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February 2nd 2014
Published: February 2nd 2014
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Greetings from Nairobi. What a culture shock - totally different from Gondar. The first thing I did when I arrived yesterday was walk to a shop and buy a diet coke. Bliss! The house I am staying in is lovely, comfortable and CLEAN. There is even someone employed to do the cooking. Result! It has wifi too! Enough about Nairobi for now. This blog is my final one about Ethiopia. I left Gondar 9 days... Read Full Entry



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Volcanic rock
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Descending the volcano
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Descending the volcano
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Camels carrying slabs of salt from the "Red sea lake" which has a NaCl concentration of 55%!! A bit salty then!
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Camels and donkeys carrying salt
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A camel caravan
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"Red Sea lake"
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"Red Sea lake"
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"Red Sea lake"
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"Red Sea lake"
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Driving over the salt lake
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Driving over the salt lake
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Camp 3
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The best (and only) hotel in town! Didn't get a chance to look inside.
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Volcanic sulphur fields. One big fume cupboard.
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Bubbling sulphur. Seeing as the boiling point of sulphur is 444.6 C and sulphuric acid is 337 C it is safe to say that you wouldn't want to put your hand in this stuff
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Apparently a few weeks/months ago a tourist fell over in this stuff and is still in Cairo being treated for severe burns
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Volcanic sulphur fields
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Anyone smell rotten eggs?



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