Now it makes sense How stupid of me not to understand that. I am not the sharpest tool in the box... I would think they eat the meat but the crocodiles are farmed mainly for their skin. It's not primarily a food farm. /Ake
Great photos...Great memories The images may be digitalised from slides but hey...they are great. Must be fantastic to have preserved your memories and by blogging it now, the memories must be flooding back.
The Mursi A fascinating tribe to be sure. When we were there in 2011, the Mursi had recently been forcibly relocated from next to the river to a dry inhospitable area in the Mago National Park to a make way for dams on the Omo River. My blog "Ethiopia: Stretched Lips & AK47s" dealt with the relocation issues.Their new site was depressing in the extreme. Can you recall whether their village you visited in 2005 was next to the river and did they aggressively collect money (birr) for photos?
Ethiopia 2005 Fascinating to read of your time in my "jewel of Africa" country in 2005. The plane looks fine from the photo but did the pilot keep the cockpit door open throughout the flight? Either way the flight sounds one for the ages. I have been was thinking what was the most dangerous thing we have done in our travels and that flight must be among yours!
I've been through worse actually My scariest travel experience was probably a bus ride. I was alone in the minibus, the driver was driving much too fast on a narrow dark road and he was obviously in a bad mood. I thought I was going to die. /Ake
Thanks so much for starting to post trips taken before Travelblog... Not only does it preserve your history, but also gives you something to write about between your current trips.
Brings back memories Writing about the old journeys brings back memories. We had a really good time on that trip and it feels good to think about it once more. /Ake
Ethiopia I can imagine that digitising slides would have taken a bit of time, but now your photos are preserved for the future. I don't know if Harvey is hardcore or straight out tempting fate by continuing to fly in that plane! :)
If the pilots dare... Well if the pilots dare to fly the planes, well how bad can it then be? Perhaps that was how he thought about it. Besides, if you want to travel to some of the distant parts of Ethiopia you have few alternatives. You take the plane and hope for the best. /Ake
Friends meeting on the way to Jinka, Ethiopia Your Ethiopia 2005 Blog brings back fond memories of our visit to the Mursi tribes in Ethiopia's South Omo River Valley. It was a pleasure to met you and to remain friends for 14 years (so far). I appreciate your Swedish viewpoint on world events, national health, and royalty. I especially treasure memories of our visit (with my son) to Yemen and the Hadramout desert during 2006, when it was briefly accessible and relatively safe.
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
Angel Falls in Ven... full info
D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley
Excellent Ethiopia
I enjoyed reading along.