Ethiopia

[Claudio]

Thanks a lot for your report!

Any advice for finding the appartment? Including the car?

You can mail me.

I'm back in Addis in end of Oktober for 10 days.

What about the scary things in Mercado?

Take care and thanks again!

I travelled to Addis for 4 days near Easter time earlier this year and I have to say it is still a trip I have fond memories of most days when my mind wanders, despite the fact that it was a so-so experience in the end from a beginning that promised so much..

[John Auro]

Back in town. Plus Massage Saloons and Sex + 2 photos.

(Great report from MIRANDA thanks! How you manage to get all these street names? You must have gotten one of these rare street maps,

Actually Addis is a town where most taxi driver or locals don't know about street names)

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Back in Town. 2 weeks ago I had a good time at "Happy Massage", with Meron. See recent report #1332. Blow job, incredible ass caressing, and rubbing her hot pussy on my cock while she was moaning, and she spoke decent English.

It was aboiut midday I passed the MSaloon. Hmm, I white paper with a government stamp sealed the door of the house off. We are in Africa; Paper was not sticking well so I could enter into the unlocked house, everything was nicely prepared, the rooms, just not a single soul on the compartment. Ok, it was obvious that these Msalons never or hardly paid tax and now it was time for the Government to roll them up one after the other of theses saloon, that's whet I guessed. I was nervous, I was looking forward to pump this girl, oh big shit. 3 phone numbers where posted at the massage panel at the entrance from the street. One of them worked. It did not take long and I had Maron on the line. Yes the salon was raided this morning by government officials! We met at the Bole guesthouse nearby. Cute she was and sexy and perfect figure. No discount for a short time at the Hotel. 450Birr was the Hotel fee, was not happy about this, I know a Hotel for 70 Birr short time. But oh God, taxi got such a pain in the a. Meanwhile at Addis. 100 birr (4€) he wanted.

To make things short I agreed for Bole Guest house, and before paying the room I made it clear to Meron that 500birr would be hers. She was not happy about this, she wanted 800 but I declined. She looked great when she undressed in the room, she was sexy and easy going too. Perfect body, perfect pussy. I asked her for her incredible ass caressing, but this time my sensation was not optimal, I Think its the chill you get the 1st t time in such an encounter, the unknown what would come, what would be possible, which puts you erogen nerves on an optimum. Once you know the story, things are less exiting? Anyhow, blow job, and putting my best part in her tight, tight pussy. But she had a slight acid lemon smell from her pussy, not much, some might like it, but me not, I am a fan of clean non smelling pussies, the one which had no degrading sperm yet, like you get it with Moroccan virgins. Also she never looked at me, kept her eyes closed all the time. She also did not really get aroused too much. I even finished without coming. To be short, perfect body, sexy handling, easy going mentality, but not connecting with me. So not a story to repeat.

Next day she texted me that 'Happy Massage' reopened. Actually she phoned or texted me every day to ask me to pass her massage place and I replied to her with with excuses.

Went for dark Sara (dayshift) next day at 'Mahi Massage' (off Mescalflower Road.). I knew her, perfect sensual hand job with a lot of oil. Damage 120 birr swedish massage plus 150 birr tip.

Actually I started to ask what the girls get for their work from their boss? One girl said 25 birr commission for Swedish (130 birr) and 35 birr for Aroma / Matrass massage à 200birr. Another girl said she gets 50 birr from 200 birr Aroma Massage, On my question if most clients want sex? She said „Yes'.

Saturday, a friend told me at "Blue Ocean Bar and Restaurant" Girls are stroking your best part under the table while you drink your beer, I was skeptical. Place is between CMC roundabout and Ayatena roundabout, right side if you drive towards town. Ok, nice modern place, good disco light show, kind of dark, but I saw any of the girl doing any action. But I started dancing with a cute petite, named Zarito, but no word English, she phoned me the days after every day too. Left her as I had a date at "Voudre / Gies-Bar & Bistro", French place, means the "the drunken or the tipsy"? It was before situated at Kazanchis, now its on Makanania road, next to a bridge, a large mosque is also not far. Big party and music at the bistro, also (mostly young) foreigners (from NGOs) tend to go there. Great place!

Sunday, I past "Ben Massage" off Joly Hotel, Tchejenia. Sara-2 was my cuty, short hair cut,"Grace Jones Style", light skin. Aroma matrass: 200 birr, toilet seat crushed in 10 pieces with my 90kg. Sara, nice attitude, sexy, English, Aroma-School, medical massage ok, some erotic touch, I asked her "You do extra,"Which one?","You fuck?", Yes","Blowjob?","no".

She was not going to tell me how much she wanted and I was reluctant to ask her, so we stayed with a good hand job and she got 200 tip. She did not count money. Great breast and she opened bra for me and she squeezed her tits, but she did not like to take off her panties. Anyhow great girl and charming (pudgy) receptionist,

Monday, I was hot to f*k Sara-2, Thanks God she was there, dayshift normally starts at 10 am, her day off is Wednesday. Massage with her as usual but soon she got inpatient for the real thing and me too. I brought my condom along, which may always be recommendable not to get any interruption? Tight, tight pussy, it took some time to get her wet, great clean young body, great tits, she is kind of light in skin. But I could not really heat her up, I saw no excitement in her face, kissing she avoided. After a while she asked: 'You come? ' One of the most stupid question women can do, as it means I reality: 'Hurry up, I want to get it over quickly'. I could not come anyhow, but I told her she should not worry, thats my thing. Gave her 400birr, plus 200birr for the house. After some minutes she came back and claimed 'Sex would be 500birr (or hand job 200birr) '. I put her quiet with 50 birr more. Again not a case to repeat, or maybe yes, but I would leave the country anyhow the day after.

Tuesday, Nardos, the young cute and big kisser from last year and total denier and refuser from this year (see #1332) started texting me urgent sms that she would need instantly 2000 birr (80€) as her mother went to hospital. I replied 'if it could be possible that she got pregnant and that she doesn't want to keep the baby? ' She started insulting me what a mean person I would be. Was time to switch off the phone for the take-off of my airbus.

It looks like the these Massage Salons get more and more a standard for a place to f*k. Was not like this up to a year before, I never ever had intercourse at that time at Massage Saloons, it started just from last year (2012) on and it seems to get a standard. What a fantastic thing to have signboards for massage salons all over town which actually mean = 'bordello'!

John

[Solato]

Addis Ababa and had an opprtunity to know its culture and many of its local languages. I really witnessed the amazing changes in the way girls in Addis treat guests. Last night I was driving on Bole Road from Desalegn Hotel to Bole. I picked one street walking girl and took her to my room. I came to know from her ID card that she is a second year college student. On my way, I was fingering her in the car. She is really sexy and very good in real actions. All doors were open for me. She even offered me BBJ which I didn't dare in fear of STD. She gave me lovely CBJ. On the second session which took us a bit longer, we started doggy in the bath room, switched to anal which was a bit hard for me bacause of extreme tightness. She helped me in lubricating. She had DDD breast with killer tit and I came on those watermelons. She was very happy to stay with me for the third session. This time I requested her to finger herself while I was watching. She screamed in her local language and came before I indulge into CBJ in 69 position where I enjoy sniffing her wet hot pussy. The smell was exciting for me.

[Miranda256]

Well I wish I could say that I had as much luck as Miranda.

I was just in Addis for one night. And it was bare & lacking of any excitement.

Maybe it was because of the weather. Cool & a bit wet. Am not sure.

My hotel was off the main action track, so I took a taxi to the Edna mall area.

There used to be 3 or 4 massage places around here.

Around 10-30 11pm

It was quiet & I could not find one place open.

There was only one working girl on the streets. But not worth taking a second look.

After wandering this area alone for around an hour or so I took a taxi to Hellen massage...

I am sorry you had little joy on your only night in Addis. I'd be interested to know which streets you walked when you went for a wander from Edna Mall as that is close to the heartbeat of the street scene in Bole. Had you walked north along Namibia Street it would've been unlikely you would have walked for long without bumping into an SW. Had you carried on up Namibia St and then at the next major junction kept on going into Ghana St it would've had women there, if you had turned left into Cape Verde St there would've been women there too, especially at that time. Even if for some reason those streets were dead, had you have turned right at that junction you'd have been on Mike Leyland St (Chechnya) which would most definitely have had dozens of women there.

At the Edna Mall Roundabout, Cameroon St heading SE from the Mall had women along there every one of the 4 nights I was there but they were spaced out and you had to go right the way down to the Ring Road / Airport to get a measure of what was there. North from Edna Mall on Djibouti St I always saw women along there too but, like the other roads in that area they are long and not ideal for walking because of the serious distances you'd have to cover, which was why I had decided to get a car for my time there.

The other two roads off that Edna Mall roundabout-the one to the north of the Medhane Alem Cathedral and the one going south to Bole Road-I never once saw a single woman on either of those streets, it was all quite well defined which streets you would see women on.

I was there in April and it rained a few times when I was there too but it had no effect on the numbers I saw on the streets.

I would definitely say for anyone wanting to explore this area (and it's a large one) to try & hire a car, you'll see so much more than you will on foot as it's all so spread out. I've no idea if you can commandeer a taxi for such purposes (don't see why not, a cab driver would be only too happy for that kind of money I would've thought) but it still doesn't allow for the freedom a set of your own wheels gives you. As you say Gesheft, for a single night's fun Mike Leyland St would've been your best bet.

I must also add that I never once saw a police patrol car in my time in Addis or in particular in that area. It must be the only place I've ever been to where the threat of police coming up behind you when you're stopped talking to someone just does not exist. There were, however, visibly armed policemen in twos patrolling on foot on occasion but it rarely seemed to bother the women at all (perhaps they felt safer with them there or perhaps as in Kenya they work in tandem with many of the girls and take a cut).

[Miranda256]

Absolutely excellent report, packed with useful detail.

However for all the non-Africa mongers I suggest you think hard before jumping on the next flight. Addis (and Nairobi) certainly isn't for the inexperienced or those who expect support\can't think on their feet.

Other than that well done, you must have really put the hours in to cover all that ground.

Looking forward to a trip there later this year. I'll be happy to verify your numbers\areas!

Ps. How did you secure a short term apartment rental?

Pps. Are you western ferenji?

Hi Biffa,

Thanks very much for the compliments I certainly did put in a lot of hours, I spent a good amount of my time there driving around the city (I was walking around the city the rest of the time), and I am indeed ferenji.

In regards to how I got a short term apartment, I just hunted around on search engines for websites that offered them. There weren't many but it was enough of a choice to weigh up the different options.

The flat I stayed in was part of a huge new social housing complex which was already quite a dump when I stayed there. The flat itself was fine but for the complete lack of water which made it tough going. This was why I ventured out so much as there was absolutely no point in staying there other than to put my head down.

That said, the locals were very friendly if very curious to see a ferenji staying in their run-down corner of Addis but this was also a conscious decision to stay in a place like this, I wanted to live in an area that the locals lived in (this is just not possible or safe in Nairobi). A clue as to how safe it was, cars were parked on the streets below at night (you never see that in Nairobi) , no Askari / Nightwatchmen to be seen anywhere, no having go through manned / locked gates to get to my flat, just free to come & go as I pleased (this couldn't be more different to just about anywhere comparable in Kenya).

Ferenji like me definitely stick out more in Addis than the equivalent Mzungus in Kenya. I got stared at a lot (not just by women) whereas in Kenya' major cities I don't stick out at all, perhaps as much down to years of colonialism and the hangover white settlers who hung about after independence. Addis didn't feel half as cosmopolitan in contrast.

I would agree with you that any potential visitors to Africa who haven't been here before, that you plenty of reading in these threads. A friend of mine who's lived in Africa for over 40 years siad to me on first meeting me: 'You'll love & enjoy Africa, but I've been here for over 40 years and it still keeps me on my toes even now. ' That just about says it all, it is place full of surprises that can delight you, amaze you, frustrate you beyond belief and just downright scare the hell out of you. There's little in the way of predictability here like you so often get in the West (even the policeman here won't always look for a bribe from you, which is always a surprise when that happens!).

Regarding what this website is all about, do be prepared for that fact that some of the women are just outright thieves, plain & simple. If you've been doing this sort of thing for some time you get a nose for it and get confident that you can sense a potential thief / scammer. My experiences in Kenya (in particular) have demonstrated a whole new level of scamming expertise and you can rarely sense it's happening until it's too late. I know exactly what I'm looking for now as it's happened to me (and it was very expensive & quite frightening). I didn't detect scamming / thievery at that level in Addis Ababa, more the same kind of common thieving you get anywhere I've been in the West, so from that point of view it's much like the West really in how careful you have to be & how much you need to keep your wits about you. Just the same as anywhere, those Ethiopian women who want to take a bit more from you than just the agreed fee will quickly suss you out as a potential target if you let them.

[Gesheft]

Well I wish I could say that I had as much luck as Miranda.

I was just in Addis for one night. And it was bare & lacking of any excitement.

Maybe it was because of the weather. Cool & a bit wet. Am not sure.

My hotel was off the main action track, so I took a taxi to the Edna mall area.

There used to be 3 or 4 massage places around here.

Around 10-30 11pm

It was quiet & I could not find one place open.

There was only one working girl on the streets. But not worth taking a second look.

After wandering this area alone for around an hour or so I took a taxi to Hellen massage.

My first time there, I was the only client around.

Opted for the Moroccan massage. 1st time I have tried this.

It was of course steamy & wet. Ok. But no sexual excitement at all,

Then for a swedish. And I asked for extras. 200bir HJ & 600 for FS.

Opted for HJ. And had to do most of the work myself.

All in all. A pretty poor massage & bad HJ!

So. Next time that I have some time to kill & looking for some fun will head straight to Chechnya area.

G

[Member #4349]

I travelled to Addis for 4 days near Easter time earlier this year and I have to say it is still a trip I have fond memories of most days when my mind wanders, despite the fact that it was a so-so experience in the end from a beginning that promised so much.

Absolutely excellent report, packed with useful detail.

However for all the non-Africa mongers I suggest you think hard before jumping on the next flight. Addis (and Nairobi) certainly isn't for the inexperienced or those who expect support\can't think on their feet.

Other than that well done, you must have really put the hours in to cover all that ground.

Looking forward to a trip there later this year. I'll be happy to verify your numbers\areas!

ps - how did you secure a short term apartment rental???

pps - are you western ferenji?

[Miranda256]

I travelled to Addis for 4 days near Easter time earlier this year and I have to say it is still a trip I have fond memories of most days when my mind wanders, despite the fact that it was a so-so experience in the end from a beginning that promised so much.

I flew to Addis on the early morning flight out of Nairobi (Ethiopian is a good airline I have to say, by African standards). Bole Airport sits right on the edge of the city (almost feels like the City Centre given the fact the Bole area looks & feels like the the Commercial hub of the City). You could walk straight out of the airport and into what feels like the heart of the city. In terms of what I came for it was the centre of activity in any case.

Having looked up various hotels and the difficulty in coming & going with whomever you please at nearly all of them, I sought other avenues of accommodation online and stayed in a flat right on the Eastern edge of the city in a newly built and vast suburb called Ayat. Any further East would be in Hyena country (which I could hear in the night from my flat). It was dirt cheap (less than 600Birr a night) and I had the use of the flat owner's car for another 600Birr a day, a bargain because Car Hire is cheap in Addis from local firms (very few International Chains there for whatever reason) but always come with limited daily mileage, usually about 75km a day. I knew I was going to do more than that getting round the city so that was a great deal.

The bummer about the flat though, I had virtually no running water for the whole duration which would almost certainly preclude me from staying there again, it was not fun at all. Easy to forget just how important water is to everyday life, especially when you've got virtually none. That said, apart from the nosey (but friendly) neighbour just next door who seemed to spend her entire day & night on the balcony, I was indeed free to come and go with whoever I pleased, and I did!

I've always had a fascination about the beautiful women of Ethiopia so I knew I was going to enjoy this trip come what may. I just had no idea how 'available' so many Ethiopian girls really are. The country has an exploding population (due to hit 100 million within the next 10 years) and at least half of that population is under 25 so that is one hell of a lot of hot Ethiopian women. There are very few opportunities to progress in a very poor country like Ethiopia so, as over so much of Africa, numerous local women use the one thing they know will help them get by, their unique looks (Ethiopian men are very, very lucky!). Having read so much about how proud the Ethiopian people are and how aloof the women can be (to an extent they certainly are) , I was astounded at just how many passes were made at me by many, many women in Addis of young to middle age. And a good proportion of them were outright stunners too.

I drove over every corner of Addis. It's a much safer place than Nairobi and the high walls & fences, often barbed wire-topped, Askaris, night watchmen & security you see all over Nairobi (and in much of Kenya's towns& cities) is largely absent in Addis, although you obviously see much more of it in the most affluent neighbourhoods.

Only one place I did not feel safe even driving through windows up at night was the area around Merkato (Addis Ketema area) which came closest to the kind of destitution you see in so many parts of Nairobi. It had a wild feel to it that I felt nowhere else in this big city and felt that was really not a place for a Ferenji to be. Aside from that, Addis is a cleaner, safer and better laid-out place than Nairobi in my opinion.

Having done a lot of research elsewhere about the night streetlife of Addis, I was keen to see just what / who would be knocking about on the streets of Addis. I read Ethiopian newspaper reports of a street prostitution epidemic in Addis (and many other places in Ethiopia) which is hardly surprising given the overwhelmingly young and poor population of the country.

It turned out those newspaper reports were absolutely true & hardly overstated. Certain parts of Addis are literally crawling with young women on the streets at night. I imagine part of that is the fact that it's a pretty safe place so it was not unusual to see women standing by themselves at regular intervals along certain streets which you rarely find in Nairobi (they are mostly huddled in small groups as much for their own safety as anything else).

The main areas for finding babes on the streets I found were:

Bole (head and shoulders above everywhere else in the city for me) , the sheer quantity (and quality) of women pounding the pavements in this area was head-spinning, on my first night there I counted close to 150 different women out & about in this area alone and it was much the same every night I was there.

The area extends from the Airport in the South as far north as Debre Damo / Kazanchis, and from Gabon St in Cherkos as far east as the Meganagna Roundabout (where the Bus Station is). Certain streets like Gabon St, Ghana St / Namibia St / Medhane Alem / Cameroon St, Cape Verde St, obviously Mike Leyland St, Haile Gebre Selassie St / Equatorial Guinea St & Djibuti St are the main hunting grounds and you will not have to go far down any one of these streets before you spot someone willing, from almost as soon as the Sun's gone down until it rises again (when whatever's left on the streets scarpers hurriedly home-which was quite amazing to watch, almost like they'd melt if they stayed out a minute longer!).

On Mike Leyland St on both sides of the road you will literally walk into the women there, there can be so many of them on the street, looking to entice you into one of the Christmas Lights bars or for a quick jaunt elsewhere (mainly Atlas Hotel just along the road).

When I was there in April Bole Road was all up and being re-done for much of it's length into the City Centre so with very little passing traffic the girls have stayed-off there presumably until it's done. I saw next to no-one on that street any night.

Nearby in Cherkos the Concorde is one of the few nightspots in town (mentioned so often on here) I often saw beauties walking down Sierra Leone St from town along there and all the women I saw walking along there to and from the Concorde still had the meter on and were still offering business (I spoke to quite a few of them).

You will also see babes all the way along Gabon St from the Bole Road to the Concorde (which I only discovered the night I was due to fly back, dammit!).

On the road going directly East from Meganagna Roundabout (not the Asmara Road but the one going arrow straight east towards Ayat) I often saw women along there too, more sporadically but there nonetheless. In fact, anywhere in Addis that I saw a bar or a collection of bars together, or some form of nightlife, there would be women out on the road outside those bars, sometimes just one, sometimes half a dozen, waiting to pick up business from pissed-up, randy Ethiopian men stumbling out the bars.

Another place like this I saw was in Gerji in the East of the city. There is one narrow road there that is full of Christmas Lights Bars (less hectic than Mike Leyland St) and clearly for the locals, so probably silly cheap although did not indulge.

I saw little street action going in the city centre proper (other than Piazza of course) , ie. Along Churchill and Arat Kilo but know there are little streets tucked off to the side nearby that are lined with shacks full of ladies of the night. I didn't indulge in any of these places as they really didn't appeal and to be honest just wasn't necessary when there was so much on the open streets that was far hotter.

The area around Merkato is much like this too. Along Fitawrari Habte Giorgis St which runs along the northern edge of Merkato, there were a few of these shack-lined alleys running off it that were packed to the rafters with women although I saw other people there who really, really shouldn't have been there and that drove me out of that area sharpish. I will not say what I saw (perhaps the more perceptive of you who read this can guess) but needless to say it's not a niche market that any right-thinking, self-respecting man should ever even contemplate indulging in.

I drove round Piazza quite a few times but just found it to be very dark & not very inviting (whereas all the other areas of the city where women play their trade were largely in well-lit areas). I noticed it was perhaps the only place you could get what you wanted during the day too in terms of spotting women out & about. That said, one night I counted no less than 60 women out & about waiting for business in the small, tightly-packed area that is Piazza (it's all confined to quite a narrow maze of streets, better for walking about in than driving for sure). To be honest, having been entranced by Bole's nighttime attractions I found Piazza almost unappealing by comparison.

There were no other obvious areas I could see of women on the streets in Addis but, trust me, this little lot above added up to a hell of a lot of women in any case. This did not include actually going inside any of the bars / clubs I saw nor the big hotels (although I did go into one, the Sheraton-more on that later).

One observation I made was that in Merkato and, to an extent, in Piazza the women were more likely to be dressed in traditional Ethiopian dress than western clothing, which was the complete opposite of Bole & the other places in Addis I saw women out & about who were very much dressed in their Western finery. Different dress to appeal to different markets? Perhaps. The impression I got was that Piazza & definitely Merkato were the really destitute women who probably came to Addis with those very clothes from different parts of Ethiopia (urbanization is not at all developed in Ethiopia, the overwhelming majority of the population are still rural) , whereas the women of Bole et al are more city girls (many certainly had city street mentalities that I noted).

On my first night in Addis I was amazed this place isn't one of the top destinations worldwide for this 'hobby'. The women are by and large young (most in their 20's, some a bit older) , many were utterly drop-dead gorgeous (in Bole at least) , prices on first enquiry appeared to be very keen to say the least. However, by the time I left I fully realised why.

For starters, Ethiopian girls by and large do not appear to be very adventurous at all, nor do they feel they have to really get involved in what they're doing. It's almost as if the very fact they're in the room with you should be enough and their looks should be all that's required and little else. This runs almost completely counter to my experiences with Kenyan women, as has also been noted on here before who are by and large adventurous and amorous in what they do and in my experience rarely rush. The two approaches to sex from neighbouring country's people could hardly be more different.

And as has been mentioned on here many times before, many Ethiopian women do not offer Oral, at all, and for no amount of money. This is unique in my experience anywhere, and was a real downer as I'm quite an afficionado of a great BJ, more than anything else really. For me, on this continent, sex is just too damn risky so I very rarely indulge. A previous poster on here said the best thing to do was just ask them if they did Oral / Suck. I would say of many that I asked, only 20-30% said yes they would. And it was by and large crap. On that last point, this is always a game of luck isn't it so is much the same anywhere but certain places and with certain nationalities you know vaguely what kind of BJ to expect. In Ethiopia I can safely say I never found one great one, in fact only one even passably OK BJ & that was only salvaged by the fact she was seriously hot! This was a major blow (well, no it wasn't which I guess was the point!).

English is the number one foreign language taught in schools in Ethiopia now but you'd hardly notice. English is by & large spoken & understood very poorly in Addis (and other places I visited). Some spoke it well but I could count those people on the fingers of both hands in 4 days interacting with Ethiopians in their capital city, a major African city too (I heard no-one speak Italian at all-apparently that's mostly confined to the older generation or the other major foreign language in Africa, French). Ethiopia really is unique compared to so many other African countries, in this way & in many others. This is very different to Kenya where English is very well spoken & understood by even the most poorly educated of city dwellers (both in Nairobi & Mombasa and others besides). And even if not, Swahili is a very straightforward language to pick up basics and remember them. Amharic on the other hand (the main language spoken in Addis alongside Oromia, the two most widely spoken languages in Ethiopia) I found impossible to remember & learn to live with. Granted, I was only there 4 days but I have picked up language basics in other places with relative ease compared to Amharic. This made talking to the women sometimes quite an ordeal and led to a few misunderstandings that cost me.

Hygiene (this is a topic that crops up on this thread a lot) , or lack of it from some was also noted. What stuck me in Kenya when I arrived, almost anyone I'd been with would either shower beforehand or afterwards, often both of their own volition. This was not often the case in Ethiopia despite being close to a shower most times.

Prices always started at 500 (sometimes 1000) Birr and I had to work my way down from there. With some it was fine and they played the game as you'd expect. With others it was a take it or leave it offer, nothing less. Same in many places I suppose but perhaps also reflects the fact that the women of Bole are most definitely of a higher order than most other places in Addis, and they knew it.

One woman I saw outside Concorde raced over to me in the car and offered for $100! Another good reason I didn't bother to go in there. That said, the other women I saw & spoke to walking away from & towards Concorde were asking much what was being asked in Bole so clearly she had her head in the clouds (and compared to the others I saw on the road to Concorde she weren't all that either!).

Out of 5 intimate encounters I made in Addis over the course of the 4 days (I didn't go nuts). Two tried to outright fleece me. And both were very sexy women (although I noted both were older than the average girls out there). The first one I saw on Cape Verde St and she was hot. Almost Mediterranean in looks with lots of wavy black hair and a curvy body (although I noted too late the horrific state of her teeth, her body & looks were a perfect distraction. In future I will have to ask Ethiopian women to smile just to check, ffs!). She agreed BJ (by the way, not one of the small percentage of women who did do Oral accepted BBBJ, not even for double or more-I asked just to see what their acceptance point would be-let's just say the few who even entertained it didn't really entertain it at all 'because they demanded at least 2000 for that!). We agreed on 200. Or so I thought. She spoke next to no English so hand signs etc were having to do. At the end of what was a pretty crap encounter, she looked incredulous when I gave her 200 and motioned that we agreed 500. We most certainly did not and she wasn't getting it. Now at this point, you find out just how tough these women can be and whether they start inviting others (usually men / guards / mates etc) to get involved. Despite the fact I held out for at least 20 minutes, she didn't so I knew this wasn't going to get heavy. However, the runt took the door key & kept a hold of it (definitely not the first time she's done THAT!) until I coughed up. I sat there, she sat there, then we just sat some more, seeing who would crack first. However, I really didn't want to be sitting in that room all night and not have control over access to the door key. I said 400 was all she was getting, take it or leave it. I started making for the bed like I was going to sleep just to prove the point. She bit. I left, twice as light as I thought I was going to be leaving but it's hardly a fortune. Didn't turn around, just stormed off. She didn't cause anymore crap behind me but the experience was well & truly logged.

The other occasion was a similarly sexy, Mediterranean-looking babe with everything curvy in the right places (and fantastic teeth) , that was further up the same road where it becomes Mike Leyland St. She offered to take me to a place just off the main road behind some gates that was nothing like I've ever seen before. It was a frontyard of someone's big house full of car ports, all separated from one another by huge tarpaulins including the one you drive under to get into a port. It was secure, it was stupidly cheap (I think it was 25 Birr) & well away from prying eyes. The price and even the service wasn't the issue here (she was initially great) , but it all one major put-up job to distract as I caught her spare roving hand diving around for something to have away. That was it. She was getting out of my car as soon as was humanly possible without fuss. Thankfully, I was one step ahead of her and everything was well & truly out the way & hidden to begin with so it was a futile search for my wallet / phone, etc, as she found out. I didn't make a scene, I just made out like I'd actually had my happy ending, which she couldn't believe as there was no sign of one. I said I only dribble a tiny amount (if only she really knew) and I was done. So, let's get going I said! She was properly miffed and pissed off clearly that I hadn't given her enough time to search for my wallet / phone etc. Making a scene and getting all heavy on her would not be the done thing to do when I was behind huge guarded gates (who for all I knew were guarded by her mate / partner in crime) , so I played normally & it worked. Yes she got her money (200) but, again, I'm not one for making scenes in a very foreign country to me where I'd already discovered a streak of stubbornness / inability to listen amongst some Ethiopians that I encountered almost as soon as I arrived in the city's airport!

I had screened any potential women I was going to spend some time with to see if they were in any way suitable for me to take back to the flat (which, even though the streets are dead of cars after about 10pm other than cabs was still a 20 minute ride away driving quite fast). I was glad to say my instinct with these two was correct, as they then went on to prove. I didn't want to even think about what trouble they may have caused me in a very quiet block of flats at night in a remote part of town.

Thankfully, the two I chose to take back proved to be just fine. One was an amazing looker who was just an outright 10. She was at the bottom of Cameroon St just before the Ring Road & close to the airport. She had that classic mixed race look that the hottest Ethiopians have and had a gorgeous body wrapped in a tight blue number. Anywhere else she could've charged what she liked for her time. She charged me 200 (I gave her another 100 afterwards because she never rushed and I realised the journey to & from the flat was a long one only whilst driving there). I wanted to give myself the option of being able to do the same again with her before I left and I have no issue at all tipping those that are intent on providing a great service & I didn't want her to be put off by the drive either. This one was for the flat. Her name (streetname) was Freedom (I quickly blocked out the name of the thieves once they were dropped off). Just to have a woman so gorgeous sucking on the end of my tip for a good long time made up for the fact that her actual technique was nothing to write home about. I still haven't forgotten that image now & was almost worth the trip alone.

Except it got better, but only at a price this time. I had contacted a few women on AfroInt before going so that if things didn't turn out well on the street, I had more options to play with. The three who got back to me were (by their pictures) , typically beautiful Ethiopian women and I was keen to see if any of them actually matched that photo. The one I went for I met at the Sheraton (the plushest hotel in the city) and it was a lobby meet, which was perfect because if I spied a minger I could turn on my heel & she'd be none the wiser (by this time in Addis, I was pretty sure she would be the girl in the photo as I'd seen even more attractive women than her out on the streets). She said to meet her at the hotel as she at a friend's birthday party there. BS. I knew before I got there what I was dealing with what with her being at the plushest, most expensive hotel in the city but I thought what the hell. Just as well I did. She was exactly as the picture, only even more gorgeous in the flesh. She was beautiful & very sexy and the picture did not lie at all. Having chatted for a while in the lobby I realised she was a great conversationalist too, with great English. It was nice just to talk to someone there you could hold a chat with without the need to resort to hand signs. We went downstairs to the hotel bar. I knew it would be full of Ferenjis with ridiculously gorgeous Ethiopian girls everywhere. And that's exactly what I saw. Yet few I saw were any more stunning than the woman I was with so she is clearly in good company. After waiting an age for service we headed back upstairs for a drink, just a couple of coffees. She was very well educated, degree, kid of course & divorced. She was a complete delight to be with and we were hitting it off famously. Sat there for a couple of hours talking & laughing. I knew the issue of cost would come up soon so I was ready to have to walk away if necessary having spent a wonderful few hours with her which would've been a wrench but I don't work for the UN et al so money is most definitely an object. In the end it wasn't as painful as I feared it would be and I know what those girls downstairs at the bar charge for the night (thanks to this website) , which is paid without issue as it's not a problem for those clients. We agreed on a price and set off for my place. It shows that sometimes you get what you pay for as this was an experience unlike any other had in Addis by a long, long way. This is clearly a place where you can haggle on small beer with a gorgeous girl on the street but if you delve a bit deeper pocketwise the experience will exponentionally rise with it. This was on my last night so I had seen a lot of what the city had to offer by then. After I took her back to her place in the early morning (in a nice part of town so she clearly had bills to tend to) she said just on the drive to my flat earlier she fantasised about me pulling over and giving her one there & then. In the car, out the car, wherever. She was a racy one & the time spent with her was worth every Birr.

So, a really mixed bag in Addis. Gorgeous women in abundance but bad service also in abundance, but if you aim sights a bit higher and take a slightly weightier wallet, the rewards are there to be had.

Regarding other issues, the food is just to die for. We get great Ethiopian food in Nairobi (a big Ethio community there) but the food in Addis is of a whole other order, and very cheap too. Driving in Addis is not as mad as driving in Kenya (for a start, Ethiopians don't drink like Kenyans do, who are legendary in the region for it) and you don't get utterly sloshed drivers climbing in their cars (and not put their lights on at night) like you do in Kenya. That said, Ethiopians love using their car horns, a lot! It drove me completely insane and I had to get out the city for a while to escape the ridiculous unnecessary din it produced when just about everyone uses their horn for everything. In Kenya nobody really uses their horn, they just drive like nutjobs and you have to anticipate everything like a game of Chess because you won't hear a sound beforehand. I saw no traffic lights anywhere in Addis or beyond. Major crossroads. No problem just toot your way through the mayhem. Still, at least in Addis, drivers use their brakes on occasion. Police? Well, I got stopped by a traffic cop and pulled over as, silly me, I weren't wearing a belt having yet just left a cafe. He promptly took my front number plate off, held on to it, gave me a form to fill in entirely in Amharic (which uses a unique alphabet that is utterly bewildering) , told me to drive to the Transport Ministry to pay the fine (on the other side of the city) and I knew it would take hours once I got there, having dealt with Ethiopian officialdom at the airport when I arrived (utter nightmare). But, hey, this is Africa so I knew what was coming. Well, it's certainly a lot cheaper than other African countries that's for sure. 200 got me my plate back. I was expecting a lot more than that!

Addis (Bole) Airport is a total nightmare. I got stuck there for 4 hours before I could enter Addis (you have to pay the Visa in Dollars or Euros, nowt else will do). The ATMs were not working at my departure airport (should have got it before I know) and none would take my card for whatever reason at Addis Airport and it is a universally accepted card. I was being sent from pillar to post as no-one would help me. After an extremely expensive phonecall (about $25) at the Airport to my bank in Kenya to see if it was working OK (it was apparently) , an Exchange Bureau guy finally took pity on me and lent me the money so I could pay for the day Visa which would let me out the airport, get to an ATM in town, get back, pay him back & buy another longer Visa for the duration of my stay. Apart from that very helpful guy the many others I dealt with at the airport couldn't give a stuff & didn't want to know (apparently there are historical reasons for this in Ethiopia going back to the days of the Derg dictatorship according to numerous online accounts (including the BBC correspondent in Addis for years) when no-one would dare take the wrap / responsibility for anything & paper trails could go round endlessly waiting for someone to grow a pair, which was never).

Whatever you do, make sure you have the right currency with you to get your Visa long before you get to Addis, like I didn't. My experience of Addis Airport didn't end there. When I arrived for my flight back, there was a massive power cut & the whole airport (packed at this time) went into complete darkness. It took the back-up generators a few minutes to kick in by which time the place was in chaos. All the boards were operated by Windows XP which took forever to load up and I found myself waiting in the wrong queue for the wrong check-in desk, despite the fact it looked to all Ethiopian Airlines pax that it was one long generic queue for all their flights that evening. It wasn't. About 15 of us missed the flight by the time we got through the interminable wait at Passport (at least 45 minutes). My gate's flight was now going to Shanghai ffs. We were all booked on the first morning flight though and it was evident at the desk for doing this that it happens a lot at that airport as hardly any questions were asked and the staff knew exactly to do. The Airport is trying to post itself as the gateway to Sub-Saharan Africa. On this evidence even a burnt-out Nairobi airport would be better suited to that!

Despite this, I would go back in a heartbeat. Addis is a hell of town in some ways (make sure to go up Mount Entoto to the north of the city, the views are fantastic day or night) , the women I could crow about for days, the frustrations here are much the same as any you encounter in Africa elsewhere, the people are friendly, the city is by and large safe & it's cheap as chips (apart from mobile phone usage which is very expensive, restrictive & a pain to get an Ethiopian SIM card, and the internet is even worse).

I drove south out of town one day to Debre Zeyit to see the Volcanic Lakes there & there's a couple of lovely places you can sit by one of the lakes (Bishoftu) and sip on an Ethiopian beer (they're very good) or an Ethiopian Coffee (usually a Macchiato) which is very good universally and silly cheap (it is after all the birthplace of Coffee). And the women on the drive down there on the roadside, usually waiting for a bus, were numerous times gorgeous and often giving a drive-by eye as they were in Addis (I got numerous numbers during the daytime that way which I ran out of time to explore but the numbers piled up!).

It may not up there with Thailand, the Philippines, Brazil, the DR or even on a par with Kenya, but it's well worth a try as the women are worth going a long way to see in the flesh. I've never in my life seen such gorgeous street women in such abundance, and worth remembering that even everyday non-pros are, more often than not, just as easy on the eye if not easier than what I saw in Bole at night and as I found, just as up for some fun & games. Love the place!

[John Auro]

Addis Abeba Massage Saloons

A day in transit at Addis Abeba. Good occasion to have adventures in one of the everywhere mushrooming massage saloons. I was not here since 3/4 year. Prices went up. Actually not really, Swedish massage was always 100. 130 birrs (4€ to 5, 5€) , Aroma massage: Massage on matrass (with girl wearing a Bikini) 200birr, but now sometimes they say they don't offer Swedisch any more. Be careful with time and look at your watch. Both places I did, Girls only give a 35 minutes session, it should be a full 45 minutes!

Tried to find "Mame Massage" in Kasanchis but it got closed. Malika who was working there changed to "Wow-Massage" nightshift. On my way back to Atlas Hotel I passed "Happy Massage", I asked for Beza, she left and the girls pretended not to know to which Saloon she moved. I phone her later and Beza is working now nightshift at "Rom-Massage" somewhere near Bole and Friendship hotel.

Two girls to chose at "Happy Massage", one looked wild, but she had cold hands and watched TV instead of smiling to me. Kia seemed to be better. Dayshift. Slim, petit, cute girl. Swedish massage is 130 birr and Aroma (matrass) 200. Matrass massage has advantage that the girl is more close to you. Kia works at the place since 4 years, learned at 'Aroma-Massage-School / Piazza', medical massage good, erotic touch, especially skilled tenderly caressing ass cheeks and balls. She: "You want extra?". Me: "How much? And you do sex (intercourse) and blowjob? :" "Yes, how much you give? Me: 200 for blowjob. She no, want 1000 birr. Me: "no way and also I don't have this money with me". She continued medical massage. 5 Minutes later she came down to 500 birr. I explained her I have only 200birr. Of course she accepted before getting no money at all, maybe even no tip".

Blow job was tender, but not long in time. Later she rubbed her pussy hard against my cock, sitting on my tights, still wearing her panties, her breath accelerated and she might have come? Later she masturbated me well after, handjob, with a lot of oil, but I could not come. No problem as I intended to continue my massage tour.

Emotion / smile / talk: reduced; english: ok.

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Continued to "Wow Massage" TeleBole, between Edna Mall and Airport, left side, off, next to "Pink Massage". It was afternoon. Girl Sadday I know was on nightshift. I was recommended Masarath, she wear a wig and looked like Angela Davis. Medicial massage: medium, erotic touch: no. She: You want extra? She does sex (intercourse) however no blowjob. She wants 500 birr, I refused. She gave me a good handjob, strong hand on my prick, but I could not come. Tipp 150. Emotion / smile / talk: no, english: little.

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Continued to "Mahi Massage", off Mescal flower road, near Dreamliner Hotel. Taxi 70 birr. It was 5pm, Nardos would show up at 6 pm. Got massage number 3 with Sahra, to kill time. Intended not to come and keep my load for Nardos. But I knew Sahra from before and she got such a perfect ryhthmus to stroke my cock, so I forgot all my good resolutions and she made me happily come. Of course after I was not happy meeting Nardos 15 minutes later with empty balls and my intention was to have an excuse with her and to leave. Swedish massage 130 + 100 tip for Sahra.

Finally Nardos showed up at 6. Pm. Of course once I saw her I was tempted to go with her and we went to the room. Such a cutie. I phoned with her from Europe a few times from Europe before to keep her warm. She was such a good kisser and my only kisser with a massage girl, so she was a jewel for me. We kissed for halve an hour continuously, meanwhile she stroke my prick, and finally I wanked into her hand palm to take my sperm, but these are the old days. This time in the room she gave me her cheek for a kiss, not her lips when I stood before her.

I wondered what happened?

* She know I got massage form Sahra before, maybe she was upset?

* She got a boyfriend meanwhile?

* When we kissed she was just new (and innocent?) at the massage parlor, Now she learnt about men? Daily sex encounter in a massage saloon took her feeling for love? I guess its this.

Whatsoever she got also her period. She also said she would not stay that evening at the massage parlor, she would continue to visit a sick friend. She gave me massage, quiet and short, actually she is not good in medical massage, I doubt she went to massage school at all? She did not even touch my prick, but I also did not ask for it. I told her we better meet in 10 days, when I would be here again for some hours in town. But she looks cute and great. Room 200 birr, tip 100 birr and I left.

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Strange like happiness and youth from a session some time ago- can turn into a kind of rather and not interesting and dull encounter?

Encountering 4 girls in 4 different massage saloons in an afternoon and evening. Little sleep too, this this emotionally tiring and I was kind of confused, tracking and sorting out the stories after to write down. Actually writing down helps me to clear my head.

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Back in town 10 days later. 1 am. Taxi takes me from TeleBole street to "Hani Massage" for 100birr. I enter the reception room and Nardos is just sitting there in the big red armchair, just as having waited for me? Hey that starts good, we rush up the stairs to the room at the top. I like the couch covered with shiny golden bed sheet. Shower, I tell her to sit next to me. She looks great, but same as 10 days ago, she avoids my kisses. No long and deep and endless kissing any more, while stroking my cock as 10 month before! And she has no explanation for it, just raising shoulders. She starts a weak massage at the mattress. I tell her I want sex with her. She is reluctant, claims 1000 birr. I tell her I don't have. (actually I don't want, avoiding further disappointments). She proposes: to call other girl, but still to pay 400 (200 + 200). I get even more upset, she keeps me for stupid? I stop everything, got dressed, pay the minimum of 130birr at the receptionist (I even should have paid anything) and tell her that Nardos makes problems.

Ok. We have just to understand there is no guarantee in Life!

I walk over to "Rose Massage", the small lane next to Dreamliner Hotel, Mescalflower Road. Walking with fast steps at a dark road of 300 meters at 2 am Addis morning! Well, I have a whistle in my pocket, hope to chase any unpleasant approach, as they might not expect a white man whistling in the middle of a dark road?"Rose Massage" has shut down. But "Friendship Massage" is just 20 Meters before. I go along with a friendly (little chubby) girl who names her Meaza (she is pronouncing it like Mother). Friendly face, English, massage medium skill. I ask for sex, Yes 600 birr. No blow job. I decline. She gives extra, quiet good hand stroke and she looks at me very sweet all the time and I love her cute face. I tell her how sweet she is and she says " I love ferengies (foreigners)". Emotion / smile / talk: charming. Gave her 200 birr for aroma massage mattress and 200 tip, she does not count tip. She says there is no problem walking the dark road back to Meskal flower Road, and so it is.

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Habits can be quite annoying here in Ethiopia and its mentality! The evening before, ET airlines does not give me accommodation because the skinny employee he looks in the computer and finds a connection from Kenya to Europe with a shorter connection time than my 10 hours now. My argument that at the time of booking the short connection flight was fully booked, does not count for him. They offer me a transit Visa inclusive Hotel for 70€. I decline, I know my own Hotels for cheaper money, also I want to be quickly in town for the deed, not be waiting for a slow bus.

2nd story comes. Immigration, they refused to give me a tourist visa for 15€ because I am leaving in 10 hours later anyhow. I should return to ET Airlines and ask for a transit visa.

Stubborn? I get angry, show my resident cards which expired already 3 days ago. Finally the give me the visa I asked for.

Next morning 7 am at international departure hall. Am Thirsty, I see a full line of bottled water before me at the counter of the coffee shop, but they tell me to wait 15 minutes until the cashier comes. Hmm, this is international departure! I argue I have exact money, the can give me the receipt later, I will not run away. A 'no' comes.

Stubborn? I get angry, finally the water comes, and a receipt later.

And wasn't there another story? Yes again fighting for an accommodation in transit 10 days ago. Finally I got for one night, but not for the afternoon, as they argued I can take the 10 o clock morning flight to Kenya, no need to wait for the evening. It took from midnight to 3:30 am until I finally arrived at the Hotel, as application for a hotel voucher with ET are just so slow and annoying with ET! Ups girl at the Hotel reception tells me she will wake me up at 6 am, to take the bus back to the airport. I explain my flight will be late at night, I will stay the whole day in Addis Abeba. She says the papers says to bring me back in a few hours and thats what she is responsible.

Stubborn? It took me a lot of talking to convince her to let me sleep.

John

[Portacal]

Enjoy your trip man, I'm already jelous LOL, your making me miss Ethiopia already. Be sure to post some of your experiences.

This is going to be a fun trip.

Such beauty spotted amongst the cabin crew and the duty free.

Can't wait for my first outing.

[CorporateMalaya]

This is going to be a fun trip.

Such beauty spotted amongst the cabin crew and the duty free.

Can't wait for my first outing.

[Joel Gardner]

I will be travelling to addis in a few days and would like to know from my fellow mongers in addis if you have know fanta massage service. They advertise that they provide hotel services. Would appreciate if anyone would guide me about them.

[Too Jaded]

So after reading many of these reports I get the impression that these girls are dead scared of cum and condom use is absolutely mandatory for any and all contact, even blowjobs and handjobs. It seems that in many cases BJs are offered at all. Is this really so true? As much as I hate them I can understand the need for condoms for intercourse but no BBBJs? Really?

Reason I ask is I am trying to decide where my next vacation will be, and my research here is one of my primary factors.

Thanks to all of you who post.

- 2J

[Madossa]

I fly first time to Adis this week, anyone around there in the moment? Its a business trip, will stay a week or so in Adis.

[SceticoBlu]

Last month I had a two weeks stay in addis.

Accomodation:

Ankober 370 birr, piassa area, some music noise from the neighbourhood at night.

Bole Guesthouse 450 birr, the side away from the Atlas hotel is the better one as on the other side there is a bar with loud music at night.

Both are basic but you get what you pay. For this money I don't expect luxury.

The last day a taxi driver recommended me Lomi Guesthouse behind Arat Kilo in the direction of the Ras Amba hotel. I went there. It has solid rooms for 20 to 30 USD and a nice yard. Maybe next time I give this one a try.

Girl (s) :

I found my friend for the whole stay soon this time. She worked in a restaurant and was a 21 year old Oromia. She had a extremely slim body and had finished collage. Nevertheless her english skills where poorer than mine after two years secondary school. As a preparation for this trip I wanted to get to grips with the basics of amharic by watching youtube videos. In addition in addis I bought a book 'Amharic for beginners'. This decision was very wise. Ethiopians although mostly friendly people have a rather closed mentality and if one has some knowledge of their language they respond with sympathy.

When I tried to arrange the first date with my girl I only muttered three words in amharic: We – dinner – today? In my country when a stranger who will be 50 in a few years approaches in this way a 21 year old stunner, the girl would burst out in laughter. Not so her. She said: Yes – Thank you. And that is what I like about Africa. We had a nice time. She did not demand any money. Nevertheless occasionaly I give her some covered as a present. In addition she received perfumes and some clothes. The time we where not in bed she improved my amharic skills.

Climate:

Statistics suggest temperatures remain stable in addis throughout the whole year but this is false. After rainfalls it gets chilly. The days it did not rain it was like in a beautiful autumn day in may country.

As a conclusion the raining season (May to September) should be avoided not only for the rain, but also for the chilly temperatures.