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May 22nd, 2010 | Africa

Donkeys…and the “Beasts” that burden them…

In Ethiopia, donkeys and horses are using to transport almost everything, by the majority of the population, who can’t afford trucks or smaller vehicles… If you think Botswana has a lot of donkeys, think again… I have seen guys tending herds of well over a hundred animals here… This post is not about the donkeys […]

May 20th, 2010 | Africa

The Political Road to Addis Ababa…

I was happy to leave Dilla, and head north again for Addis Ababa, the third highest capital city in the world… Ethiopia is a very mountainous country and although Dilla lies at roughly the same altitude as Johannesburg, it is considered to be in the “lowlands” of Ethiopia… Addis Ababa lies a further 750m higher […]

May 19th, 2010 | Africa

Into Ethiopia…

A rusty welcome to Ethiopia…

Things are done a little differently here. My first experience of this was the fact that although the Kenyan border opened at 6.00am, the Ethiopian Border, less than 100 metres away, only opens at 8.00am… In Kenya, like any other place in the modern world, it is the […]