Nazrēt
Adama, formerly Nazreth, is one of the cities of Oromia Region of Ethiopia.
Adama, formerly Nazreth, is one of the cities of Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Located in the East Shewa Zone 99 km (62 mi) southeast of the capital, Addis Ababa, the city sits between the base of an escarpment to the west, and the Great Rift Valley to the east.
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Worth seeing in and around Nazrēt
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Adama Science and Technology University
Adama Science and Technology University is a public university first established in 1993 as Nazareth Technical College and one of the two Science And Technology Universities of Ethiopia. It is located in Adama, a city in the Oromia Region, Ethiopia.
3.6 km · university in Ethiopia · Wikipedia - 02Adama Stadium
Adama, formerly Nazreth, is one of the cities of Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Located in the East Shewa Zone 99 km southeast of the capital, Addis Ababa, the city sits between the base of an escarpment to the west, and the Great Rift Valley to the east.
1 km · multi-use stadium in Adama, Ethiopia · Wikipedia
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Things to do
Climb the beautiful surrounding mountains including Kechema.
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Where to eat
The famous "tibs", or "kurt", raw or roasted beef in the city's famous restaurants specialized in serving roasted beef dishes. Small restaurants on the main street are inexpensive (with most expensive meat dishes around 100-120 birr), but often there's neither English menu, nor someone speaking enough English to help a foreigner.
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Getting to Nazrēt
- Airports
- Addis Ababa Bole (ADD), 71 km · Hawassa (AWA), 187 km
- Addis Ababa → Nazrēt78 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · Br305–405
- Hawassa → Nazrēt188 km · quickest by road, 3h 20m · Br720–960
- Dire Dawa → Nazrēt308 km · quickest by road, 7h 4m · Br1,170–1,560
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No local-transport research exists yet for Nazrēt
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Nazrēt. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf coming from Addis Ababa, it's probably better to ask the best way to go to Adama at the place where you stay, as the buses no longer depart from Le Gare in downtown (like some older guidebooks say), and the main southern/eastern terminal is inconveniently located in Kality suburb 10 km from the downtown (and still far from the southernmost LRT station of the same name) - more than half an hour and 15 birr (2019) by very crowded minivan from the city center, but "probably at least 300-350 birr" by taxi.
- Get inGenerally the driver waits for the entire bus to fill with passengers, though usually this means that buses leave at least once an hour (less in case of a minibus).
- Get inMake sure the bus/minibus you're going to take is "Express" - which means it goes non-stop via the (nice) toll road connecting Addis Ababa and Adama.
- Get inOn arrival to Adama, the minibus will likely stop a few times on the main road offloading some of the passengers, before turning to the right at the town center - choose the stop nearest to the place/area where you intend to stay, as the bus terminal is a few kilometers away from the center.
- Get aroundA horse-drawn cart, or gari, is even cheaper than a public taxi, though by 2010 these had been largely supplanted by auto-rickshaws (called "Bajaj," after their manufacturer).
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