Just hard to believe how fast the time gets away from you on a trip like this. One country after another, difficulty accessing e-mail, late nights and early mornings. I can’t even remember the last time I posted a blog – though I’m seeing new and different things each day. Just came in from Kenya, which was a pleasure to return to after having lived there. I was supposed to go to Somalia with another agency, from Nairobi, but the trip fell through at the last second, which stranded me there and cost me an extreme week of travel for this whole trip. In the end, I booked a flight out to Masai Mara – home to the world’s largest migration of animals each year as up to 3 million wildebeest pour in from Tanzania to feed on the grasses the new rain brings. I went every year that I lived in Kenya, and it is still an amazing spectacle to see. It was also a much needed break after 7 strait weeks without a single day off.
Arrived in Ethiopia Thursday morning, and have really only done one day of work here yet. Head upcountry tomorrow to a place called Dira Dawa, down south, and I’ll be shooting photos down there until Thursday, then off to Zambia. Came often to Ethiopia when I lived in Kenya – and in fact it was one of the first trips I ever took when I started with CRS in 1996. It’s a fascinating country – very different from much of sub-Saharan Africa in many ways, chiefly that it’s never really been colonized, save for a brief spell of Italian occupation before and during World War II. Still, remarkably impoverished, and totally deforested in many areas, which causes all of the usual problems.
Talk of Darfur at the end of this trip now, with another agency. We’ll see if that pans out. It’s a hard place to get into these days. But set, today, to start the last big leg of the trip after more than 2 months on the road.
September 23rd, 2007 | by David in Uncategorized
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