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Ethiopia: Bahar Dar to Lalibela. I got fleas.

Monday, August 6th, 2007

It took me a while, but I learned. Ethiopian bus rides are kind of like removing a band-aid. You can slowly tear it off and have constant pain for a long time, or you can just give it a yank, scream, and be done with it. What that correlates to on my Bahar Dar to Lalibela leg of my trip is that instead of taking the one 5:30am bus and riding it out for 14-16 hours, I broke it up and went small legs at a time using mini-buses and staying in little villages on the way. To break it down even farther, you get fleas.
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Photos: Bahar Dar- Blue Nile Falls

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Scene around the falls Hiking the trail to BN Falls
Just some scenery shots on the way to the falls.

Blue Nile Falls 1 Blue Nile Falls 2 Blue Nile Falls 3
The good old Blue Nile Falls or Tis Asis (Smoking water). It is at about 1/3 capacity because of the dam upstream. Occassionally they open up the gates and flood the place out, but didn’t get a chance to see it.

The girls dancing in the mist Me and the Econ students
Some local kids
Some people shots.

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Addis Ababa to Bahar Dar: Two days, what?

Monday, August 6th, 2007
I still can’t get over the fact that bus times in Ethiopia are often given in days not hours. For most people the Addis to Bahar Dar is a two day event, stopping off in a town called Debre ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Ethiopia: Prison bus surfing 101

Sunday, August 5th, 2007
So you want to know about riding Ethiopian buses? No, well tough because your going to hear about it. I like to spread my pain. 5am. Thats early morning. That's farmer time. That is a time ... [Continue reading this entry]

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I’m Back: Khartoum, Sudan, but first from where we left off.

Sunday, August 5th, 2007
Soooo, I was going to give up the good life and heading North to do the Historical circuit of Ethiopia. Leaving my cushey life in Addis and going prison bus surfing took a lot of self motivation. The Northern circuit ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Out of Office: heading north

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Okay, it's time to leave my cream puff, pizza, juice, cool temperature home. I will be heading North to visit the Northern Circuit of Ethiopia which is renowned for its historical and unique religious buildings. One church is ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Humility: I got scammed.

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
First I want to start out by telling how great at traveling I am. I have been traveling for over two years now and I have been attempted armed robbed twice and attempted strong armed twice. None of which ended ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Comment Responses

Wednesday, July 11th, 2007
Thanks to those who threw out a comment or two. Tinbit- Thank you for the t-shirt. I'll miss you at the cafe. Jimmy- I didn't have much time in Monkey Bay as I was hopping on the boat the morning after ... [Continue reading this entry]

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: More stuff through the eyes and mind of Steve.

Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Ahmeric is much different than the Latin based languages like English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, etc. Instead of an alphabet like we use, they have a 400 plus word alphabet that is based on all the sounds that ... [Continue reading this entry]

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End of Year Two: Well a International Year and an Ethiopian Year.

Thursday, July 5th, 2007
Okay, so to wrap it up. It’s now year two and a month, or a normal year and an Ethiopian 13 month year. I sort of forgot about the second year cycle. Oh well, I think I ... [Continue reading this entry]

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