Spontaneous Travels

Bahir Dar was a nice enough, quiet, lakeside town where we relaxed for two days. It is also located close to the source of The Blue Nile, so one day we went to see The Blue Nile Falls. They were pretty albeit not as powerful as they once were, our impression was slightly hampered due to it being dry-season but also because a hydro-electric has been built nearby, minimising the flow of water. After our time here, we took a very delayed bustrip back to the world's third highest located capital where we reaquainted with our brothers and other travellers we've met in the country, and just kicked back for a few days. Back in Addis I was also reminded how small the world is, when I bumped into Theo, a friend I know from Stockholm. Unfortunatly our travel iteneraries were opposite and he was making his way back north  to Europe as we were moving south. Or at least our original plan was to move south, but then one morning we woke up and decided to go east instead with a group of people heading for Somaliland. The gang consisted of two Australians: Oliver and Mitchell, Austrian: Danyal, Singaporean: Paul and us two Swedes. After reaching Harar, Mitchell decided to slow down for a while, while the remaining five of us caught a few different cramped vehicles before finally crossing the Somaliland border and reaching it's capital Hargeisa.