Ethiopia

Ethiopia is an amazing country, never colonised (the Italians tried) with appalling roads. We headed to Gondar, visited the castles there, and then drove North to the Simien mountains. Once there we trekked for 3 days seeing huge troups of Simien 'baboons', lamagayer eagles, simien foxes and struggled in the 3000m+ air. From there we drove for days to Addis Abbaba - a beautiful city - where we spent a few days relaxing, shaving and getting clean. Wherever we camped loads of people would appear from nowhere and surround our tents each morning making truck security a bit of a problem. The country is full of people - 60 million of them - and after a couple of weeks we drove south towards Kenya.