enjoy tour

Reached Lake Awasa with relative ease where I planned to break up the two day journey, chilled out, had my first Injera (the local dish which is a big silver tray covered with a large rubbery bread/pancake-like thing with spicy veg concoctions in small piles on the top, that you eat with your hands - sounds nasty but nice). The start of a lovely relationship on the food front - in African terms! I’m a big fan of chilli and also like actual flavour in my food so it was a very nice surprise from the familiar beans and rice I know so well. The next morning, 5am of course which seems to be the standard for bus departure, I got on a big bus this time and travelled to Arba Minch. This journey was a lot more bumpy, I’d sadly left those comfortable tarmac roads for the rest of my trip south! The 6 hour journey was a long 6 hours and because I was late getting on the bus I had to sit one row from the back - which means extra bumpy. Behind me was a guy with an AK47 gun casually rested behind my head, I had an upright plastic hard seat and in front of me was about 10cm of leg room. Next to me were 3 more people which made 4 on a 3 person seat. Nothing totally abnormal. I started to realise that there weren’t many independent travellers in Ethiopia (well in the south anyway), particularly solo white girls on public transport so while nothing aggressive at all, I definitely had the ugly alien feeling. We passed through various villages and it was good to be out the city and back into rural Africa, mud huts painted with more decor than I normally see. With music in my ears I was quite happy and somehow in my less than very uncomfortable seat and very bumpy road I managed to squeeze in a couple of hours sleep. Nice. READ MORE...http://bigbeyond-blog.blogspot.com