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To the coast

  By Ian M Packham June 7, 2012 March 2, 2021 Africa, Encircle Africa, Ethiopia, Latest, Somaliland
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The road from Harar to Jijiga passes through the Valley of Marvels. The hills are made up of vertical shafts of rock that peak through the green of low shrubs like megalithic stones of Stonehenge or Malta. They rest on and against one another in different states of freedom, some… Continue reading

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Hurrah for Harar

  By Ian M Packham June 4, 2012 March 2, 2021 Africa, Encircle Africa, Ethiopia, Latest
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This isn’t the place to go into the dull complexities of modern visa application processes. Its enough to say things were simpler when consular permission from 5 European powers would have seen me through the entire continent. Awaiting Egyptian permission from the Addis embassy, I pitch east in search of… Continue reading

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Alive and rested

  By Ian M Packham May 29, 2012 March 2, 2021 Africa, Encircle Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Latest
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The past week has been my final designated ‘rest week’. I’ve been doing 2 things: wandering around the Ethiopian hinterland trying to find something interesting (not necessarily an easy task in such a vast country), and also fighting off the world’s worst cold. I suspect I caught the virus on… Continue reading

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Entering Ethiopia

  By Ian M Packham May 21, 2012 March 2, 2021 Africa, border, Encircle Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Latest
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Without access to visas at either the embassy in Nairobi or the border town of Moyale it means Ethiopia is a closed country for North-bound overland travellers. Moyale is nowhere near as grim as I had been led to believe. Its quite picturesque surrounded by green and hills. All the… Continue reading

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Moving on, or trying to

  By Ian M Packham May 18, 2012 March 2, 2021 Africa, border, Encircle Africa, Ethiopia, Kenya, Latest, visa
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Some days Africa grinds you down. And some days Africa rips your heart out. Having been searched thoroughly I wait over an hour in the Ethiopian embassy Consular Section to be told I could not be given a visa because I didn’t have a re-entry pass for Kenya. ‘I’m not… Continue reading

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