The pulse of Ethiopia By Cayo Coco A traveller went across the country to get underneath the surface of Ethiopia, peel back its layers to see what lies beneath - in search for the essence of Ethiopia. 'Seeing is believing', the big billboard read with a picture of new luxurious houses. In front of it, a man was lying lifeless on the street. I was walking on the street of Addis Ababa searching for the essence of Ethiopia. I Looked round. Addis Ababa is a city of contrasts: new commercial buildings alongside shacks, donkeys alongside 'Lada Taxis' and beg [View Full Entry]

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THE LIFE of a wanderer; you respond to the call of the open road. It's inevitable. Tireless, you keep an open mind and look sideways...and the journey takes you by surprise. All the discoveries...become travel memoirs dotted along the trail like pearls on a string...your mind wanders as much as your passport. The journey goes further and deeper than you ever imagined. You know no boundaries. And you turn on the open road, and you smile, because there you realize, it's not the end, but just the beginning. You continue with the courage that has accompanied you the entire distance. Th [View Full Entry]

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain AS you move towards the horizon and travel beyond it - you realize that it's all an illusion - that there is no horizon - that there are only the boundaries you set for yourself. And if you keep pushing your boundaries - there are no limits for where you could go or for [View Full Entry]

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Travelling is my oxygen. Travelling is a captivating dialogue between the world and yourself. It awakens you - your senses - and makes you see anew. It opens the doors to undiscovered landscapes. Even the most common aspects of your life become re-focused through the lense of the unfamiliar. As Henry Miller once said, 'One's destination is never a place but a new way of seeing things.' And that makes me fall in love with the world all over again. The great affair is the constant journey of discovery. There is always further to go. And not knowing where it all [View Full Entry]

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...So you return from your trip to wherever you came from, and you already have your mind on the next destination and planning the next place to explore. This uncontrollable impulse to travel...it's incurable. Your feet start tripping and you know that you have to travel again in order to satisfy your insatiable curiousity and hunger for exploring. The journey continues... Cayo Coco www.globalwriter.info [View Full Entry]

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