Today was a short-ish drive, really to position ourselves for the climb into the Bale Mts the next day. So we set off south on the main road where the traffic was very heavy, firstly with everything that moves on wheels and then to lorries and buses heading, one supposes, for the Red Sea ports. So, when we left that road at Mojo the traffic thinned and we were able to get a move on, rather than travel at the 25-30 mph crawl we had amongst the heavies. Acacia and scrub country from now on. We passed Lake K’ok’a and then Lake Ziway, both rather disappointing - just muddy coloured expanses of water in low lying land. Our objective was Lake Langano where the guide books advertised various lake-side “resorts” where we could possibly camp. We
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