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So I was standing reading travel books at the bookshop one day, and end up reading up on Mt Kenya in LP's Trekking in East Africa. My mind turns to what else to do with the 3 months or so I will have: Kilimanjaro is much too expensive, Malawi sounds nice, there's a little section in the back on Ethiopia...
Despite many attempts at persuasion, nobody from our group has time or money to come. I end up in Ethiopia alone, and see so few other Farangis in Addis Ababa I despair of finding someone to go walking with, so leave my tent there. In Bahir Dar I run into Thomas, and the plan is back on track.
I've at last written up the story of this, so if you fancy more words with the pictures, go there and rejoin the show later.
We paid our fees and hired the obligatory scout (meaning guard) from the park office in Debark, heaved our packs and set off:
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A bridge just out of Debark |
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The first good view
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We reach Sankabar, our first night's stop. "Tomorrow, we're hiring a horse" |  |
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twisting mountain road, easy walking, and lots of birds |
like this 3m lammergeier |
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Onward to Geech camp
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and the next morning to a viewpoint called Imit Gogo |
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which lies on a headland jutting out from the escarpment. Pity it was midday. |
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Time
for the map, I suppose. The only one is produced by the University
of Berne, Switzerland (cde@giub.unibe.ch)
The Simiens are a North-facing escarpment with a drop from around 4000m down to 2000m. Debark (the park HQ) lies on the road from Gonder running North to Axum and Eritrea, off the left edge of this picture.
Then on Eastwards to Ras Dejen... >>>
| by Michael Abbott (email)
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