by admin | Aug 6, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We left the simien mountain lodge today as planned in order to head out of Ethiopia and into the Sudan. Our route took us via Gonder where we needed to get petrol and after searching every station in town had our first experience with the black market fuel dealers who...
by admin | Aug 5, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
The road to Debark from Axum turned out to be worse than we anticipated. Whilst the drive itself is magnificent from a scenery perspective, there are roadwork’s going on, on the mountain passes that just make the roads a mess and barely passable. The fact that...
by admin | Aug 4, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We left Mekhele at 7am because we wanted to get to Axum by Lunch time to enable us to spend the afternoon seeing the sites as we are only here for 1 night. The ride to Adrigat from Mekhele was littered with the usual mountain passes however, from Adrigat to Axum the...
by admin | Aug 3, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We left Lalibela at 7am. It rained during the night so I was feeling a little trepidation at the condition of the first 100km of gravel that we were going to have to tackle because the soil here goes like slime when wet…well, the trepidation was well placed. It took 2...
by admin | Aug 2, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
Today was a day at rest which started later than usual and gave us an opportunity to explore the remainder of the Lalibela churches. These structures and the engineering behind them did not disappoint and continue to fascinate with their beauty, simplicity and...
by admin | Aug 1, 2010 | Cape to Cairo 2010, Diary Archive
We left Bahir Dar for Lalibela at 7am this morning in the hope that we would not ride in the rain because we were advised that it only rains in the afternoon and evening…well, so much for that!! The ride to Lalibela was breathtaking and the further north that we...
