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Essential Addis Ababa
Luxury hotel
★★★★★Sheraton Addis
Taitu Street, Addis Ababa
6.4 km to airport4 km from Bole
Sheraton Addis is a 5-star Luxury Collection hotel located on a hilltop next to the National Palace in Addis Ababa. The property features 295 rooms, private villas, 11 dining and lounge venues, conference facilities, and outdoor pools with underwater music.
Museum
National Museum of Ethiopia
Arat Kilo, Addis Ababa
The National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa is a premier cultural repository famous for housing prehistoric hominid fossil displays such as Lucy and Selam. It features extensive historical, archaeological, artistic, and ethnographic exhibits detailing Ethiopia's rich past from antiquity to the modern era.
Café
Tomoca Coffee
Piassa, Addis Ababa
Tomoca Coffee is Ethiopia's historic first coffee roasting company, founded in 1953 in Addis Ababa. Its flagship branch on Wavel Street in Piassa offers freshly brewed Ethiopian coffee and ground coffee to take home in a lively, standing-only setting.
Market
Merkato
Addis Ketema, Addis Ababa
Merkato is a sprawling, historic open-air marketplace in the Addis Ketema district of Addis Ababa, celebrated as the largest outdoor market in Africa. It features thousands of stalls selling everything from spices and coffee to textiles, handicrafts, and recycled goods, providing an authentic look into the city's commercial life.
Viewpoint
Entoto Park
Entoto Hills, Entoto
Entoto Park is a scenic highland nature and recreational park on Mount Entoto offering panoramic views over Addis Ababa. Inaugurated in 2020 as part of the Beautifying Sheger Project, it combines walking trails and lush forests with modern cafes, viewpoints, sports centers, and cultural attractions.
Lake
Bishoftu Crater Lakes
Bishoftu, Bishoftu
The Bishoftu Crater Lakes are a cluster of scenic volcanic lakes located around the town of Bishoftu in central Ethiopia. Renowned for their steep volcanic basins, diverse birdlife, and recreational boating, they also center cultural importance as the gathering grounds for the annual Irrecha thanksgiving ceremony.