Wildlife

We've seen a lot of African wildlife in recent weeks. Over a week ago, a large herd of camels passed through Yetebon. They were with a nomadic group of people from about 50 kilometers east of us, moving west in search of water. It was so surreal to be standing amongst a herd of the enormous creatures.

Then a week later, my good friends from ECHO days, Tom and Betsy, came to visit for a week before heading to Kenya to do graduate research. We took a road trip to Awassa, 300 kilometers south of Addis Ababa, where we saw lots of birds, a monitor lizard, and monkeys stole our breakfast!

On our way home, we stopped at a lake to scout out some hippos. Only saw one or 2 shy ones in the water, but still a uniquely African experience, being out in a row boat on a lake only about 40 feet from a hippo!

Only a month left in Ethiopia!! And then the dreaded farewells…Still lots of work to be done, though.