I wake up at 3 am on the bathroom floor. There are two plausible candidates why I have had to get my beauty sleep within arm’s reach of these facilities. One is tasty Sambosas on a street corner in the company of a group of...
On Thursday we woke up early to visit Seife’s, a coffee distributor run by the Swedish-Ethiopian Seife Tuuloskorpi. Seife’s is not only very passionate about coffee but it also has a conscious approach to coffee production and distribution and works closely with local farmers to...
We woke up to a fresh morning on the Wednesday in Addis. This forenoon, we were about to meet with the African Child Policy Forum (ACPF), a Panafrican advocacy organisation based in Ethiopia. We were warmly welcomed to fantastic premises. We all agreed that we wouldn't...
After starting off our Tuesday with breakfast, we went to the Red Terror Memorial Museum. It was a small but very important and moving place, as it explained the rise and acts by the communist regime between 1974 and 1991, and the killing and torture...
Second day of the trip, a day full of meetings! We had breakfast at our hotel and walk to the first one: the Swedish Embassy in Ethiopia. We were received with a traditional swedish fika by our hosts Helena and Alicia. During the meeting, they...
Welcome to the UF travel blog! The destination of this spring has been Ethiopia, a country in the horn of Africa that is currently undergoing a lot of political reforms and structural changes. On the fourth of May, 16 travelers set of to a long...
Would you like gain new perspectives by stepping out into the world? Two times a year, UF arranges visits to culturally and politically significant places in order to promote understanding of issues relating to foreign policy in an international context. Previous UF delegations have visited...