Simien mountains

Well i am still in africa but i am now bloody freezing went spent the last 5 days above 3000 mtrs in the middle of the simien mountains. it felt like a right proper expedition with and mule a mule man and an armed escort apparently there are still bandits around in the mountains and one old guy with a gun is going to stop them all. the scout also doubles as a park ranger and as a wandering preacher so he went from shouting at small children up to no good to kissing the foreheads of any one who passed him.

it was really cool to get away from all the hussle for a while there is a very big begging culture over here and it gets to you after a while also as there are not many tourists the locals are facinated by any tourist that passes them by and insist on staring and shouting things like "you, you", "mister", "give me birr(money)\bottle\highland(mineral water)", they also have a habit of just following you and saying nothing or just constantlly saying hello, which after a couple of hours is quite annoying, but in the mountians its not quite as intense.

off to axom tommorrow in the far north there is a lot of talk about possible troubles with eratreia in the near future and there are apparently lots of tanks up there but the real attraction is that the ark of the covenant is supposedly there.