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  Bahir Dar - Lake Tana and Abbaye = Blue Nile - Home
Bahir Dar is the gateway to the Blue Nile Falls and the Zeghe Peninsula.
Bahir Dar is a beautiful city with tree-lined avenues and set on the shores of the deep blue Lake Tana.
Measuring 68 km by 73 km, Tana is Ethiopia's largest lake and famous for the churches and monasteries on 20 of the lake's 37 islands.
www.bahirdar.com   (177 words)

  
  Bahir Dar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bahir Dar is a city in north western Ethiopia, and the capital of the Amhara Administrative Region (kilil).
Administratively, Bahir Dar is considered a Special Zone, placing it midway between Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa which are organized as chartered cities (astedader akabibi, equivalent to a kilil), and cities like Mek'ele and Dessie, which are organized as woredas.
Bahir Dar is situated on the southern shore of Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile (or Abay), in what was previously the Gojjam province.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bahir_Dar   (384 words)

  
 Features of the tourism sector in Amhara state   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bahir Dar, the capital city of the ANS has a huge natural and cultural tourist attraction potentials for the development of tourism industry.
Bahir Dar is a lake side town which attracts international and domestic tourists for leisure.
A. Being the capital of ANS, Bahir Dar town is privileged to have a large number of manpower to be employed in the tourism sector.
www.waltainfo.com /Conflict/Articles/2005/May/article35.htm   (2553 words)

  
 Ethio-Der Tour and Travel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bahir Dar, which literally translates as “next to the river,” is located on the shores of Ethiopia’s gorgeous Lake Tana, whose hundreds of tiny islands serve as the sites of many ancient monasteries and churches.
Found in Bahir Dar, these are the second largest falls on the African continent, and are an incredible sight to see, particularly during the rainy season when the fall volumes exceed 8,000 cubic meters of water falling per second.
The Hammer territory stretches from the lower Omo region in the west to Chew Bahir in the east, and from near the Kenyan border in the south all the way to the territory of the Benna.
www.ethio-der.com /glossary.asp   (4118 words)

  
 Bahir Dar travel guide - Wikitravel
The city is equipped with an International airport with paved runways, identified by the ICAO code HABD and IATA BJR; Ethiopian Airlines operates scheduled flights between Bahir Dar and the capital(Addis-Ababa) as well as with Gondar to the northwest.
Bahir Dar is situated on the southern shore of Lake Tana, the source of the Blue Nile (or Abay).
Bahir Dar grew around a Jesuit settlement, founded in the sixteenth or seventeenth century, from which time the Pedro Páez building dates.
wikitravel.org /en/Bahir_Dar   (533 words)

  
 Ethoipia , Bahir Dar University
Bahir Dar University was inaugurated in May 2001 (1992 E.C.) when Bahir Dar Teachers College and Bahir Dar Polytechnic Institute joined together to become the Education and Engineering Faculties, respectively, of the new University.
The University is situated in relaxed surroundings on the edge of Bahir Dar town; the Engineering Faculty campus is a stone's throw from Lake Tana and walking distance from the town centre; the Education faculty is at the southern end of town, on a site adjoining the Blue Nile River.
Bahir Dar is a cheerful and relaxing town to stay in, combining the bustle of town life with the gentler pace of the rural suburbs.
www.telecom.net.et /~bdu   (336 words)

  
 Case to develop research relationships with sister city Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Others in the delegation include the mayor of Bahir Dar, the president of Bahir Dar University, its vice president of research, the director of the Bahir Dar hospital, and the head of the chamber of commerce.
Bahir Dar is capital of the administrative region containing a medical school (Gonder College of Medical Sciences) and highland areas in the Semien Mountains National Park.
He felt that Bahir Dar would be a good candidate because of its proximity to Lake Tana and because it was a regional capital.
www.case.edu /news/2004/7-04/bahirdar.htm   (759 words)

  
 lake tana
Following a short flight on Ethiopian Airlines from Gondar to Bahir Dar Airport, the gut-wrenching condition of the road leading west led me to believe our group of 11 journalists would be staying at some dusty lakeside village.
Bahir Dar would rival many seaside retreats on the Mediterranean or Florida.
On a peaceful hill near Emperor Haile Selassie's Bahir Dar palace, overlooking the Blue Nile, we stopped to mark the moment on film.
www.eatic.org /lake_tana.htm   (486 words)

  
 UNICEF - Evaluation database -
The prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Bahir Dar town, as estimated from the sero survey result of ANC attendants of Bahir Dar Health center, indicated that the town has the highest sero prevalence rate (20.8 percent) of the whole country.
Furthermore, the sero surveys on HIV prevalence conducted among sex workers in Ethiopia from 1988 to 1999 showed that the rate for Bahir Dar town was the highest during the whole period and has shown a progressive rise i.e., from 35.9 percent in 1988 to 69.4 percent in 1991.
A sample size of 478 (323 for females in the age group 15-49 and 155 for males in the age group 12-24) was derived from randomly selected households in two randomly selected Kebeles from Bahir Dar town for a questionnaire.
www.unicef.org /evaldatabase/index_14278.html   (1251 words)

  
 Itineraries - Historical Ethiopia
Tiss Abay is the small town where we leave the vehicle behind and climb to the best vantage point of the falls, which vary in depth depending on the season.
Bahir Dar is a pleasant city located on the shores of Lake Tana, the largest lake in Ethiopia.
This afternoon, you visit the Zege peninsula for its famous 14th century monasteries of Ura Kidanemihret, Azewa Mariam and the island monastery of Kibran Gebriel (where only men are allowed) for their wonderful 16th century mural paintings, crowns, crosses and many old church treasures.
www.bornfreesafaris.com /historical_ethiopia.htm   (750 words)

  
 Bahir Dar and the Blue Nile Falls, Ethiopia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bahir Dar and the Blue Nile Falls, Ethiopia
Gojam region, in the Amhara National Regional State, is to the north west of Shewa (Shoa), where the capital Addis Ababa is situated.
The Tis Isat (or Tissisat) Falls, ("Smoke of fire") near the town of Bahir Dar is an impressive sight: here the waters plunge 45 metres into the gorge below and flow towards nearby Lake Tana, the highest of Africa's lakes, measuring 68 km by 73 km and covering over 2600 square kilometres.
ozoutback.com.au /worldpics/Africa/Ethiopia/bahardar.html   (253 words)

  
 SOS Childrensvillages : Bahir Dar
Bahir Dar is one of the most dynamic and fast-growing towns in Ethiopia.
The SOS Children's Village Bahir Dar comprises 12 family houses, a Village Director's House, an administrative building, a clinic, a multi purpose hall, a community house, a service block (which houses a bakery and a shop) and a SOS Kindergarten with four classes.
The SOS Farm Bahir Dar is located approximately 17 km southeast of the town Bahir Dar.
www.sos-childrensvillages.org /html/bahir_dar.html   (483 words)

  
 rivers
That evening in Bahir Dar, we met Neville, an expert kayaker, who had expressed a few weeks before in Addis, his desire to join our expedition.
Waking early, we had a hurried breakfast at the hotel in Bahir Dar, after which we drove back to the bridge - six men and all the gear packed into one normal sized 4-WD.
Here in the attractive resort city of Bahir Dar in northwest Ethiopia, is where the Nile river system merges with the blue waters of Africa's fifth biggest lake.
www.eatic.org /rivers.htm   (1350 words)

  
 Rainbow Tours - Ethiopia | Bahir Dar
On the shores of Lake Tana, Bahir Dar is the gateway to the Blue Nile Falls and the Zeghe Peninsula.
Bahir Dar is an attractive town with tree-lined avenues and set on the shores of the deep blue Lake Tana.
Bahir Dar has several clubs and bars where visitors can enjoy traditional and modern Ethiopian music and dancing in the evening.
www.rainbowtours.co.uk /index.php?id=552   (251 words)

  
 ::KIBRAN TOUR::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bahir Dar, Lake Tana, with its thirty isles, keepers of ancient coptic monasteries, the blue Nile which falls into the spectacular Tissisat waterfalls -- the name means water that smokes.
The monasteries and rock churches in the Tigre and, at last, Lalibela, the Jerusalem of Ethiopia with its 11 monolithic, red-colored churches, excavated in the rock and connected by a network of tunnels, today still a vital center ofthe coptic church, where the people from the entire country gal her during the colorfulfestivities.
Bahir Dar: boat trip on Lake Tana (the biggest lake of Ethiopia) to visit the monastery churches.
www.kibrantour.com /english/rottastorica.htm   (409 words)

  
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Bahar Dar is a small commercial town situated on the Southern tip of Lake Tana.
Alternatively, you can choose to travel on from the Blue Nile Gorge in the direction of that jagged plateau tableland, the Simien Mountains, far to the north, at the foot of which lies Lake Tana where the river is born.
Perhaps the best way for the visitor who is short on time, however, is to take the daily scheduled air service from Addis Ababa and stay overnight at one of the pleasant hotels in Bahar Dar, the town which stands on the southermost point of Lake Tana.
polaris.umuc.edu /~zgetahun/msit_660/bahirdar.htm   (295 words)

  
 chap41
Unlike the participants in the other towns, in Bahir Dar, both the focus group discussants and the individual interviewees were aware that VCT services were provided at the zonal hospital in Bahir Dar.
In Bahir Dar, it was mentioned that girls from rural areas were considered to be free of HIV/AIDS and consequently, were often exposed to unprotected sex; participants said that these girls were often forced to have sex without a condom.
In Bahir Dar, the female discussants said that youths perceived that they were at risk; however, behavioral change was not observed.
www.etharc.org /publications/bss/chap41.htm   (8157 words)

  
 LakeNet - Programs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
LakeNet president David Read Barker also signed a Memorandum of Cooperation with Bahir Dar University and the LTRMRC to work jointly on conservation and sustainable development initiatives for Lake Tana and its watershed.
Bahir Dar University is hosting a two-day symposium to create awareness and common understanding among stakeholders for the integrated management of Lake Tana and its watershed and to develop strategies for sustainable management.
The heads of Bahir Dar University, the Lake Tana Resource Management Research Center (LTRMRC) and LakeNet signed a Memorandum of Cooperation today on the shores of Lake Tana in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.
www.worldlakes.org /activities.asp?activityid=13   (430 words)

  
 Amazing Ethiopia Tours
Bahir Dar is a fast growing town situated on the shore of Lake Tana.
About 30 km away from Bahir Dar there is the majestic Blue Nile Falls where waters of the Nile plunge over a cliff that is 50 meters long and 400 meters wide.
It is breath taking to view the falls breaking the smooth, majestic edge of the rolling Nile in to a thundering cataract of white water foaming and boiling down a dark cliff.
www.amazingethiopia.com /Bahirdar.htm   (209 words)

  
 Departments, BPTI   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Bahir Dar Polytechnic Institute (BPTI) is one of the oldest technical institute in the country, established in 1963 by the technical co-operation between the governments of Ethiopia and the former USSR.
Initially, the Institute was famous by the name of Bahir Dar Technical High School.
As can be seen, the Bahir Dar Polytechnic Institute has been instrumental in the planning and execution of technical education in the country from the very beginning.
www.tcs.tifr.res.in /~mesfin/bpti/POLY-HISTO.htm   (530 words)

  
 Bahir Dar Things To Do - Travel Guides - VirtualTourist.com
Directions: The Blue Nile Falls is 32 KM south east of Bahir Dar.
So on our way to Bahir Dar we saw a priest, collecting money along the roadside with his umbrella upside down.
Directions: The falls are 32 KM south east of Bahir Dar.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Africa/Ethiopia/Bahir_Dar-2024144/Things_To_Do-Bahir_Dar-BR-2.html   (1026 words)

  
 GoNOMAD--A Journey to Bahir Dar
My journey to Bahir Dar, a small town crouched on the edge of Lake Tana, several hundred kilometers north of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, begins with a 4 A.M. wake-up knock on my hotel door.
Though the only bus to Bahir Dar is full, Adana helps me to bribe my way onto another sold-out bus headed in the same direction, securing a promise from the driver that he will drop me off in Bahir Dar as we pass through.
Bahir Dar...crouching on the edge of Lake Tana, its streets are lined with palm trees and traveled upon by bicycle-riding locals.
www.gonomad.com /destinations/0308/bahirdar.html   (2805 words)

  
 Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
This research was conducted to study the knowledge, attitude and practice of reproductive health among senior secondary school students at Bahir Dar.
The study was conducted in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara National Regional State.
They were randomly selected by our research unit leaders and informed about the aim of the study.  In each grade, sections were randomly selected and nearly equal numbers of male and female students were selected based on their age.
www.bioline.org.br /request?rh03022   (3099 words)

  
 Textile and Garment Industry Support Institute of Bahir Dar University
The program thus seeks to identify what should be offered the industry to increase overall increase in quality management, economic contribution and overall performance.
It was therefore proposed and decided to establish industry-specific support institute under Bahir Dar University.
The duration of the project for the establishment of the Textile and Garment Industry Support Institute is expected to be 3 years.
www.telecom.net.et /~bdu/textinst.html   (543 words)

  
 Bahir Dar Travel Blogs
Left Addis around 6am to make the 12hour jaunt to Bahir Dar; roads (and most other infrastructure) get a lot more attention in the North (apparently because the politicians are from the North) and so the drive was quite a bit more comfortable than the South.
So much has happened since my last entry: We have packed up Karlas house in Shola and moved everything to her new house in Hyat which is a good 30 mins outside of Addis.
June 11 This morning we took a flight from Addis to Bahir Dar in the northern part of Ethiopia.
www.travelblog.org /Africa/Ethiopia/Bahir-Dar   (571 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The next day, we were off to Bahir Dar, at the southern end of historic Lake Tana.
It was just outside of Bahir Dar that we ran across our first tank.
The best hotel in Bahir Dar is a government run establishment.
www.pgordon.com /ethiopia/tana.html   (331 words)

  
 Palin's Travels: Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, Pole to Pole, Day 79
Leaving Bahir Dar we pass a huge and graphic anti-Mengistu painting by the roadside.
Leering horribly, he has one arm raised in a dictator's clenched fist salute, and the other securing a crutch beneath his armpit, as the lower part of his body decomposes onto a heap of skulls.
At the village of Tissabay, eighteen miles from Bahir Dar, we have to disembark and walk the last mile to the falls.
www.palinstravels.co.uk /book-706   (342 words)

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