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From Ambikwo we retrace our steps down a bit, then turn off to Arkwasiye, where we sleep in a haystack. Next morning we finally drop down into the lowlands, down a never-ending steep winding path.
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across a stream,
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Looking back towards Ras Dejen |
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The first other Farangis, at Arkwasiye. Their tent is quite a curiosity...
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Thomas provides something better: English lessons! |
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The next morning we walk down a bit to the escarpment lip |  |
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then start a 1000m descent:
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the vegetation changes gradually, |
we get held up behind a cowboy,
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and eventally reach the bottom. |
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We swapped cool days with freezing nights for hot sticky days and cool nights; open grassland for thick thorny bush, cleared in places for farming.
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Warm evening around the fire
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and hot, sticky walking |
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lots of stops in the shade |
Tea shop (with sugar - we'd run out) at Awasa, 1/2 a day's walk from the road at Adi Arkay.
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Group shot, and my last Simien sunset |
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Maybe it doesn't quite fit...
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Pre-sunrise over the mountains around Awasa. It was an eventful night:
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we got stampeded by a herd of sheep, which Thomas didn't hear coming as he was listening to the radio (this was when the fascists got into government in Austria)
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One morning's walk brought us to Adi Arkay, on the road north from Gonder to Asmara (on the Red Sea, now in Eritrea.) A day later I'm back in brightly-painted Gonder, from where I flew to Lalibela >>>.
| by Michael Abbott (email)
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