Dire Dawa, Ethiopia

... the remainder of the journey. Feeling peer pressured, we joined in. Eventually, 10 hours later, we arrived in Ethiopia's 2nd most populous town - Dire Dawa. It's a lovely wee town of only 160,000 (Addis is 5million, Dire Dawa is next in size!!) with ...

Detour to find spare parts.

... cultivated and densely populated. For a while the road ran along a knife-edge with beautiful views on both sides. Only near Dire Dawa was there a sudden transition to a much drier climate. This was the place where over 200 people recently died in flooding ...

I am currently in Dire Dawa in eastern Ethiopia. After a week in Addis I finally managed to leave along with two Norwegian girls. The 12 hour bus trip was horrible. For a start I had to get up at 4.30am to get to the bus station in time and secondly the ...