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Finally, around 2-3am we reached the airport. While standing in the queue we started to chat with a couple. It came out they had been in Sodo(the place we now are) for 1,5 years, working in a christian hospital. Now they came back to stay in Addis and learn the language.
We also met Bereket and Niguse and they took us to the hotel. At some point Nelson Mandela had been in the same hotel There we slept around 3h got a shower and were ready to move on.
There was a weird man behind the door who kept knocking and wanted to get in and the mosquitos loved me from the first sight. It was kind of an express sleep:)
In the breakfast table we tried one of their main dishes.
Then we thought, we’ll catch a bus right away and get going, but we waited, waited and waited more.Over 2h we were just sitting outside and chatted. Me and M wondered if that is their going right after breakfast. Turned out that the bus driver had had some trouble or smth but finally he came.
We didn’t go more than 20 minutes when he already stopped the bus and we went to get the lunch. We laughed and joked that this will be our whole trip to Sodo. We ate all together from one dish and with our hands. It was smth like a pancake and different fillings.
The toilet was washed before we entered it. A man took a bucket and wetted the floor and walls. The soap was made of ox’s fat and it’s bone powder.
The trip to Sodo took ca 6h.
The landscape was wonderful enough not to describe it here. I think this is something worth seeing by yourself:)
M thought that it would look more like India but it’s way better. Very clean, green and cosy. We both would probabably prefer living the traditional mud hut because it just looks nice:) Now we are in a guest house which looks like a Soviet time Sotchi guest house.
Btw, there are now snakes here.
L.