Pack and leave taking our guide a short distance to look again for baboons
- none again. Then depart the area taking the most dramatic drive, (one of
me most favourite of the trip - later to be known as Happy Valley) four
hours to travel 15 kilometers through traditional villages. People come
out to stare at us and children give chase, this road rarely travelled by
car. We stop to give a lift to a little girl walking to school. An eight
or so kilometer, very steep walk.
Camels start to appear as the population becomes increasingly Muslim. Does
it say somewhere in the Koran?
Stop in Kombolcha for lunch, sheep meat + injera + beer, mmmm.
Continue this long drive to Dessie. A one street frontier town. A
ramshackle of buildings along a main street that is being re-built. How
much road works can one country undertake?! Hard to find hotel - no
booking. Settle for dodgy place where we ask, "is there hot water" ...to
answer of, "water comes on at eight". We assume incorrectly this means
yes. No one feels like dinner so we have movie night, 'I Am Legend', on
laptop - fun.
This has been a memorable day.
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