After our court day in Addis, we had a couple days in which we could be tourists so we hired a driver to take us westward to Winchee Caldera. We had a few hr drive into the lush highlands (7,000 – 8,000 ft elev). Then a 16 km hike down, around, a boat ride across the lake, than a hike up and out in a circuit hike through a variety of volcanic features. Along the entire drive children would run to the edge of the road to wave and yell “hello”, and “How are you?” Likely the only English they knew. The locals dont see too many forengis (white foreigners) so we are a novelty. Early on our trip I attempted to learn some Amaric (the official language) phrases, but quickly gave up as everywhere we went different languages were spoken as there are over 70 different languages spoken in Ethiopia. Another lesson I quickly learned was that Ethiopians dont like their picture taken so that was a challenge for me.
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