Ethiopia

Ethiopia is my favorite african country so far, really cheap and incredable looking women.They use a different calander than “normal” folk, there 8 years behind us so they only celebrated the mellinum 3 years ago. There clock is in 6 hours only (four times a day), so 8 in the evening there is actually 2 o’clock.

Typical looking Ethipoian countryside, mud huts go leor! They mix mud and cow shite, pretty serious combo when it comes to building.

Bit young to be roaming the streets with a machete?

Ethiopia is the home of coffee, and they make a big deal out of giving you a cupa. Sometimes it can take upto an hour to get a coffee because they have a big ceremony about making it. And it usually comes on a tray with random bits like popcorn or nuts.

Lake Tana,source of the blue nile. Theres loads of monasteries in the middle of the lake, woman cant visit some cause there just women, but as a man you can go where you wish!

One of the monasteries has the origional Ethiopian Orthadox Bible.

The roads in Ethiopia are crazy, if your on a bus longer than 2 hours your gonna see an overturned car/truck/bus.

Theres a huge rasta community in Ethiopia, haile selassie gave the rasta's loads of land and the potheads have been there ever since.This was haile selassie's big chair, this is where he kicked back and done emperor stuff.

Shashemene was the homeland for the rastas and this was the owner of a campsite there. His dreads were scraping on the ground when he didnt have they wrapped around his neck. He let us eat with his family so we got a real idea of how proper rastas are, his family of about 9 all have huge dreads, even his 4 year old has savage dreads.

Rasta greeting is a kinda knuckle punch and they all do it, in shashemene even the kids do it.

The big wedding.The lucky couple get to be chauffeured from a to b in this luxurious digger. This wedding was the talk of the town, apparently the guy is really wealthy. Thats some digger though wha?

Axum, really far out of the way and just not intresting. The arch of the covenant is there but its behind a curtain so you cant see it, so basically the main attraction is to pay into a church to see a curtain

The hyena man. Every day in Harar this guy feeds wild hyenas that come up to his house. Me and this hyena had a moment, kinda like lady and the tramp. The one with the beard is a right proper tramp.

Lucy, the link between apes and man. Google says its 3.2 million years old, thats loads of years.

Blue Nile Falls. In a moment of glory the Ethiopians built a dam so theres not much of a waterfall left.

Chat/qat/chot/mira and many other aliases, the mild narcotic thats everywhere in Ethiopia/Djibouti/Somalia/Yemen. You pick the leave and the them, takes about an hour before you feel anything. Its alot of effort cause your basically eating grass for hours, causes uncontrolable chatty'ness.

Intrigued by the chatty plant I needed to find the source, these are the tree bush things were it grows. Gobble gobble wobble gobble!!

I went to Dira Diwa for 2 days and stayed 13 days, mainly because of this room. Everyone on the east of Ethipoia eats qat from about 1pm till the night. Every hotel has rooms like these where everyone just sits back chewing and chin waggen. Its kinda like a crack den but a socially acceptable one.

Paddy I met in Egypt, he was the one that couldnt handle his sleeping tablets. Here he is again after a morning on the sauce. I think he may have puked a bit of qat into the craper?

Me doing my Indiana Jones thing.

The boys out floggen cow heads, entrepreneur skills up the ying yang. They made me pay for this photo da cowhead sellen whores.

Bindi the artist who only uses banana trees to make cool pictures. He thought us loads about rasta people and their beliefs.

Lalibela. Loads of churches carved into rock.

Coffee as good as it gets. This woman just roasted coffee beans and crushed them to make my coffee.

Beard update.