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4 May - The world's largest teacup - Lake Langano

5/18/2011

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  4 May, Wednesday    Lake Langano

‘rwaauuo’, rwaauuo’ is the sound that wakes us up before sunrise – definitely a bird we’ve not seen before. Willie makes us coffee and we go on a hike to explore and to watch birds. Sammie is very excited about all the freedom and space he has and sniffs and explores with us. It was the Morning Dove that woke us up with it’s rolling chirr-chuckling sound. Several new birds are added to our fast growing list.

Lake Langano has a brown-red color and is referred to as the ‘world’s largest cup of tea.’ It is one of very few lakes that one can swim in, because it is bilharzia free. With the water so close by I decide to tackle our dirty clothes and Hugo and Andrej bring fresh water when I need it.  

We meet Tim from Michigan. He and his wife, Miriam, are managing the bungalows and campsite for a year. The property belongs to Miriam’s parents, who were second generation missionaries to Ethiopia. Miriam graduated from Rift Valley Academy in 2005, missionary school in Kenya, similar to Black Forest, where Hugo and Andrej went. She then went to Hope College in MI where she met Tim and they got married in June of 2010. Miriam’s parents returned to the States to take care of elderly parents and Tim and Miriam came to Ethiopia to help on the lakeside property.

We meet Miriam later in the afternoon and had a wonderful visit with them. They stayed for dinner – ‘potjie’ and the young people stayed on around the fire talking and sharing very similar experiences and lives.

We had a most enjoyable and peaceful day in the gentle hollow of nature’s hand. We will decide whether we will leave tomorrow morning.

See Gallery for Pictures - Lake Langano

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    Caren

    "There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne - bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive. One only feels really free when one can go in whatever direction one pleases over the plains, to get to the river at sundown and pitch one's camp, with the knowledge that one can fall asleep
    beneath other trees, with another view before one, the next night." -
     Karen Blixen - Out of Africa, Kenya
    'Of course as I am reading this, I know that you DO get your visas and the container DOES get released, but oh the internal struggle we face even though we should trust (as Hugo does) that God has His hands on all things and is constantly taking care of us.'


    From a Friend:
    :) Crazy to think that we are ALL made of blood, bone and water yet we speak in so many tongues that getting along together becomes a massive task within itself.

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