Tuesday 24th

Early start, Driver picks us up at 5:45 and we re-trace out route back to Gashema, Lovely to see the sun rise, mountains in morning light silhouette. The most bumpiest road of all today, 10 hours of bone rattling fun at 3000 meters. Lots of crashes seen today!

Arrive Gonder at 4pm, call home. Go for walk into town. Gonder is very cosmopolitan, cafés everywhere, people here used to seeing farange (glowing white people).

Often, walking down the street in Ethiopia is like a scene out of Deadwood, drunks, hookers, horse & donkey wranglers, people trying to sell you stuff, bodies lying in gutter, buildings falling down, the noise, music ...everything.

Tim & Ollie stop for coffee, then catch kurr-kurr home. Meet Jimal who is picking us up for the REAL treck of this trip; into the Simian mountains, to 4430 meters. We have to take a live sheep for dinner!?

Early start. We're out of touch now till next weekend.

Updated blog today. On keyboard with the letters painted on in white out! Stand Tim and Japi up for dinner. Google home page takes 15 seconds to load.

xx miss you all. O.