Sick again but only for a day...I
know it was the Ethiopian food. Back on the bike the following day after a
truck ride to the lunch stop.
The landscape is beautiful and the
roads perfect and wide. The Chinese know how to make roads, they were
banked in such a way that you could cruise down a hill without braking for the
turn at the bottom.
It was obviously 'market' day and
looked quite festive. There was a mass exodus of people carrying bundles
on their heads and backs, donkeys were loaded up with bags of grain and cart
loads of goods, people were herding goats, cows and sheep, carrying live hens
and roosters (usually upside down with their feet bound and tied to a stick)
all heading in the same direction.
Kids and adults follow us to camp and watch us like we are a TV screen. They bring drinks and cookies for us to buy, I think they do quite well. A rope surrounds our camp and they are not to step inside. This is necessary because they will follow and crowd you and want to handle your bike and equipment. At least one armed (AK47) guy is hired to keep the locals away.
Beautiful and fun day. The roads were torn up in quite a few places.
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Women on the sick truck, having a blast and representing 5 decades (20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s)
Changing landscape: more trees, open water, small farms
Mass of people, animals and goods on their way to the market
At the forest camp
Onlookers at our camp
Armed guy hired to keep our bikes, etc. safe. Last year a couple of bikes disappeared overnight.
Teenager poses with his hen. The hen's legs are tied and a couple of minutes earlier it was being carried upside-down.
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