Intense First Day In Addis Ababa Ethiopia!!

Intense First Day In Addis Ababa Ethiopia!!

my Amharic goes No goes Gobez No Yeah Go Arif 
No Okay She says it’s good Pick No No I swear I swear bro M Miguel you’re going to make me upset 
bro Please Because you know when you make the commitment you want to help your country You want 
to help your family You want to help your people You know you don’t get the access so many times If 
you don’t have the access then how can you do it salam no Good morning Very early morning here 
in Addis Ababa Ethiopia Just landed after a long trip from Asia Southeast Asia all the way out here to 
Bole International Airport Guys I’m back Back again Actually every video I drop for the last 
two years people have been asking me “Myer when are you coming back to Addis Ababa when are you 
coming back to Ethiopia?” Huh no brother Thank you The best You have the best rate What’s your 
rate 132 I think I can get a better rate outside bro Uh it’s a black Ah why don’t you exchange no 
problem I check with my friend If it’s no good then I come back to you Okay Thank you brother 
So yeah guys Um it’s been a long time since I’ve been back in Ethiopia And actually just from the 
looks of it I can see that they’ve updated this airport quite a bit since the last time I was 
here But yeah it’s about 5:00 in the morning I just landed I’m very tired as you can see 
from my eyes I didn’t get much sleep And uh I’m going to head over to my hotel 
which I will show you guys But as usual this customs line is super long I’m going 
to see if I can fight my way through here Look at that sun rising guys The beautiful crisp 
air here in Ethiopia Such a pleasure to be back here It’s been like I said 2 years since I came 
back here And I haven’t felt this air The air here is a very special special feeling I’m telling you 
Ethiopia Addis Ababa specifically is a very high city in altitude It’s one of the highest cities in the 
world above sea level So when you when you come here you really feel the crispness and clarity 
of the air Also you run out of breath quickly too That’s why this country produces some of the 
best long-distance runners because just walking here you will get winded So beautiful The weather 
is so nice Like I said I’m coming from Southeast Asia where it’s humid and hot So it’s just uh such 
a pleasure to be back So I’m waiting for my friend Iskinder my driver but more like honestly my 
brother My friend at this point So I’m going to go meet him right now Got to walk down this 
way Man look at that beautiful sky See brother I’m already have brother Thank you This is the 
area for the taxis I’m waiting for my brother Eskinder should be here God this airport is a 
lot bigger than I remember Yes boss Eskinder Sal I didn’t even recognize you Yeah that’s that’s how I came here Oh my god you lost so 
much weight guys This is my brother Guys we are driving through downtown 
Bole Addis and I don’t even recognize it I can recognize the streets but the the lights 
the buildings everything the just looks Yeah Before we Before we Yeah Yeah I want to just 
take a quick drive through It’s early morning guys I’m going to go back to the hotel I need 
to rest But look at this man When I first moved here 7 years ago 8 years ago I used to live 
in Addis Ababa This road was nothing like this It was still unpaved They didn’t have these 
lights didn’t have these lines I mean this looks like a road in Dubai now It’s amazing 
This looks like a road in Dubai Amazing man Thank you for coming man Look it’s 5:00 in the 
morning but I woke his kinder up to come pick me up And he he didn’t even hesitate 
He said “Okay I’m coming.” That’s why he’s my brother man I don’t trust anybody 
else at this time you know it’s too early See you uh when you arrive uh in the afternoon 
Yeah afternoon I call you All right guys So I’m staying here at the Moonlight Hotel This welcome 
my brother Thank you brother Thank you Thank you I still have my uh hay So we are in the Haya Hulet 
area here in the Moonlight Hotel Salam no and I have booking Airbnb You know so yeah guys I’m going to show you what 
the room looks like and tell you how much I paid and then I need to rest I’m tired Very 
tired Betam long flight This is what the room looks like right here in the Moonlight Hotel 
Now one thing in Addis Ababa the lighting in a lot of these hotels is never great you know but 
we got some daylight cuz the sun is starting to come out here in the beautiful city of 
Addis Ababa I have a nice balcony too Very nice balcony Look at this Can see the city from 
here So nice to be back here guys Amazing But yeah I paid uh I think I paid about $20 
a night for this $20 a night is what you get here Now there are more expensive hotels but 
this is a little bit more on the budget side you know Bathroom is decent Toilet’s on a 
little angle there as you can see you know so you can fit Got a nice standup shower with 
the hot water tank Is it on that’s the question Hopefully it’s on I think so But yeah got a little 
seating area little bed So comfy guys I need to rest I haven’t slept I’ve literally been traveling 
for 15 hours Ah I miss this sound The smells of burning garbage and the food breakfast being 
cooked and the sound of the churches the priests Ah this is Adis Look at this man They were kind 
enough to bring me a nice little fresh breakfast before I hit the bed cuz I haven’t eaten to be 
honest I’ve just been traveling So and they got me a nice fresh papaya juice The fresh juice here 
in Ethiopia is so good cuz the fruit is so yummy And I’m not a big fan of papaya but that’s 
really good All right guys After a nice little rest I am back out in the streets of 
Addis Ababa It’s been a long time guys I’ve been vlogging all throughout the world but 
I haven’t salam but I haven’t vlogged uh here I’ve been vlogging 
throughout Asia for a long time I haven’t vlogged in Africa in Ethiopia in a long 
time It’s been like I said almost over 2 years And uh first things first I got to go get some buna (coffee) I need some buna I think right here they 
have some traditional buna ceremony Oh right here Salam And al I make 
video Okay Okay All right So the lady here fresh Fresh No No Okay 
So I’m going to sit down here and have myself some fresh buna So first 
they put it in the pot Muna Uh in here I think they put the coffee in 
here Then they put it over the charcoal and then she waves it with her 
hand to get the charcoal nice and hot and then inside the coffee will start to boil 
This is is a jib jaba No Jabena Yeah So this this traditional pot is actually called jaba Jabna 
is like the pot that they’ve used in Ethiopia for hundreds and hundreds of years Ethiopia is 
actually the birthplace of coffee Uh there was a region known as Kafa where there was a goat 
herder whose goat used to go out with him and he would eat the coffee beans off of a tree And 
as he would eat the coffee beans the goats would eat the coffee beans he would notice they would 
get a lot of energy and he started to wonder like why why do these goats get so much energy 
after they eat these so he started eating them and he would get energy and basically after 
that they started roasting them and brewing them and you know centuries later we’re here 
on the side of the road getting some fresh buna Merat very nice her 
name is Merat you adaba very And so also the other thing that’s part of 
the traditional bunna ceremony is they light this incense This incense gives a nice 
smell So basically it kind of sets the mood So once when you smell this smell you 
know that there’s buna close by being made Uh and center minute 5 minutes Uh uh zare uh 
center jenna sale and sauce Uh 40 40 arba arba Wow Mashallah Much money Mizook Mizuk So she 
said she sells 40 normally 40 of them in a day 40 of these So I think this probably makes 
about maybe uh centa cup anjaba 10 30 30 30 cups So each jaba has about 30 cups inside 
of it So she sells about 40 of them a day So 40 * 30 would be 1,200 cups of coffee which 
shows you how much coffee the Ethiopian people drink So they use these little cups This is like 
a traditional buna cup Bunda just means coffee in Ethiopian the birthplace So my Amharic I still 
speak a little bit but I forgot a lot I used to be very good at speaking when I lived here 
but now uh after some time I I lost my skills I’m trying to practice talking to people but 
uh sometimes I feel a bit embarrassed because like I said you know uh it’s been a long 
time But Merat been so nice She’s so nice My Amharic goes no Gopz No Yeah Arif No 
Okay She says it’s good Arif Okay And now she will put the coal on the incense to 
give the give a nice smell in the whole area This is part of the ceremony You’ll 
see the smoke rising And basically what you’re supposed to do is kind of waft the 
smoke to your nose and smell it because it’s a very nice smell Uh there you go 
That’s the That’s the smell right there Such a nice smell That that smell 
literally makes me like I’m like “Okay now I’m in now I’m in Ethiopia 
Look at how dark that roast is Okay Very good No I feel you want Okay sit down Sit down I buy you one Bekele Bekele my name Myer my friend 
Bekele joining me for a coffee In Ethiopia it’s like a very tradition you know 
If someone wants to have coffee you let them join you You buy them a coffee you 
know Very nice A uh sukar al one one shukar Oo ho Ethiopia coffee number one very good very good very good coffee of course of course youjo also of course the guy’s 
like of course she’s also beautiful yes yes and And uh and cup no one Yeah One 30 salasa 
beer Salasa So one cup for 30 beer I’m going to give her a tip though because 
she was so nice Show enjoy Okay Tell I come tomorrow She was so nice I told her 
I’ll be back cuz this is actually right by my hotel So I’ll be back tomorrow So but 
actually I was talking to her and she told me like and I know this obviously I used to 
live here I know that this area is probably not the best area to just be walking around 
solo dooo But hey you know how we do it here on Myer Travels One thing about Ethiopia is 
vlogging here is totally different Salamo and hello YouTube Noam Okay Okay Yellow Yellow Yellow Yellow Okay brother Salam 
Salam No Salam How are you bro fine Good Good Yeah Are you Muslim yeah I’m Muslim Assalamu 
aalaykum my brother How are you doing where you you from adis Adis Yeah Ad This is my I used 
to live in Addis Ababa before Yeah Where are you uh I’m now I’m from America America But originally my 
family is Pakistani Pakistan Yeah So I used to live in Kazanchis But I’m a YouTuber So I walk 
I make videos about different countries Yeah What do you want to say to the YouTube people 
they’re watching you know They want to know how should they come to Addis Ababa yes Good This 
country is good Very nice The people is nice The food is nice The bua is nice Everything nice 
Okay brotheralam allaykum Thank you All right guys So I think I’m in the I think I’m in the Salam 
No I think I’m in the uh now I’m in the Haya Hulet area So this is where a lot of business 
goes down Got some wine shops here Salamo Just going to take you guys for a little walk Hi how 
are you how are you brother i’m fine I’m just making a video about the beautiful Ethiopia 
Yes Thank you very much Thank you brother And uh you know people here don’t like to 
be on camera Like they’re very weary of the camera It’s one of the few countries that I’ve 
been to where people will really really salam uh where people will really really get 
weird about the camera They’ll be like what are you what are you doing like I 
don’t know if it’s from their history We’re going to talk to some locals some 
of my friends and we’ll find out why why that is because I’m very curious I never 
I never knew Al Uh Makina I know Makina No Makina I think Makina is Makina Yeah Good 
You good it’s a good Makina Strong Makina So they’re washing the car 
Machina actually means car in uh in Ethiopian in Amharic It actually comes 
from the Italian word machina Um it’s the same Look at this Just a random tree stump in 
the middle of the road You can just sit down And then they’re selling some beautiful 
fruits here I want to get some mauz (banana) Uh moose moose 1 kilo Uh 
1 kilo Half kilo Half kilo 35 Okay An kilo 70 70 Okay 
An kilo B kilo I don’t know We’re getting some banana Yeah For the kids 
For the kids I’m going to get some banana for the kids Half kilo Half kilo for the kids Half 
kilo Half kilo for them Yeah I’ll take half Huh i was going to buy half No no no no no no I got 
it I got it You’re also going to buy i was going to buy it No let me buy it Let me buy it bro 
Sorry Sorry bro I’m a guest here I got to I got to help the people out when I can I saw what 
I’m crying It was a must for Yeah man That’s the thing I don’t I can’t say no when I see that you 
know At least at least the least we can do you know when they have something What’s your name 
bro Mikail Mikail I’m Myer Nice to meet you My channel is Myer Travels on YouTube I travel to 
different countries making YouTube videos you know I always wanted to be part of Oh nice nice nice 
We got Michael Uh for everybody for everybody for all the kids They’re together They’re together 
They’re together Oh you want Hello Hello Hello Yeah So uh where you from Adis i’m from here Yeah 
man I used I used to live in I used to live in Adis before you came back Now I came back just uh 
I used I’ve vlogged here like few times Huh what did they say they won They also won mango also 
Okay No problem Here Here Take this Take this Take this Take this No No I swear I swear bro M 
Mikuel you’re going to make me upset bro Please Because you know when you make the commitment 
then Allah is watching you know So I can watermelon seed Huh you have change small Okay Okay No problem Okay Okay Okay Thank you Thank you 
Thank you I help you because you help me you know Sorry At least I got some watermelon 
out of this situation You know I like to support the people who are actually 
selling things you know My brother over here selling some miswak Miswak 
Yeah One miswak sent This one sent me brothers 250 250 let me amsa for 
one miswak one one and and piece 50 I’m okay this right here 
is misswak different hiwak okay this okay I can use az Okay I’m going to get one for for myself YouTube So guys look at this This phone is made in 
Ethiopia Made in Ethiopia Yeah Look at this This is a made in Ethiopia phone Literally the size of 
my palm How much is a phone like this almost 3,000 3,000 B Oh that’s not too bad Very good That’s 
very good Yeah man This is old school stuff right here Yeah What is this like a Nokia Yeah Thank 
you So guys I’m sitting down with a brother here from from Adisaba From Ethiopia What’s your name 
gond From Gond What’s your name yonathan Yonathan We’re having a very good conversation off camera 
which is something you have to do also A lot of people just want to do things for content but also 
I want you I want to show you guys the reality of Ethiopia as well So brother you were telling 
me what what are you so he’s an educated man We’re sitting here but you might think “Oh we’re 
just sitting on the corner but this guy has been he’s more educated than most of the people who 
are watching this video.” So what what are you educated in anastasia I’m I graduated Anastasia 
from Black Leon University Adisava University Black Leon So you studied medicine medicine of 
Anastasia So how long did your medical degree take 5 years Four years But uh there’s a gap 
in one year with the corona thing internship uh covid thing Oh the co yeah the co incident it 
makes it 5 years So you’re a doctor then uh not a doctor but doctor of anesthesia basically Dr 
Yonathan Yeah We we have to respect Dr Yonathan Thank you Thank you So as a as a somebody who 
practice anesthesiology do you practice in the hospital now here no Why not you know you don’t 
have the access in Ethiopia What is the problem tell the tell the people because I’m sure they’re 
curious You know there’s there’s the conflict You don’t want you don’t want to move from the 
country to the countryside because there’s a conflict in Ethiopia nowadays There’s been some 
disagreement between the people of something like like internal internal internal conflict So that 
makes difficult for you to for a young generation Yeah For the young generation Do you think many 
young people in Ethiopia have this problem many young people How old are you if you don’t mind me 
asking 26 26 You look 21 You guys have good jeans I think if you shave your beard you will look 
young Yeah I graduated in when I was 26 I got my anesthesia degree Okay I have been sitting 
in for three years without a job But without a job Yeah You know I forgot I was playing football 
you know alongside my also a good football player Yeah a good football But you know I respect 
you because a lot of people in your position who have your education they will want to leave 
Ethiopia too fast but you want to stay in your country You want to try to help your country 
but it’s difficult But it’s not almost trying to help my country but you know there’s some kind 
of problem You maybe you may not get the payment Maybe you you may not get the payance to leave 
Ethiopia to live But as a young person who was a brilliant mind you want to sit here in Adis as 
an educated person You want to help your country you want to help your family you want to help 
your people you know of course you don’t get the access so many times If you don’t have the access 
then how can you do it there are a lot of doctors I know without a job You know there are a lot 
of anesthesiologists without I have a question If you had the opportunity if I said “Jonathan 
I can send you to Europe tomorrow.” Would you leave yeah absolutely Because you need to make 
money right yeah It’s my age How much does your position in Ethiopia how much can they make per 
month per year what is the average salary 9,000 9,000 B 9,000 B But there is a government tax 
which will make 9,000 B which in in US dollars it’s not even it’s uh almost $70 around $70 guys 
for an anesthesiology position man Brother I hope that things get better and I hope that you 
can stay in your country but if you have the opportunity I hope that you can go and work hard 
make some money for your family and then come back and bring your skills back to the home I hope that 
is there anything else that you want to tell the people about Ethiopia about Adis okay let me 
tell you about something about Ethiopia Yeah Oh I offered him Yeah You know so one thing in 
Ethiopia if you’re sitting down with brothers they’re going to always offer you some buna some 
local buna And and it’s raining now So we’re going to try to we’re going to try this The name of this 
restaurant which is owned in the new streets The new new streets New street Yeah You know this road 
is called new street This is the busy Yeah [Music] Peace out Peace out Who is the boss how you doing brother so Yonathan was saying something before it 
started raining What were you saying about about uh one thing about So sorry for disturbing the 
video but I just want to talk you to tell you something about Ethiopia Come visit Ethiopia Come 
visit the land of Jesus Come visit the land where coffee has been started which offering Thank you 
so much brother Come visit come to the land of love and the land of 13 months of sunshine Yeah 30 
months of sunshine It’s okay Sometimes sometimes enough sometimes rain but usually the weather 
is very nice You know what once you have been to Ethiopia I think you are not going to get 
out of this country You’re going to love the people You’re going to love the way we going to 
love everything It will always call you back You know I left but I always come back Yeah Everyone 
left At least everyone left out of youth you will come back You will come back I solidly come back 
Definitely So please everyone from Europe from your come to this welcome come visit the people 
of love the people of beauty the people of salah come visit Ethiopia may God bless our country may 
God bless our land may God bless our people peace to Ethiopian people but you know one thing I saw 
like you was asking me the positives of Ethiopia I it’s only been 3 And I think Ethiopia in the last 
3 years Ethiopia looks very different like Ble and those areas they build it very nice Beautiful So 
every time I come back something changes But yeah guys as Jonathan says you’re always welcome Come 
to Ethiopia come to Adi Sabava travel around and the people will treat you with love and respect 
and kindness and you just have to be kind It’s the land of smiles Peace Peace Thank you brother Thank 
you so much Thank you for your All right guys I made it back to my hotel in one piece Wild time 
though in this neighborhood of Haya As I mentioned it’s you know a lot of people were like “Just be 
careful Be careful.” But you know as I do I like to get entrenched with the people man And most 
people here in Ethiopia are good people as it is in any other country you know Finally I’m going to 
try my watermelon that I bought from the gentleman Oh so good Delicious Conjo as the Ethiopians 
would say So nice to be back here in Adis guys Beautiful first day You know I’m going to have a 
lot more videos coming from Adis so stay tuned And uh we’re going to explore as much as we can here 
you know try to show you guys the real real as I always do But um uh with that being said guys I’m 
going to wrap this video up Hope you guys enjoyed it Subscribe if you haven’t yet and remember 
continue to learn continue to grow and there is no growth until you leave your comfort zone 
I’ll see you guys on the next one Peace out

Intense First Day In Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In this Ethiopia travel vlog I arrive to Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. It is my first day back in Ethiopia and it was packed and intense.

Ethiopia is a country rich in African history, culture, and natural beauty. It’s located in the Horn of Africa and holds a unique position as one of the oldest nations in the world, often referred to as the cradle of humanity due to its archaeological significance. This diverse country boasts a landscape that ranges from towering mountains to vast plateaus and the Great Rift Valley, creating stunning vistas at every turn.

Come join me on this 6 part series of exploring and traveling through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and discovering the culture, people and food.

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