Day 48- Dejen -20/11/12

A day spent driving half way to Addis Ababa (or of course simply Addis, as we locals call it). Mostly good Tarmac road, but still slow. Stopped off for lunch, and Anne-Marie expertly snapped a snake capturing a gekko (had to move on before knowing if he managed to eat it).

As yet again, beautiful countryside, this time a miriad patchwork of fields, rolling into the distance for mile after mile after mile. At last, we no longer seem to be in "gum" territory, but trees to be in almost all coniferous (so indigenous?)

Dinner tonight was a definite change from last night's flash spa, where our bread rolls were wrapped in banana leaves, fires burnt brightly in the corners of the room etc etc, but ridiculously cheap , and still very tasty.

Here is Pip and Ian's famous shot of "their" leopard from the Simien mountains - they are both understandably very proud of this, so I thought it should be added to the blog.