Once there was a dog, a goat and a donkey. They wanted to go on a journey together, and decided to take a taxi. The donkey paid and got out, the dog paid, got out but never got its change, and the goat got out but never paid.
To this day, and whenever a vehicle passes, the dog still chases his change, the goat scatters at the first approach, and the donkey just plods tranquilly on.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ethiopian folk tale
This is from the Lonely Planet guide to Ethiopia & Eritrea (with information on travelling to Djibouti and Somaliland).
There are two comprehensive guides to Ethiopia, Lonely Planet and Bradt. I found both to be excellent, well written, and make for entertaining reads (there's tons of anecdotes and some great humour to be found in both).
The Bradt guide is a lot more comprehensive (which may be a disadvantage if you just want summarised information), and more accurate in places. The Bradt guide's 6th edition also just hit shelves at the time I'm writing this (November 2012), and as a result it is a lot more up to date than Lonely Planet. I have bought and consult both regularly, and a lot of the information in this blog is lifted directly from them.
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