When we made a sanitary stop, we noticed that it's still hot, like in the Omo region. For the huts along the road the people used also plastics and not only natural materials as the people in the Omo region still do.
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 | Road from Yavelo to Moyale   |  | |
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 |  on July 10, 2004 |
After our trip to the Lower Omo Valley with its dusty and bumpy tracks, we reached the tarred road in Yavelo. Our truck could drive so fast, heading south to Moyale and the Kenyan border, that we needed our fleeces in the open backside. When we made a sanitary stop, we noticed that it's still hot, like in the Omo region. For the huts along the road the people used also plastics and not only natural materials as the people in the Omo region still do. |
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| Stelae south of Lake Langano | | |
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| on July 10, 2004 |
South of Lake Langano we saw first a lot of colourfully painted Islamic graves near the villages and houses. I could recognised them, because I had seen a replica in the Ethnological Museum in Addis Abeba. Later we made a stop, to have a look at some stelae just west of the highway from Lake Langano to Shashemene. You have to know the place, because they are not very well recognisable from the road because of the natural colours. Some of the stelae were carved with symbols. |
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| Moyale, bordertown  | | |
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| on July 10, 2004 |
Coming from Yavelo, we reached Moyale the bordertown with Kenya around midday. At both sides of the border the bordertown is named Moyale. We took our lunch at the Ethiopian side in one of the bars along the main road and succeeded to find people to change our last Ethiopian Birr in Kenyan Shillings in the meantime. Passing the Ethiopian and Kenyan formalities at the border took about two hours. The hotels and restaurants in the Kenyan Moyale are better, allthough we spent the night at the campsite in Kenyan Moyale with very basic facilities and without any water. |
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| Ethiopians | | |
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 |  on August 25, 2006 |
Ethiopians are usually tall and thin. You can find some that are very beautiful, specially women in the south, near Somalia. Most are friendly and many people approach to you in the streets, though 80% are after some tip after guiding you here or there, or showing you his cousin shop. Most young people speak english, though sometimes very basic. |
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| Carved Stelae south of Lake Langano | | |
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| on July 10, 2004 |
In an area of about 200KM from Tiya in the north to Dila in the south are several places, where you can find the ancient stelae. The largest stones are about 2 M high. Like the standing stones in Europe, also these stones are mysterious, because nothing is known of the meaning and purpose. Also the engraved enigmatic symbols ar intriguing |
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| Camels along the road to Moyale | | |
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| on July 10, 2004 |
In the Omo region we didn't see camels, like we did a lot in the northern part of Ethiopia. But on our way to the south and the Kenyan border in the dry areas we saw regularly camels again. Also in the north of Kenya the people use a lot of camels. |
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| Money, Telefon, Internet, Time | | |
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 |  on September 4, 2004 |
Money – No credit cards are accepted except in expensive hotesl in Addis Ababa! There are ATMs but they only accept cards of Ethiopian banks. Telefon – Mobilfon network is only in Addis Ababa and Bahir Dar but not for Vodafon. Long distance calls are available from Telcommunication offices and privat phlone shops and cost about 3 $ a minute. Internet – In April 2004 there had been only two servers in the country and so it was more expensive the further you are away from the server. The cheapest places were in the capital where it cost about 0.20 Birr a minute Time - Ethiopians have there own time, counting from sunrise to sunset so that a day only has 12 hours. 6 am European time is 0.00 o`clock, midday is 6 o`clock and 6pm is 12 o`clock Ethiopian time! Clear? |
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| Art | | |
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| on September 4, 2006 |
Art lovers have a good reason to visit Ethiopia. In every little church or monastery you will find these amazing examples of religious art, scenes from the Bible, saints and local legends. It is not only something of the past, new churches have their own paintings, though I personally prefer those with a few centuries on it. |
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| Green | | |
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| on September 4, 2006 |
In spite of a (wrong) general impression, Ethiopia is not a dry endless desert. All the north part of the country is mountanious, green and beautiful. Some parts, as the Simien Mountains, make an ideal scenary for trekking and hiking. |
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| Sleeping with monks | | |
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| on September 4, 2006 |
In the same house I mean... I experienced it when I was at Debre Damo monastery, near Axum. You can stay overnight here, and will be hosted by one of the monks. None of them speak english at all, so is better to come with a local guide from Axum or Adigrat, he will act as interpreter. Monks live in rather spartan huts, with dusty grounds and just a bed and some chairs. They have very few belongings and they keep all of them in holes in the walls that act as wardrobes. Some houses have their own dwell, from where thay take "drinkable" water (from the rains) and make baptism ceremonies. When I arrived, "my" monk offered us injhera and local beer as welcome and we chated about how their life was up there. He had even travelled to Israel in a sort of exchange with israeli orthodox monks of Jerusalem. When he say my backpack and sleeping bag he said: "I even have a sleeping bag", he went to the other room and brought a potatoes sack that he uses as "matress" when he goes abroad sleeping on the floor... that's ascetism! I slept on the wooden bed that you can see in the background in the pic. He put some goat skins on top and that made a surprisingly comfortable matress. When he turned off the oil candle, the silence and obscurity was total. I woke up for "biological necessities" in the middle of the night (hard task if you don't have a torch light) and the sky was the starriest I had ever seen! |
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