Place: Moyale
Tunes: Random tunes
Green scenery.
More green scenery.
I did not know you could buy car parts from a Spar shop.
Then they sell stuff for spears not 20 meters away from the other shop! What's next, a Spar shop selling spares for spears?
This is what you see every time you stop. What you hear is "give me money".
Today was a shorter day. Calm before the storm I guess. Nothing special driving-wise. More of the same pretty much.
Five of us did some more off road excursions where everything went as usual. Sand roads and a short ride to a lake. What could go wrong? As usual with these excursions, there was a drop/crash thing. No major damage but unnecessary drama and a chance for some major drama.
We met a tribe (?) bathing in a lake inside what turned out to be a national park. The guard to the park with a rifle wanted money before he let us out. Getting into the park was fine. Classic! Shortly after this, a kid ran over with a spear and told me to ”give me the money”. I told him to fuck off and drove away. So, business as usual in Ethiopia.
We ended up in this hotel in Moyale after sorting out the border formalities out of Ethiopia (we are still in Ethiopia). No problems with those. It was good that we could do this today rather than on tomorrow morning.
I also had a flat on the hotel courtyard. The path there went through a construction site/junkyard and of course there were many nails there. One of which went through my rear tire. No problem. A quick change that has become routine for us adventurers.
Around the same time we met Richard travelling solo from Cape town to Cairo. He had just crossed the road we were going to cross tomorrow and he gave us some useful advice on the condition of the roads we would see in the near future. Not all of it was positive you could say. The road tomorrow will be the manliest road ever and we shall see who lives to tell the tales after...
Tunes: Random tunes
Green scenery.
More green scenery.
I did not know you could buy car parts from a Spar shop.
Then they sell stuff for spears not 20 meters away from the other shop! What's next, a Spar shop selling spares for spears?
This is what you see every time you stop. What you hear is "give me money".Today was a shorter day. Calm before the storm I guess. Nothing special driving-wise. More of the same pretty much.
Five of us did some more off road excursions where everything went as usual. Sand roads and a short ride to a lake. What could go wrong? As usual with these excursions, there was a drop/crash thing. No major damage but unnecessary drama and a chance for some major drama.
We met a tribe (?) bathing in a lake inside what turned out to be a national park. The guard to the park with a rifle wanted money before he let us out. Getting into the park was fine. Classic! Shortly after this, a kid ran over with a spear and told me to ”give me the money”. I told him to fuck off and drove away. So, business as usual in Ethiopia.
We ended up in this hotel in Moyale after sorting out the border formalities out of Ethiopia (we are still in Ethiopia). No problems with those. It was good that we could do this today rather than on tomorrow morning.
I also had a flat on the hotel courtyard. The path there went through a construction site/junkyard and of course there were many nails there. One of which went through my rear tire. No problem. A quick change that has become routine for us adventurers.
Around the same time we met Richard travelling solo from Cape town to Cairo. He had just crossed the road we were going to cross tomorrow and he gave us some useful advice on the condition of the roads we would see in the near future. Not all of it was positive you could say. The road tomorrow will be the manliest road ever and we shall see who lives to tell the tales after...
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