Robert and
I, with Emmy and Joost and my favourite driver Gètinèt, went to Bahir Dar, the
city at the southern end of Lake Tana, near the source of the Blue Nile and
near the famous Blue Nile falls. January 4 it was. 
It is a two days trip to get there, mostly because one has to cross the steep gorge of
the Blue Nile valley. It took us an hour
to wind down the hairpin road to the bridge down in the valley and another ¾ of
an hour to get up at the other end. 
Before and after that we were crossing
miles and miles, hectares and hectares of rich agricultural plateaus, where
Teff, the famous gluten free local rain, was being harvested. People were cutting the
Teff by hand an oxen were trampling/ threshing the Teff. Beautiful sights.
Impressive also
were all the people- hundreds - walking along the road, on their way to the weekly market.
We drove into a funeral, quite a beautiful occasion actually, very respectful.
Once we
arrived in the beautifully situated, but a bit run down Ghion hotel, we couldn’t
help bird spotting, as there were so many interesting birds present. Even Emmy –
who had no clue about birds before she came here - really got into the fun of bird
spotting.
Next morning, while having
breakfastfst, a fish eagle was having breakfast as well, on a ig fish, in a branch
overhanging our table. Never seen one so nearby!
Bahir Dar itself is a bog and prosperous city, full of Bajaj's
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