June 17, 2012. After 20 gruesome hours we made it to Ethiopia last Friday. We spent the first two nights in Moyale and then with an overnight stop in Hawassa headed for the capital.
As you can see I needed some time to recuperate – and Addis Ababa proved a wonderful place to do so.
Tomorrow we’ll get back on the bus for the classic Northern Ethiopia route: Bahir Dar (and the monasteries of Lake Tana), Lalibela, Mek’ele, Axum, Debark, Gonder.
Visiting the Gorillas in Bwindi Impenetrable Forest NP, Uganda
Here's a look back into my travel diaries: In 2012, I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit the gorillas in Africa. I once saw a monkey - Gorilla Trekking in Uganda I was not going to see the gorillas. I was not
Navigating Cinque Terre by boat, train, bus and on foot
The UNESCO World heritage site most people know simply as Cinque Terre is much more than just five villages on the Ligurian coast. There is also Portovenere, where I stayed for four nights, and Isola Palmaria, both at the mouth
Taormina, Sicily, to Tarn Region, France (via Rome, Barcelona & Toulouse)
I had only been on Sicily for two weeks when it became necessary for me to go back to France to visit friends in the Tarn region. My initial instinct was to catch the ferry from Palermo to Genova and