ETHIOPIA...Prehistory to Awasa...The Ascent of Man. The Ascent of Man...us Homo Sapiens...is presented in many ways...ascent from the dust of the earth... creation... evolution... and drinking coffee. We drank coffee first...well at the end of every repast ...after all we had advised our Guide we thought it was a coffee tour...and he did not disappoint. Served in small cups, black, strong, clean, one sugar...pure Ethiopian. Not muddy like Turkish or Middle Eastern. In the North, Ermias had led us to the finest coffee houses...the best being in a hut of banana leaves in the jungle on the banks of Lake Tana. Now that we are heading South from Addis Ababa with Gobeze, we are taken to prehistory and archeological sites...but will there still be good coffee??? Now for the history lesson. In about 1894 , Emperor
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