For a drive day, today has been very interesting. We set off from the Bale Mountains early this morning and drove down the mountains back into civilisation, sort of. The drive down from the mountains was amazing, for the most part we were above the clouds and the scenery was spectacular. We stopped about half way down, as all the trucks in front of us had stopped for a pee stop. The locals came up to the windows and offered us food. I tried the big donut like thi...

Another early start today as we got up at the crack of dawn to the see the "spectacular" view at the top of the mountains. We set off at 7am, on this funny little bus with tassels on the light fittings. We stopped about an hour into the trip so the driver could get his breakfast, Sarah told him off as we had already had ours. Memories of my time as a tour leader in Turkey came flooding back to me. Ah local labour, the chaos! We drove for about four hou...

I was up at what felt like the crack of dawn this morning, to make the people a packed lunch that were going on activities today. I had decided to go horse riding with Guy, Yngvar and Cate. Yesterday I asked our guide Daster for an old, fat horse, as the last time I was on a horse at Saqqara it just bolted, don't wish to relive that experience in Ethiopia. He told the guy bringing us the horses in Ahramaic, "Blah, Blah, Blah, Fat, Blah, Blah, Blah", the...

We were supposed to leave Wendo Gennet at 7am this morning, but we had a rather slow breakfast at the hotel, which held us up a little bit. We drove for most of the day again, up into the Bale Mountains. The road was terrible and for the most part not finished, we had to stop for bulldozers in front of the truck a few times. We drove through one town and spied Daster out the window and he jumped on and we took him with us. Small world. We stopped for lunch on t...

Today was a very long drive day. We drove down bad roads for the whole day. We stopped to shop at a place called Shesmeene. I attempted to go to an atm and let my group handle the shopping. The atm didn't work, I don't think I'm going to find a working atm until I get to Egypt now. We had lunch in a flash, due to the fact that the locals just swarm us whenever we stop. It took less than ten seconds for people to come and start watching us eat. We got into our c...