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7 May Saturday Baboons and birds

5/18/2011

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7 May 2011    Saturday   Arba Minch
 
We wake up curious to know what it looks like where we are camping as it was dark when we arrived last night. Our campsite is on a plato with a stunning panoramic view over the Rift Valley and 2 large lakes far below us. We soon have a few baboon guests very interested in Sammie’s movements andSammie cannot believe what he is seeing. We have to keep a close watch on him, because the baboons sit around ready to run over and grab what they can put
  their hands on. Willie took great pictures of the sunrise, baboons and birds.
  See gallery: Arba Minch

Andrej wakes up, looking very pale, weak and washed out. He did
not throw up again and we decide to take it easy to give him a chance to
  replenish fluids and recover. We drive down to the town to see if we can find a market where we can buy food. The prices of pasta and tuna are ridiculous and it is not worth trying to cook our own food. It is far cheaper to eat in a local restaurant, but now we have 2 non-Ethiopian-food partakers and in a town this small we are not going to find any Western food. Hugo enquires from several restaurants and they only have Ethiopian food. We decide we will eat at the hotel’s restaurant as it is the only place that serves ‘normal’ food, although it is pricier.

 Andrej gradually feels better, but one can see he is far from well, yet. We are still not sure what has caused this? I know one thing –I’ve never seen anyone expel poison from his body as violently as what happened to Andrej.

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    "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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