Gypsy Biker

I was happy to leave Dilla, and head north again for Addis Ababa, the third highest capital city in the world… Ethiopia is a very mountainous country and although Dilla lies at roughly the same altitude as Johannesburg, it is considered to be in the “lowlands” of Ethiopia… Addis Ababa lies a further 750m higher [...]

Things are done a little differently here. My first experience of this was the fact that although the Kenyan border opened at 6.00am, the Ethiopian Border, less than 100 metres away, only opens at 8.00am… In Kenya, like any other place in the modern world, it is the year 2010. In Ethiopia, it is 2002… [...]