Day 137 – 138: Jungle Junction to Castle Forest Lodge, Mt Kenya
We didn’t set an alarm and only got up after 08:00. It took quite some time to pack despite all the packing and planning of yesterday. Finally, at 11:00 we fitted everything inside and on [...]
Day 134 – 136: Jungle Junction for the third time
We stayed at Jungle Junction for three more nights to sort everything out, to do some shopping and to get to know our new travel companions. Daniel is from Germany and went to visit is [...]
Day 133: Lalibela to Nairobi – The day of delays
We got up at 07:00 again and packed our bags. By 07:20 were sitting in the restaurant and ordered Ethiopian bread with honey. By 07:50 it had still not arrived. Just as our driver came [...]
Day 131 – 132: Gondar to Lalibela
We got woken by a knock on the door from the receptionist who said our car is waiting outside - 30 minutes to early. We got dressed and packed up in 10 minutes. We both [...]
Day 128 – 130: Simien Mountains Trek
We got up at 06:15 and packed our bags. By 06:30 the power came on so we plugged in our phones, but somehow the hot water still didn't work. We went down for breakfast and [...]
Day 127: Bahir Dar to Gondar
We didn't set an alarm, but got up around 07:00. Caro was still not feeling well, but we packed up and had a quick scrambled egg and toast breakfast for R22. We then walked to [...]
Day 125 – 126: Addis Ababa to Bahir Dar
The alarm went off at 03:45, but it didn't really wake us up, because we were basically awake the whole night due to one or two mosquitoes and the creaking bed and hard cushions. By [...]
Day 124: Addis Ababa
Caro woke up early to do the last finishing touches on her assignment before submitting it. Hugo slept until passed 09:00. We decided we would stay another night at the guesthouse instead of trying to [...]
Day 123: Nairobi to Addis Ababa
Our alarm went off at 06:00. We got up and took showers, closed the tent and packed everything away. At 06:50 we requested and Uber and then went to park the car and lock everything. [...]