A four hour walk to start the day, with two impressive waterfalls at the end. Ian is getting very proficient with the bins, and saw twelve different birds in only the first ten minutes. In fact, the birds were so colourful and interesting that even I was becoming quite passionate about them. Walking through endless green vegetation and tall trees of many different types, even sometimes through mini forests of false banana.
In the afternoon, we visited the Awassi orphanage for children, which actually was very interesting. Maybe 70-80? having a great time with such things as a good old tug of war contest, and the Ethiopian version of the egg and spoon race. All of this with thunder threatening all around and then, of course, yet another deluge. Staff did manage to give as a guided tour - they do a lot of vocational training in metal and woodwork, plus computers (40 provided by the German embassy) - Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Publisher - reminded me of U3A with Dave and Maggie!
Then on to Shashemene, where we booked into a rather impressive (at least for Ethiopia) hotel. Surely this couldn't be true? It wasn't - no water. Promised for later that evening, but nothing materialised. In compensation, had beautiful five favoured fruit juice (so thick the straw stood upright), followed by lamb - so tender it did quite literally almost fall off the bone. I cannot remember when I last had meat of any kind that tasted so good. Water back on in time for well needed shower.
NB.
Shashemene is the unofficial capital of Rastafarianism. (Heile Selassie's name before his coronation was Ras Tafari - geddit???)
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